Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Wednesday, January 19, 2022-Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Floating World: A.A.Murakami Through September 21, 2025
An immersive fusion of the technical and the natural by artist duo A.A.Murakami, Floating Worldtransports you to an ethereal world of amorphous bubbles, futuristic sculptures, swirling fog rings, and …
11 May Sun / 2025
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Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet!)
3 p.m.—4:30 p.m.Chicken for Linda! is a sweet and funny story the whole family will enjoy: a film that speaks of childhood from a child’s perspective, detailed in vibrant hand-painted images and told with humor, music, mischief and poetry.
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The Art of Nothing (L’art d’être heureux)
5 p.m.—7 p.m.A self-absorbed conceptual artist moves to a seaside village hoping to reinvent himself. Embraced by the town’s quirky creative community—including a flirtatious gallerist and a congenial plein-air painter—he finds himself pulled into interpersonal dramas as well as jokes that may be at his own expense.
15 May Thu / 2025
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Designed by Bernard van Orley, woven by Willem and Jan Dermoyen, Surrender of King François I, c. 1528–31, wool, silk, gold, and silver thread, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples. Image © Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
Drop-in Experience | “Knights in Shining Armor”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Visit Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries with docents available in the gallery to enhance your experience. This exhibition showcases dynamic 16th-century textiles, suits of intricate armor, and stunning ceremonial weapons.
16 May Fri / 2025
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Bach Society Houston
Bach Society Houston | “Knights in Shining Armor”
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Enjoy music composed during the era of Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries. Bach Society Houston presents a 30-minute concert of madrigals and chansons, which is performed twice.
17 May Sat / 2025
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Amy Von Lintel
Transgression and Independence: Georgia O’Keeffe and Tamara de Lempicka
2 p.m.—3 p.m.Presented to complement the exhibition Tamara de Lempicka, this lecture explores the pioneering women artists who shaped the 20th-century art world.
