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  1. Light upon Light: Radiance in the al-Sabah Galleries

    Sep 26, 2020 - Discover themes of light and radiance in the al-Sabah Collection, one of the greatest privately held collections of Islamic art in the world.

  2. So Fashionable! Portraits in the MFAH Collections

    Feb 15, 2019 - From New York to London and Milan, February is a month of Fashion Weeks around the world—the perfect time to look at a few impeccably dressed and accessorized women in works of art in the Museum’s permanent collection.  

  3. Dancing Your Roots with the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society

    Jan 18, 2019 - How do the traditional dances relate to the art on view in Tudors to Windsors? Since Queen Elizabeth II is the patron of our society, which was granted royal status in 1951, we feel a connection with the Windsors.

  4. Carpet Connoisseurship: How to Look Closely at the “Wagner Garden Carpet”

    Oct 29, 2018 - Even so, carpets aren’t exactly in the mainstream of art history, and many of us have never really looked closely at one—though you’ll find that the Wagner Garden Carpet is as stunning and carefully created as any painting.

  5. Snail Mail: A Conversation with MFAH Curator Anne Tucker (part 3 of 3)

    May 17, 2012 - Because they’re not meant to be precious, fine art objects. It’s not heavy-duty, it’s just fun. It’s kind of a footnote about communication: Visual people communicating with another visual person.

  6. The 20th Annual “Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography” opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on Tuesday, February 3

    Jan 27, 2015 - .; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Favrot Fund; and Gifts in honor of Beth Schneider. Press Contact  Laine Lieberman, associate publicist 713.639.7516 / llieberman@mfah.org

  7. Dangerous Curves: A “Sculpted in Steel” Chat with Ken Gross

    Mar 30, 2016 - Ken Gross, a car historian and former director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, lent his expertise to the exhibition Sculpted in Steel: Art Deco Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1929–1940 as guest co-curator.

  8. MFAH Presents the 24th Annual “Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography” Exhibition

    Jan 16, 2019 - .; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.

  9. Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life

    “I began with no training in the art,” she wrote. Condemned by some contemporaries for sloppy craftsmanship, she purposely avoided the perfect resolution and minute detail that most portrait photographers sought. spiritual content, the quality that separates them from the products of commercial portrait studios of her time and the fulfillment of her aspiration “to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art

  10. A Feast for the Eyes! Beautiful Tableware from Bayou Bend & Rienzi

    Nov 19, 2018 - soft-paste porcelain Location: Rienzi In 1776, Empress Catherine the Great of Russia commissioned an 800-piece service, or set of tableware, with a unique, turquoise-blue ground color and decorations inspired by Greek and Roman art