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Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection
February 21 —May 9, 2010
Alice Neel: Painted Truths
March 21 — June 13, 2010
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
May 16 — August 8, 2010
The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture
June 6 — August 29, 2010
Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, The Photography of Ishimoto Yasuhiro
June 20 — September 12, 2010
German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt
September 12 — December 5, 2010
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
September 19, 2010 — January 9, 2011
New Permanent Galleries:
The Arts of China (Summer 2010)
The Arts of Japan (Winter 2010)
Opening Exhibitions
Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made After 1960 from the MFAH Collection
February 21 — May 9, 2010
Audrey Jones Beck Building
Some 200 works from the MFAH´s significant international collection have been selected to explore key moments in the dynamic history of post-1960 photography. Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection examines, on a global scope, the course of post-1960 photography. The show explores "ruptures," or new directions and approaches, in photographic media, created in response to the artistic movements that emerged post-1960, such as Conceptualism and Performance art, as well as the development of new ways of seeing within the photographic community. The exhibition is organized according to the following five thematic sections: self-performance; directorial mode and constructed environments; the transformation of the city; new landscape; and memory and archive. Richard Misrach, William Eggleston and Lewis Baltz will be given a special focus in this exhibition of more than 80 artists. The exhibition will be on view during the Fotofest 2010 Biennial and offers historical perspective on the contemporary works that will be displayed at over 200 participating Fotofest exhibition spaces citywide. Organized by Yasufumi Nakamori, Assistant Curator of Photography, MFAH.
Alice Neel: Painted Truths
March 21 — June 13, 2010
Caroline Wiess Law Building
One of the great American painters of the 20th century, Alice Neel (1900—1984) is best known for her psychologically acute portraits. Intimate, casual, direct and personal, satirical at times, Neel´s portraits chronicle the social and economic diversity of mid-20th-century American life. A self-proclaimed "collector of souls," Neel often painted the celebrated artists and writers of her day, including Andy Warhol, Frank O´Hara, David Bourdon, and Dore Ashton. This exhibition, the first major presentation of Neel´s work in a decade, will offer a formalist perspective, and will examine themes that Neel revisited throughout her career, including her social and political commitment, her stylistic evolution and her reversal of the typical artist/model relationship, gender roles, maternity, and old age. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Alice Neel: Painted Truths will include approximately 67 paintings. The presentation will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, published by the MFAH and distributed by Yale University Press, with four major essays by art historians, as well as three shorter appreciations by artists influenced by Neel, and quotations from the artist. The exhibition is co-curated by Barry Walker, MFAH Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art and Prints & Drawings, and Jeremy Lewison, former Director of Collections of the Tate Gallery and now an independent curator and advisor to the estate of Alice Neel. After its debut at the MFAH, Alice Neel will tour to the Whitechapel Gallery, London, July 8—September 17, 2010, and the Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden, October 10, 2010—January 2, 2011. The Houston presentation receives generous funding from the MFAH Benefactors of American Art: Cornelia and Meredith Long, Fayez Sarofim, and Ann Gordon Trammell.
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
May 16 — August 8, 2010
Caroline Wiess Law Building
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam is the first major exhibition dedicated to Sufism, a historic and mystical branch of Islam that has appealed to Muslims and non-Muslims alike for several hundred years. Artists from the medieval Islamic period through the present day have produced extraordinary works of art inspired by and incorporating Sufi concepts and the words of poets such as Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273) and Hafez (d. 1390). Light of the Sufis focuses on some of the most important Sufi ideas and practices that found expression through the arts of the Islamic world, beginning with light, which symbolizes both God and enlightenment. The works featured in the exhibition—some 40 objects from public and private collections—include furnishings used for lighting; representations and attributes of Sufi mystics; illustrated, illuminated, and laser-etched manuscripts of Sufi poetry; and contemporary works inspired by Sufi principles. Dating from as early as the ninth century to as late as the twenty-first century, these examples demonstrate the everlasting impact of mystical ideas on artistic practice and explore the many ways in which Islamic concepts inspired and continue to inspire art in the Muslim world. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Light of the Sufis will be accompanied by a catalogue published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and distributed by Yale University Press. This book will be the first scholarly study of Sufism through its visual and artistic manifestations, and will be co-authored by the curator of the exhibition, Dr. Ladan Akbarnia, Hagop Kevorkian Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and Dr. Francesca Leoni, MFAH assistant curator of the arts of the Islamic world. The Houston presentation and installation is organized by Dr. Leoni.
