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  1. Art House Theater Day

    The MFAH joins dozens of venues in the inaugural Art House Theater Day, celebrating community-based, mission-driven movie theaters dedicated to the best cinematic experience. Find out more.

  2. For the Love of Art

    Apr 24, 2012 - I have an interest in art and think it is a fun way to share ideas with children. CZ: I've had a passion for art all my life. CZ: The blessing I have to touch students' lives in some way in their approach to art. For elementary-age students, I love touring art that is especially awe-inspiring and garners an immediate response from the students.

  3. Concert | “The Art of Judaica”

    Art from the MFAH collections and loans from other Houston collections are included. Art musicians to develop the skills to become passionate, forward-thinking, community-focused “citizen artists” who reimagine the traditional notions of making music and contribute to society through the transformative power of their art

  4. Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher

    Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher Presented by Doris Schattschneider in conjunction with the exhibition Virtual Realities: The Art of M.C. Escher from the Michael S. Sachs Collection M.C. Combining her dual interests in mathematics and art, she is the author of M.C. Tickets to Virtual Realities: The Art of M.C. Escher may be purchased separately. On Thursdays, general admission to the MFAH is free, and the Museum is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

  5. Picturing the Senses in European Art

    The five senses as a theme in art, however, did not appear until the medieval period, when sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste were often associated with vice. Comprising works selected primarily from the collections of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and the MFAH, Picturing the Senses in European Art offers an opportunity to see some works that are not often on display and to

  6. Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century

    Explore the exhibition with MFAH curator Edgar Peters Bowron in Antiques & Fine Art Magazine. This sweeping survey, co-organized with the Musée du Louvre in Paris, showcases some 150 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and works of decorative art.  Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century explores, from various points of view, how the renewal of classical taste found its roots in ancient sources, and how painters, sculptors, designers, artisans, and

  7. Pasted Papers: The Art of Collage

    The art of collage has a long and distinguished history. The 20 works in this exhibition explore the art of collage, a term derived from the French verb coller (to glue). Soon after, other modern art movements, including Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, worked with collage.

  8. Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil: The Adolpho Leirner Collection

    and Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Modern Art.  Expanding its major commitment to the art of Latin America, the MFAH acquired the celebrated Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art. Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil is organized to reveal the innovation and originality achieved by the various Brazilian Constructive tendencies as well as to illustrate specific traits that separate them from related

  9. The Xuzhou Collection of Buddhist Art

    The Xuzhou Collection of Buddhist Art is a private collection of masterpieces, shown in public for the first time at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

  10. Reinstallation of MFAH Galleries for European Art

    Jun 6, 2022 - in 16th-Century Venice; 17th-Century Italian and French Baroque Art; 17th-Century Dutch Art; and 17th-Century Spanish and Viceregal Art. Notably, three galleries trace the relationship between 17th-century Spanish art and the art of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in the 17th and 18th centuries, exploring the relationship between European art and the art of the Americas The 11 galleries feature some 200 objects, organized across nine groupings: The Medieval Era; Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art; 16th-Century Roman Art; 16th-Century Netherlandish and German Art; Renaissance Portraits; Art