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  1. Walk Up (Tab)

    As Byungsoo makes his way up the floors of the building, Hong Sangsoo fills these spaces with a profusion of everyday details spanning art, love, career, religion, diet, and home renovations.

  2. Gary Tinterow—Past Conversations

    Gary Tinterow returned to his native Houston from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to become director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in early 2012.

  3. Working in the Abstract: Rethinking the Literal

    Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas."

  4. MFAH@Home

    Conversations Exhibition & Gallery Tours Virtual Exhibitions Family Activities Community Celebrations Performances More to Explore: The MFAH CollectionsBrowse the Museum’s collections of nearly 80,000 works of art

  5. Cuban Cinema

    Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, these influential examples of “the Golden Age of Cuban Cinema” are well worth experiencing on the big screen, offering insights

  6. Virtual Cinema | New Documentary Paints a Riveting Portrait of Artist & Activist David Wojnarowicz

    Mar 23, 2021 - McKim creates a vivid evocation of the brilliance and chaos of Wojnarowicz’s life and the cultural ferment of the East Village art scene in the 1980s. —David Wojnarowicz In art history, the late 1970s and early 1980s in the East Village of downtown Manhattan is a fabled era, producing iconic artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Culture WarsWojnarowicz took the pain of living as an openly gay man with AIDS in an extremely homophobic era and fearlessly transmuted the pain into art that was dark, powerful, and sometimes breathtakingly beautiful.

  7. Norman Rockwell: American Freedom

    These works of art provided crucial aid to the war effort and took their place among the most indelible images in the history of American art. 2019–March 22, 2020  PublicationsRelated publications are available through the MFA Shop (713.639.7360) and the Museum’s Hirsch Library (713.639.7325).  Audio GuideThe optional audio guide delves deeper into selected works of art

  8. Lost & Found: The Iconic Royal Painting That Rose Again

    Oct 19, 2018 - When the restored painting returned to gallery walls, it was immediately a sensation again and one of the most popular works of art among National Portrait Gallery visitors. It was transferred to the National Gallery, where David Bomford—then a restorer at the National Gallery, and now the chairman of conservation and Audrey Jones Beck Curator of European art at the MFAH—appraised the painting with

  9. Spring Break 2015: 6 Ways to Visit the MFAH for Free

    Mar 4, 2015 - Admission at this house museum is free for ages 18 and younger. 6) Rienzi From sketching Sèvres porcelain in the house to taking snapshots in the gardens, satisfy your fine-art fancies at this house museum. So you have plenty of time to view the exhibitions and art collections. 4) The Libraries The Hirsch Library on the main campus, and Powell Library at Bayou Bend, offer visitors an opportunity to take a break for reading up

  10. Gallery Concert | "This Night So Still"

    Don’t miss this year’s opportunity to hear Cantare’s choral ensemble fill the Museum’s largest gallery of European art with powerfully evocative vocal warmth and dynamic interpretations of timeless classics and brilliant new scores Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art