The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture
June 6 — August 29, 2010
Audrey Jones Beck Building
A painter, sculptor and humorist of the American West, Charles M. "Charlie" Russell (1864—1926) is familiar to millions around the world. This first major retrospective of his work presents an overview of his subjects: cowboys and outlaws; cultural collisions and cooperation in the West; Native American men and women; trappers and hunters; and wildlife and wilderness. The exhibition will reveal that Russell´s variety of subject matter and range of expression reveal a much more complex artist than typically recognized, one who was in many ways dedicated to depicting the marginalized peoples—outsiders, prodigals, those on the fringes of society—in American culture of his time. Curated by Joan Troccoli, the exhibition is co-organized by the Denver Art Museum and the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and travels to Houston as the final venue. Emily Ballew Neff, MFAH Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, will organize the MFAH presentation.
Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, The Photography of Ishimoto Yasuhiro
June 20 — September 12, 2010
Audrey Jones Beck Building
Ishimoto Yasuhiro (b. 1921), trained by Harry Callahan at the Institute of Design (or "New Bauhaus") in Chicago, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential Japanese photographers of his generation in the development of postwar Japanese photography. Among his most celebrated bodies of work are the photographs he took during 1953 and1954 that infuse the 17th-century Imperial villa of Katsura, in Kyoto, with a Modernist esthetic. But for 50 years these images have been known only as they were painstakingly sequenced and cropped for publication in the landmark 1960 book, Katsura: Creation and Tradition in Japanese Architecture, by Ishimoto´s collaborator, architect Tange Kenzo. On the 50th anniversary of that publication, the MFAH will present 70 of these iconic pictures as Ishimoto had intended them to be seen, in an exhibition that will explore the nuanced and complex relationship between architecture and photography and its profound impact on the public´s interpretation of Japanese "tradition" in Modern architecture. Yasufumi Nakamori, MFAH Assistant Curator of Photography, will organize the presentation at the MFAH, on view June 20 — September 12, 2010.
German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt
September 12 — December 5, 2010
Audrey Jones Beck Building
German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt will feature more than sixty paintings by the remarkable artists Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, and Max Slevogt—celebrated as the "triumvirate of German Impressionism"—along with a small selection of works by Carl Blechen, Adolph Menzel, and Wilhelm Leibl. This beautiful exhibition serves as an introduction to Impressionist tendencies in 19th-century German art. Impressionism is considered a fundamentally French stylistic development, but the international reputation of Paris as the world´s leading art center inevitably brought with it the dissemination of this style to other countries. Art students from all over Europe flocked to the Paris to be trained at the academy or one of the many private studios, and despite the strained political relationship with France, German interest in the artistic developments in France was particularly lively. Max Liebermann (1847-1935), who has been called "the German Manet," lived in Paris for five years and subsequently became the leader of a generation of German painters who were inspired by the works of their French colleagues Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, and van Gogh. Although none of the three were exclusively landscape artists, their landscapes outline the development of a particular kind of German Impressionism. Organized in partnership with the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, this will be the first major exhibition in the United States devoted to this subject in thirty years. Helga Aurisch, associate curator of European art, and Edgar Peter Bowron, Audrey Jones Beck Curator of European Art, will coordinate the Houston presentation.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
September 19, 2010 — January 9, 2011
Audrey Jones Beck Building
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria makes its U.S. premiere at the MFAH. The Kingdom of Ife (pronounced EE-fay) flourished from the 12th to 15th centuries in what is now southwestern Nigeria. Dynasty and Divinity comes to Houston just as Nigeria celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence on October 1, 1960. The exhibition features superb examples of brass, copper, stone, and terra-cotta Ife sculpture, drawn entirely from the magnificent collections of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria. MFAH curator Frances Marzio will oversee the presentation in Houston. Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria is co-organized by the Museum for African Art, New York, and Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain, in collaboration with the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria. The exhibition has been supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. In Houston, generous funding is provided by the Wallace Foundation and Mrs. Linnet F. Deily.
