Calendar Week of Saturday, January 18, 2025-Friday, January 24, 2025
Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples Through January 20, 2025
Exploring 3,000 years of spiritual belief and practice, the expansive Living with the Godsfeatures more than 200 objects from the MFAH collections, along with exceptional loans from museums and …
18 Jan Sat / 2025
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Margaret O'Brien-Nelson, Splashdown, 2023, oil on canvas.
“Margaret O’Brien-Nelson: Bodies of Water” Opening Reception
6 p.m.—8 p.m.Celebrate the opening of the Margaret O’Brien-Nelson: Bodies of Water exhibition.
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Art Crowd | “Gauguin in the World”
6:30 p.m.—8:30 p.m.Members of Art Crowd and ticketed guests have exclusive, after-hours access to Gauguin in the World.
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Ernest Cole: Lost & Found
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s latest documentary chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa. Cole’s early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed Black life under apartheid to the world.
19 Jan Sun / 2025
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Family Art-Making Studio 2025
1 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Create and learn in this workshop for families. Explore a work of art in the galleries, then make your own masterpiece in the studio.
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Family Zone
1 p.m.—4 p.m.Visit the MFAH Family Zone for engaging gallery activities with coloring sheets, colored pencils, books, and more.
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Nicholas Thomas
Lecture | Gauguin and Polynesia: A New Perspective
2 p.m.—3 p.m.Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas will discuss the works of Paul Gauguin and Oceania. Thomas is the author of Gauguin and Polynesia which offers a fresh view on the artist, not from the perspective of European art history, but from the contemporary vantage point of the region – Oceania.
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Ernest Cole: Lost & Found
2 p.m.—4 p.m.Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s latest documentary chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa. Cole’s early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed Black life under apartheid to the world.
20 Jan Mon / 2025
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Paul Gauguin, Trois tahitiens (Three Tahitians), 1899, oil on canvas, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, presented by Sir Alexander Maitland in memory of his wife Rosalind 1960.
Open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
11 a.m.—5 p.m.The Museum, Bayou Bend, and Rienzi are open on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.
22 Jan Wed / 2025
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Paul Gauguin, Trois tahitiens (Three Tahitians), 1899, oil on canvas, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, presented by Sir Alexander Maitland in memory of his wife Rosalind 1960.
Drop-in Tour | “Gauguin in the World”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.The MFAH is the only U.S. venue for this ambitious exhibition showcasing the work of French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin.
23 Jan Thu / 2025
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John Robert Cozens, View of Vietri and Raito, Italy, c. 1783, watercolor over graphite on cream laid paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Dena M. Woodall.
Drop-in Tour | “Picturing Nature”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.This tour highlights the exhibition Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond, which explores how the genre of landscape evolved during an era of immense transformation in Britain.
