MFAH Blogs: Recent Posts
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31 OctWed / 2012
When did your interest in film begin?
When I was 8 years old, my grandfather, Adolph, used to take me to the old original Meyerland Theater and AMC Shamrock Six and I would sneak my tape recorder in and record the audio of the films that I would see. Then we would stop at a drugstore and pick up stacks of typing paper and I would draw out copious amounts of images to correlate ...
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26 OctFri / 2012
"Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles" chronicles a family’s nearly 400-year history of wealth, inheritance, and titles. On November 14 the Rienzi and Bayou Bend book club hosts discussions about the book, with a surprise appearance by a guest close to the family. . . .
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23 OctTue / 2012
If you went blind tomorrow, would you still visit the art museum? If you couldn’t see art, would you still be able to have a positive art experience? The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, develops programming for the visually impaired as a part of Art Beyond Sight, an initiative started by Art Education for the Blind.
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21 OctSun / 2012
This weekend, the museum presents a revival of three French movie classics from the 1970s and 1980s. The film series "Blier/Depardieu" celebrates the collaboration between the much-lauded writer-director Bertrand Blier and actor Gérard Depardieu.
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19 OctFri / 2012
One of our current residents at the Dora Maar House, Anne Vilsbøll is a Danish painter, author and curator. While at the Dora Maar House, Vilsbøll continues to work on her series of paintings “Les Doyennes and Les Doyens de Provence,” portraits of people between 80-100 years old. As she searches out, meets and talks with some of the oldest citizens of the village, she returns to Dora Maar full of awe and enthusiasm....