New Permanent Galleries for The Arts of China and Japan
June 2010 and December 2010, respectively
Caroline Wiess Law Building
The MFAH´s four-year initiative to create new, permanent galleries for the arts of Asia will be completed in 2010, with the opening of the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery in June 2010 and the opening of The Arts of Japan Gallery in December 2010. Arts of China will present works from 3,000 B.C. to the present day. The objects in the Arts of Japan will cover four key areas of artistic creation: ceramics, religious art, literati art, and art inspired by women and encompass the Neolithic period through contemporary art. The Arts of Korea gallery opened first in December 2007, and was followed by openings for the Indonesian Gold galleries and The Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India Gallery in December 2008 and May 2009, respectively.
Continuing Exhibitions
Sargent and the Sea
February 14 — May 23, 2010
Audrey Jones Beck Building
American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent (1856—1925) is best known for his glamorous society portraits, and much of his art has been well documented in exhibitions and publications. Sargent and the Sea is the first to examine the little-explored maritime paintings and drawings that Sargent produced in Europe during the first five years of his career. Comprised of an intimate selection of 36 oil paintings, 23 drawings and watercolors, and one scrapbook—all drawn from a wide range of public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe—the exhibition centers on Sargent´s two well-known pictures from this period—Setting Out to Fish and Fishing for Oysters at Cancale—and several related studies. In addition, Sargent and the Sea will showcase recent discoveries of several important seascapes and will feature many rarely exhibited works in watercolor and pen-and-ink to reveal Sargent´s artistic process, his passion for the sea, and his expert knowledge of seafaring. The presentation´s companion catalogue, to be published by Yale University Press, includes art-historical essays by noted Sargent scholars. Sargent and the Sea is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Emily Ballew Neff, MFAH Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, serves as curator in Houston. The final venue is the Royal Academy of Arts, London, where the exhibition is on view July 10 — September 26, 2010. Sargent and the Sea is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and made possible by the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Christie´s, The Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Inc., and Altria Group, Inc. Additional support for the exhibition is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius and The Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation. In Houston, this exhibition receives funding from Nancy and Rich Kinder; Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Hevrdejs; Luther King Capital Management; Cherie and Jim Flores; Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Reckling III; Carla Knobloch; Carol and Michael C. Linn; Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Schissler, Jr.; Isabel B. and Wallace S. Wilson; Ann and John Bookout; and Lilly and Thurmon Andress. Additional generous funding is provided by the MFAH Benefactors of American Art: Cornelia and Meredith Long; Bobbie and John Nau; Fayez Sarofim; and Ann Gordon Trammell. Education programs for this exhibition are made possible by the Favrot Fund.
