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  1. American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    Michael C. Linn. the poignant marble sculpture The Last of the Tribes by Hiram Powers; Albert Bierstadt's spectacular landscape Indians Spear Fishing; Georgia O'Keeffe's masterpiece Grey Lines with Black, Blue and Yellow; and the shimmering E.

  2. Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York

    Meredith J. Long Bobbie and John Nau Mrs. William S. (Jeanie) Kilroy The Vivian L. Smith Foundation Isla and Tommy Reckling Leslie and Brad Bucher This exhibition—the first retrospective on Phyfe in 90 years—reintroduces the artistic and influential master cabinetmaker to a contemporary audience. Portraits of his clients, and contemporary depictions of New York City street scenes and domestic interiors, provide a glimpse into Phyfe's milieu.

  3. Public Dress

    Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro and Zig Jackson emphasize a decisive moment for both the artist and the subject, whether in taking a picture or selecting what to wear. Many 20th-century photographers relied on their subjects’ attire to help craft a social narrative. The photographs by Carl Clark, Will van Overbeek, and Janice Rubin explore how people groom themselves for a special occasion.

  4. Unrivalled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art

    Wilson Macy’s The Japan Foundation Education programs for this exhibition are made possible by: The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. The last exceptional collection of Japanese art in private hands, the Powers Collection is renowned for its extraordinary scale and quality, and the exhibition provides a rare chance to see these remarkable examples in the Houston Official Energy Sponsor: General Electric Additional generous funding is provided by: Luther King Capital Management Jane and Raphael Bernstein / Parnassus Foundation     To honor the memory and the legacy of Isabel B.

  5. Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London

    Fayez Sarofim M. D. Anderson Foundation Fayez Shalaby Sarofim and Meredith J. Long Endowment for Exhibitions Mr. and Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff The highly acclaimed works on view represent the greatest artists of their periods, from Rembrandt van Rijn, Thomas Gainsborough, and Anthony van Dyck to Frans Hals, Joshua Reynolds, and J. M. W. Turner. The MFAH presentation is the first stop on a limited, four-venue U.S. tour that provides a rare opportunity for visitors to view superb paintings that have never before traveled outside the United Kingdom.

  6. Jennifer Steinkamp

    She uses 3-D digital animation software to create video projections that are at once vividly theatrical and seductively illusionistic. At the same time, the boughs gyrate in a sinuous dance, implying the larger earth cycles of wind, storm, and change. Mike Kelley was first exhibited at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in 2007. Her video installation Mike Kelley presents a single tree that passes through the four seasons: going from bare, to tender green and rose, to autumnal incandescence, and back to the barren boughs of winter.

  7. Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini

    Founded by collector Eduardo F. Costantini in 2001, Malba is the only museum in South America dedicated to collecting and exhibiting Latin American art from 1900 to the present.

  8. Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students, and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection

    Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), one of the most renowned and inventive of all Dutch artists, was a prolific draftsman. The show and its accompanying catalogue investigate the functions of drawings in Rembrandt’s studio and their value for him as a teacher. For Rembrandt, drawing documented the artist’s thinking, stimulating his imagination and conveying his skills as a keen observer of humanity and the world around him.

  9. 2012 Core Exhibition

    Raymond F. Wells and gifts in his memory Gifts in memory of Warren A. Hadler The Estate of Margaret H. Gillingham Gifts in memory of Laura Lee Blanton Lederer Foundation Meredith Long Cynthia and Robert McClain The Powell Foundation Karen S. Pulaski The Arch and Stella Rowan Foundation, Inc.

  10. Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst

    Elegance and Refinement is an unprecedented exhibition of more than 25 paintings that celebrate the exquisite work of a neglected master who had a significant impact on late-17th-century still-life painting. Jeff Fort The Hildebrand Fund Ann G. Trammell The catalogue for this exhibition receives generous funding from the Netherland-America Foundation. Born and trained in Delft, he spent most of his life in Amsterdam, but his paintings were forever transformed by the 10 years he spent abroad as a youth—first in France and then in Florence, at the Medici court.