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  1. Hitchcock Silents

    "The Hitchcock 9" is a joint venture of the BFI, Rialto Pictures/STUDIOCANAL, and Park Circus/ITV. Special ticket prices apply for these silent-film concerts. General admission is $15. MFAH members, students with ID, and senior adults receive a $3 discount. Hitchcock Silents are generously underwritten by Salle and James Vaughn, on behalf of The Vaughn Foundation. Bruce Goldstein of the Film Forum hired a group of actors and a sound effects expert and the soundtrack was recreated live at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood for the Turner Classic Movie Film Festival in April of 2013.

  2. Hear Her Voice! MFAH Films Presents the 25th Houston Iranian Film Festival

    Jan 11, 2018 - Breath (Nafas) tells the story of war and revolution through the eyes of Bahar, an imaginative 9-year-old girl who spends her time daydreaming as a way to make sense of the world’s harsh realities. “It is, first of all, a story about human beings, about love, dreams, hope. It’s a universal story about a young girl trying to get free.” “I wanted the world to understand all the limitations an Iranian girl faces.”

  3. Celebrate Kirk Douglas’s Centennial with MFAH Films!

    Dec 7, 2016 - Happy birthday to legendary actor Kirk Douglas, who turns 100 on December 9! To celebrate his centennial, we’re screening Lonely Are the Brave, a 1962 Western he cites as one of his personal favorites. Here’s a nice bit of trivia: This movie had its world premiere at a theater in Houston! One day we saw a lot of gear and cameras being set up, about half a mile from us.

  4. Happy Birthday! MFAH Films Celebrates Robert Frank

    Nov 1, 2016 - He turns 92 on November 9 and is still one of the coolest guys I know. Our Museum has had the privilege of working with this venerable photographer and filmmaker for years. First up is Don’t Blink – Robert Frank on November 5 and 6, direct by his longtime editor, Laura Israel. Of the film’s meandering style, Israel said, “That’s the way he works: He looks at his life and he tries to figure out how to have it unfold through his work in a way that is a bit of a mystery.”

  5. Habsburg Chic

    Aug 19, 2015 -  (9)   Known as a fashion icon and trendsetter, Empress Elisabeth radiated imperial luxury in this simple, black gown. The choice of fabric was deliberate: velvet symbolizes royalty.  (4)   Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain is dressed in a close-fitting bodice, false sleeves, and a hoop skirt called a guardainfante.   (2)   Symbols such as a wing and a herald’s staff indicate that this intricately carved cameo is a tiny portrait of the Roman god Mercury.

  6. Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West

    Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West / June 9–September 2, 2024 This exhibition is organized by the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. “I am a spectator, yet at the same time, I am a player.” He paints with porcupine quills and fine needles to render the precise details of delicate flowers or distant mountains, which are outlined in embossed gold. Born in India in 1974, Shaw spent most of his childhood in the Valley of Kashmir—a beautiful yet long-disputed territory marked by turmoil.

  7. Arte Concreta at the MFAH

    Feb 1, 2016 - , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 17, 1957, 9): Whereas the São Paulo concretistas were more interested in issues of movement in design and expression, the Rio de Janeiro group focused on the use of color and materials. Upon seeing the exhibition, art critic Ferreira Gullar wrote about the differences between the two groups in his article “I - O Grupo de São Paulo: I Exposição Nacional de Arte Concreta” (Jornal do Brasil, Suplemento Dominical On December 4, 1956, the Museu de Arte Moderna (Museum of Modern Art) in São Paulo, Brazil, inaugurated the Ia Exposição Nacional de Arte Concreta (First National Exhibition of Concrete Art), an event that brought together poets

  8. Buns of Steel: Joachim Wtewael and the Human Body

    Dec 31, 2015 - Hear more about this topic at James Clifton’s January 9 talk, “Buns of Steel,” and see “Pleasure and Piety” in the Beck Building through January 31, for free with general admission. They are a tour de force of the painter’s art. Following the conventions of late-16th-century art, Wtewael deploys the so-called figura serpentinata: a “serpentine figure” that fits into the curve of the letter “S” or writhes and wiggles like a flame.

  9. The 21st Annual Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography exhibition opens today at the MFAH

    Jan 12, 2016 - Hours 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 12:15–7 p.m. Sunday. Call 713.639.7300 or visit www.mfah.org for more information. Chavez high schools, along with students from Through The Lens, a district-wide afterschool program focusing on photography as a profession. Eye on Houston invites students to offer a glimpse into their daily lives, experiences, and personal stories. This year, the exhibition expands to include a greater number of Houston communities.

  10. Princes & Paupers: The Art of Jacques Callot

    Jan 8, 2013 - The symposium is from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30  p.m. on Saturday, March 16, and is followed by a reception. Admission to the symposium is free and open to the public with general museum admission, but tickets are required. The exhibition will have a monitor available to amplify specific passages of the impressive print The Fair at Impruneta, as much of the fine detail is only discernible with the use of a magnifying glass. The Art of Jacques Callot symposium is made possible by generous funding from the Faculty Initiatives Fund at the Rice University Humanities Research Center, George L. McLendon, Provost; and by the Samuel H.