Houston´s Sargents
February 14 — May 9, 2010
Audrey Jones Beck Building
Outside of New York and Boston, Houston has the largest holding of Sargent paintings in private hands in the United States. Houston´s Sargents showcases paintings from the private collections of Houstonians, including some of Sargent´s finest work. From paintings of a Spanish courtyard and a view of Venice to the famous society portraits on which Sargent built his career, Houston´s Sargents presents a broad spectrum of the artist´s work to complement the exhibition Sargent and the Sea, on view at the MFAH February 14 — May 23, 2010. This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Generous funding is provided by Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Prendergast in Italy
February 14 — May 9, 2010
Audrey Jones Beck Building
This exhibition brings together for the first time the unparalleled bodies of work that American Impressionist Maurice Prendergast (1858—1924) produced during two trips to Italy, in 1898 and 1911. For centuries, aspiring artists flocked to Italy to study the art and architecture of the ancient world and the work of the Old Masters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. In the 19th century, American artists were especially attracted to what writer Henry James called the "time-mellowed harmonies" of Italy, and of Venice in particular. For Prendergast, the sites of Venice provided a spectacle of color and pattern that he transformed into stunning and bold modernist interpretations, catapulting him into the front ranks of American artists. Prendergast in Italy will feature approximately 70 watercolors, plus monotypes and related oils, sketchbooks, letters, and Japanese prints, drawn from a number of public and private collections, as well as from the Williams College Museum of Art (home of the Prendergast Archive and Study Center) and the Terra Foundation of American Art (the second-largest repository of Prendergast holdings). The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, published in English and Italian by Merrell Publishers in London. Prendergast in Italy is curated by Nancy Mowll Mathews, Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art, Williams College Museum of Art; and Elizabeth Kennedy, Curator of Collection, Terra Foundation for American Art. Emily Ballew Neff, Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the MFAH, will organize the Houston presentation of the exhibition, following its showings at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. The exhibition is organized by the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in partnership with The Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois. Terra Foundation for American Art is the lead sponsor with additional funding from the Eugénie Prendergast Endowment. This exhibition receives generous funding from Isabel B. and Wallace S. Wilson; Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Hevrdejs; Carol and Michael C. Linn; and Ann and John Bookout. Additional funding is provided by the MFAH Benefactors of American Art: Cornelia and Meredith Long; Bobbie and John Nau; Fayez Sarofim; and Ann Gordon Trammell.
The Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India Permanent Installation
Ongoing, additional galleries to open throughout 2010
Caroline Wiess Law Building
The expansion of the museum´s Arts of Asia collections continues with the opening of the Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India Permanent Installation. The third of five new galleries devoted to Asian art, the beautifully designed space features painting, sculpture, and photography spanning more than 2,500 years of cultural history. This ambitious MFAH initiative began in 2007 with the unveiling of Arts of Korea Gallery. The Indonesian Gold Gallery opened in 2008, and galleries for the arts of China and Japan will follow in the spring of 2010. In each gallery, maps and other interpretive materials enable visitors to learn more about the various influences that inform the art. Additionally, an array of educational programs promote cultural understanding. Many of the gallery entrances will feature a site-specific piece created by a leading contemporary artist. Following the Asian tradition of marking entrances to sacred spaces with gates and grand portals that serve as transitional zones, the portals to the new galleries will serve as transitions between the present and the past. Do-Ho Suh and Anish Kapoor are among the artists commissioned to create these unique entrances. The Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India Gallery is made possible by support from Nidhika and Pershant Mehta; Dr. Durga and Sushila Agrawal; Manmeet and Prithvipal Singh (Paul) Likhari; Dr. Ayyampully and Shantha Raghuthaman; Sesh and Prabha Bala; Dr. and Mrs. Ninan T. Mathew; Suneeta and Nanik Vaswani; Hari and Anjali Agrawal; Monjula and Ravi Chidambaram; Abhishek, Anuradha, Anupma, Vijay, and Ashok Dhingra; Raka and Jay Gohel; Vijay/Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation; Aku, Meena, Rachna, Anant, and Girija—Karat 22 Jewelers; Vahid, Cathy, and Shirin Kooros; N.S. Vatsa Kumar; Dr. Srinivasa and Mrs. Jittu Madhavan; Jugal and Raj Malani; Drs. Sumant and Shaila Patel; Usha and Kumara Peddamatham; Satish C. Reddy and Dr. Sreelatha Reddy; Patrick Welder Robinson Charitable Trust; Milton D. Rosenau, Jr., and Dr. Ellen R. Gritz; Dr. Mani and Anuradha Subramanian; and Rama and Geetha Rau Yelundur .
