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  1. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, installs “Portal” by Do Ho Suh, an “impossible” sculpture made from the negative form of a traditional Korean gate

    Feb 6, 2024 - Translated into a transparent shell, this domestic fragment becomes a liminal presence. You sense gravity, the density of weight, in a different way.”  “The gate or portal is a marker that invites the viewer to enter into a different physical or psychological dimension–outside/inside, or public/private,” Suh has stated.

  2. “Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway” Opens at the MFAH February 11, 2024

    Jan 8, 2024 - HOUSTON—January 8, 2024—For centuries, Bergen, one of the largest port cities in Scandinavia, was a thriving hub of global commerce, with a burgeoning export of fish, timber, and fur. That trade in turn spurred the development of a uniquely Norwegian approach to a timeless craft: gold and silver smithing. Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway is on view February 11–May 5, 2024.

  3. Simone Leigh’s Monumental Bronze Sculpture “Satellite” Is Installed at the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building of the MFAH

    Dec 4, 2023 - She has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Solomon R. The MFAH is the first U.S. museum to acquire and install this monumental bronze in a permanent display. About the Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonSpanning 14 acres in the heart of Houston’s Museum District, the Fayez S.

  4. MFAH Establishes a Gallery for Judaica, Opening December 3, 2023

    Nov 2, 2023 - HOUSTON—November 2, 2023—The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will open a new gallery for Judaica on December 3, 2023. It is funded by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. With the Herzstein Gallery, the MFAH joins a small group of North American encyclopedic museums with a commitment to collect, display, and study Judaica. 

  5. “Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism” Opens at the MFAH February 25, 2024

    Nov 2, 2023 - Additional generous support is provided by:Cherie and Jim FloresLinnet F. DeilyNancy Pollok GuineeCarla KnoblochRand GroupPolly and Murry BowdenBettie CartwrightVivian L. Smith FoundationRosanette S. CullenSamuel F.  Matisse in a Kimono (private collection). The exhibition also explores a personal story.

  6. MFAH Presents “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage” in February 2024

    Nov 2, 2023 - Russell H. and Rosalind C. Tiffany E. Barber, assistant professor of African American Art at UCLA; Dr. Anita N. MorrisWangechi MutuNarcissisterRashaad NewsomeLovie OliviaEbony G. PattersonHowardena PindellJamea Richmond-EdwardsDeborah RobertsLanecia A. RouseTschabalala SelfVitus ShellDevan ShimoyamaDavid ShrobeLorna SimpsonNyugen E.

  7. “Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence” Tours to the MFAH in November

    Sep 7, 2023 - The artist’s 2008 “Down” series featured a group of large-scale portraits of young Black men inspired by Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521–22). Wiley has said, “That is the archaeology I am unearthing: The specter of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown people all over the world.” He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, an MFA from Yale University, and honorary doctorates from the Rhode Island School of Design and San Francisco Art Institute.

  8. On View This Fall at the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building: Simone Leigh’s Iconic “Satellite,” Newly Completed for the MFAH; New Modern and Contemporary Exhibitions

    Aug 9, 2023 - A group of pictures by the pioneering Houston photojournalist Caroline Valenta—including a view of July 4, 1949, festivities at the dazzling, new Shamrock Hotel, the legendary Houston locale—caps a section devoted to midcentury He added, “When the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building opened in November 2020, we considered it a triumph—not only for completing the Fayez S. In addition, a suite of three thematic exhibitions drawn from the MFAH collections of modern and contemporary art will be on view beginning September 2.

  9. “Rembrandt to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Armand Hammer Collection” Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in October

    Jun 21, 2023 - D. Anderson FoundationMelza and Ted BarrCarol and Mike LinnAndrius Kontrimas / Sheppard MullinAnn G. TrammellSamuel F. GormanMr. and Mrs. Rodney H. MargolisMarguerite & David M. Highlights from the exhibition include: Titian Portrait of a Man in Armor (c. 1530), a remarkable portrayal by the leading painter of 16th-century Venice, epitomizing Titian’s gift for capturing not only the essence of a sitter “Armand Hammer had a fascinating career as a businessman and art collector that spanned most of the 20th century,” commented Gary Tinterow, Director, the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

  10. Landmark Exhibition “William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows” Travels to the MFAH, Surveying the Celebrated South African Artist’s Work

    May 10, 2023 - In Houston, major support is provided by:Bobbie Nau Additional generous support is provided by:John R. Eckel, Jr. up of complementary projections that reveal how everyday experience, experimentation, and associative play a critical role in Kentridge’s art making. , a video installation from 2018, as well as recent works that reaffirm the creative act as means of political engagement and transformative knowledge.