Calendar Week of Thursday, March 28, 2024-Wednesday, April 3, 2024
![Marius Hammer, Viking Dragon Boat, c. 1900, silver and enamel](https://static.mfah.com/images/marius-hammer-viking-dragon-boat.665174397226099502.jpg?width=540&height=540&bgcolor=blur)
Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway Through May 5, 2024
Remarkable objects from three prestigious collections of art, craft, and design come to the United States for the first time, on exclusive loan. Spanning the 16th to early 20th century, this …
28 Mar Thu / 2024
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Drop-in Tour | The Arts of Asia
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.On this guided tour, discover the cultures of China, the Himalayas, India, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia in the Museum’s art collections.
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2023–2024 Core Residents, left to right: (top row) Carlos Vielma, Yifan Jiang, Erin Holland, Max Tolleson; (bottom row) Umico Niwa, Saúl Hernández-Vargas, Valentin Diaconov, larí garcía
Core Program | Open Studios 2024
4 p.m.—9 p.m.Drop by the Core Program studios to see what the fellows have been working on this year.
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The Artist’s Daughter, Oil on Canvas
5 p.m.—6 p.m.A visit to her estranged father’s exhibition of self-portraits renews the filmmaker’s relationship with him, but not the way she expected.
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Happy Hour Thursday
5 p.m.—8 p.m.Happy Hour Thursday is the place to be! Meet your friends at the MFAH for the best night of the week.
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Art Bites | The Masks of Africa
6 p.m.—6:30 p.m.A little art can go a long way! Visit the galleries for a snippet of art appreciation.
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Henri Matisse, Open Window, Collioure, 1905, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Art Encounters | “Vertigo of Color”
6 p.m.—8 p.m.This Art Encounters session invites you to participate in a collaboration between visual art, music, and dance inspired by the exhibition Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism.
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Camp Logan, Houston, August 23, 1917, Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, August 24, 1917; courtesy of the artist.
FotoFest | Wendel A. White on “Difficult Histories”
6:30 p.m.—8 p.m.Wendel A. White discusses the photographs in his FotoFest exhibition Difficult Histories—Selections from Red Summer and Manifest.
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Art Bites | The Masks of Africa
7 p.m.—7:30 p.m.A little art can go a long way! Visit the galleries for a snippet of art appreciation.
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Drop-in Tour | “Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence”
7 p.m.—8 p.m.Take a guided tour of the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence.
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Martha Liebermann: A Stolen Life (Martha Liebermann – Ein gestohlenes Leben)
7:30 p.m.—9 p.m.An upper-class widow in Berlin could never have imagined having to leave her beloved homeland at the age of 85. As a German Jew in 1943, however, her only choice is to go abroad or wait to be deported to a concentration camp.