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MFAH Collections
Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles. The encyclopedic collection of the MFAH numbers more than 59,000 works and embraces the art of antiquity to the present. Featured are the finest artistic examples of the major civilizations of Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa. Particularly strong are the collections of Italian Renaissance painting, French Impressionism, photographs, American and European decorative arts, African and Pre-Columbian gold, American art, and European and American paintings and sculpture from 1945 to the present. Notable additions to the collections in this decade include Rembrandt van Rijn´s Portrait of a Young Woman (1633); the Heiting Collection of Photography; a major suite of Gerhard Richter paintings; an array of important works by Jasper Johns; a rare, 2nd-century Hellenistic bronze Head of Poseidon/Antigonos Doson; major canvases by 19th-century painters Gustave Courbet and J.M.W. Turner; distinguished work by leading 20th- and 21st-century Latin American artists; and the Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art.
MFAH Campus
The MFAH collections are presented throughout institutional complex. Together, these facilities provide a total of 300,000 square feet of space dedicated to the display of art. The MFAH comprises:
Two major museum buildings: the Caroline Wiess Law Building, designed by Mies van der Rohe; and the Audrey Jones Beck Building, designed by Rafael Moneo
Two facilities for the Glassell School of Art: one with studio spaces for children and another with studio spaces for adults
Two house museums that exhibit decorative arts: Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens features American works; Rienzi features European works
The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, created by Isamu Noguchi
Eighteen acres of public gardens
HOURS AND ADMISSION
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON: The Audrey Jones Beck Building is located at 5601 Main Street, adjacent to the Caroline Wiess Law Building at 1001 Bissonnet Street. Hours are Tuesday—Wednesday, 10 a.m.—5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.—9 p.m.; Friday—Saturday, 10 a.m.—7 p.m.; and Sunday, 12:15—7 p.m. The museum is closed Monday, except select Monday holidays. General admission is $7 for adults; $3.50 for students, senior adults, and youths ages 6—18; free for children 5 and younger. Admission is free for everyone on Thursday, courtesy of Shell Oil Company Foundation; and on the first Sunday of the month, courtesy of Target. Admission is free on Saturday and Sunday for children 18 and under with a Houston Public Library Power Card, Harris County Public Library Card, or any public library card. Some exhibitions may have a special admission fee. Call 713-639-7300 for more information in English or 713-639-7379 for information in Spanish. TDD/TTY for the hearing impaired: 713-639-7390.
Group Sales Admissions
For custom group tours and ticket information, contact Paula Hobbie, Group and Event Sales Manager, at phobbie@mfah.org.
Parking at the MFAH
Free lots: entrances on Bissonnet Street and Main Street
Garage: entrance on Binz Street
BAYOU BEND COLLECTION AND GARDENS: The American decorative arts wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is located at 1 Westcott Street. Ninety-minute guided tours begin every 15 minutes, September—July: Tuesday—Friday, 10—11:30 a.m. and 1—2:45 p.m.; Saturday, 10—11:15 a.m. Reservations are suggested. Self-guided audio tours: 1—5 p.m. Saturday—Sunday (last admission 4 p.m.). In August, only self-guided audio tours are offered: Tuesday—Saturday, 10 a.m.—5 p.m.; Sunday, 1—5 p.m. Call 713-639-7750 for admission prices, reservations, and other information.
RIENZI: The European decorative arts wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is located at 1406 Kirby Drive. One-hour, docent-led tours are available by reservation Wednesday—Friday every 30 minutes, 10 a.m.—3 p.m. On Saturday, 30-minute tours, no reservations required, are available 10 a.m.—4 p.m. On Sunday, Rienzi offers an open-house format with reduced family rates, 1—5 p.m. Rienzi is closed in August. Call 713-639-7800 for admission prices, reservations, and other information.
THE GLASSELL SCHOOL OF ART: Monday—Saturday, 10 a.m.—5 p.m.; Sunday, 12 noon—5 p.m. Free admission. 5101 Montrose Boulevard, 713-639-7500.
THE GLASSELL JUNIOR SCHOOL OF ART: Monday—Friday, 9 a.m.—5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.—3 p.m.; selected Sundays, 2—4 p.m. Free admission. 5100 Montrose Boulevard, 713-639-7700.
THE LILLIE AND HUGH ROY CULLEN SCULPTURE GARDEN: Open daily, 9 a.m.—10 p.m. Free admission. Bissonnet Street at Montrose Boulevard, 713-639-7300.
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