“Armchair Travel” Brings World-Class Art to Your Living Room
Kick back in your favorite armchair and get ready for an art-filled summer tour—from your home.
This year’s “Exhibition on Screen” film series charts new terrritory as it goes online via Virtual Cinema. To get the scoop, we checked in with Margaret Mims, senior manager in the learning & interpretation department. “We’ve always called our annual series Armchair Travel,” she said, “because you travel all around the world to enjoy up-close tours of museum exhibitions in stunning high-definition.
“These films explore the exhibition process, offer insightful commentary from curators and leading art historians, and provide revealing biographies of the artists. It’s a fulfilling experience that makes you long for more! So we’re delighted to present a dozen different movies this season.”
Summer Travel: 2020 Edition
Browse the Armchair Travel lineup below, and choose your point of departure. The films are all available through September 30. Each ticket is $12—or $10 with the exclusive MFAH discount code (MFAHSUMMER678) for $2 off. Your purchase provides access for 48 hours, so watch away!
► Michelangelo: Love and Death
► Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait
► The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
► Canaletto and the Art of Venice
► Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood
► Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
► Vincent van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing
About “Exhibition on Screen”
Working with top international museums and galleries, “Exhibition on Screen” creates exhibition-based art films for the cinema. These documentaries bring immersive experiences of the world’s most-loved art, accompanied by expert observations from historians and arts critics. The MFAH often presents sceenings in Brown Auditorium Theater, and now many of the films are available for streaming on demand. LEARN MORE
Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1511–12, Vatican City, Rome.
Lucian Freud, Reflection (Self-Portrait), 1985, oil on canvas, private collection. © The Lucian Freud Archive, Bridgeman Images
Hieronymus Bosch, The Ship of Fools, c. 1500–1510, the Louvre, Paris.
Canaletto, Venice: The Basin of San Marco on Ascension Day, c. 1733–34, Royal Collection Trust. © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017
Francisco de Goya, Self-Portrait in the Studio, c. 1790–95, oil on canvas, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.
Thomas Hardy, Portrait of Joseph Haydn, 1791, oil on canvas, Royal College of Music Museum.
Édouard Manet, The Railway, 1873, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer.
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.
Paul Cézanne, Self Portrait in a Bowler Hat, 1885–86. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Photograph: Ole Haupt
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat, 1887, oil on canvas, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Edvard Munch, The Scream, c. 1910, tempera on board, Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Women of Avignon), 1907, oil on canvas, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, by exchange. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018
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