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December 14 marks the 131st birthday of Xul Solar, an Argentinean painter, poet, and inventor. The anniversary of his birth offers an opportunity to take a closer look at his intriguing work.

From scenes of ice and snow to objects that signify holiday and entertaining traditions, art at the MFAH shows how cultures around the world reflect on winter. Curatorial staff members share favorite works of art that relate to the season.

Every year, Rienzi brings to Houston a holiday from across the pond! Boxing Day at Rienzi is a day of games, tours, and family-friendly activities

In reality, King George IV was quite unlike the heroic, elegant figure in the portrait of him on view in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol, keeping many mistresses through two scandalous marriages.

Look closely and spot a cross-cultural connection in two exhibitions on view this fall and winter. Persian carpets, like the one on display in Garden Paradise, appear in portraits of British royals in Tudors to Windsors.

Learn more about a few of the most intriguing objects from the Bayou Bend and Rienzi collections made to serve special meals—and be sure to save room for dessert!

During the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, a display of recent acquisitions of medieval art offers you a moment to pause and reflect, surrounded by beautiful sacred objects.

“Informalism proposes the need for total creative freedom . . . crafting a new vision of the cosmos.” —poet and artist Juan Calzadilla, 1960

Houston audiences have the opportunity to come face-to-face with Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1540 portrait of Henry VIII in the galleries of Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol.

Curator Alison de Lima Greene discusses Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood, an exhibition that takes a fresh look at the common ground between two pioneering American artists.