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The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, performing on Thursday, January 24, in conjunction with Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol, brings a uniquely Scottish tradition to audiences across the world.

Artist Joyce J. Scott’s work lives at the intersection of craft histories, contemporary art, figurative sculpture, storytelling, and political activism.

The movie, screening on January 17, complements the sensibility of the art on view in the exhibition Always Greener: Seeing and Seeking Suburbia.

A recently catalogued record collection reveals the Masterson family’s previously little-known passion for theater and music.

El Techo de la Ballena, an avant-garde group of Venezuelan artists active during the 1960s, produced publications that promoted an anarchic, violent, and aggressive stance toward politics and culture. A few of these printed materials are on view in the exhibition Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955–1975.

The documentary Vincent van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing, screening on February 1 & 2, is an early complement to the MFAH exhibition of the artist’s work opening in March.

The story of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, has inspired many fictional tales. Although such stories are speculation, we can certainly tell from the paintings of the rulers, on view in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol, that they were quite different people.

2018 was one of our biggest years ever! Watch a look back at some of the numbers that added up to a great year. 

Visitors have an extraordinary opportunity to come face-to-face with the fascinating figures of British royalty in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol—including a few fascinating furry figures.

After extensive conservation and research, a painting that has been in the MFAH collection for decades is newly attributed to Spanish master Diego Velázquez.