Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Saturday, April 6, 2024-Friday, April 12, 2024


Celestial Conch Shell with Skulls
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 …

31 Oct Thu / 2024

  • Exhuma Film Poster
    Exhuma (Pamyo)
    7 p.m.—9:15 p.m.

    A wealthy family hires a renowned shaman and her protégé to investigate the disturbing supernatural illness affecting only the firstborn of each generation. They soon trace the affliction to a long-hidden family grave on sacred ground. This K-horror film is perfect for Halloween!

01 Nov Fri / 2024

  • Black Gospel Film Poster
    Black Gospel
    7 p.m.—9 p.m.

    Post-film Q&A with actor Yang Dong-geun. Actors and real-life friends Yang Dong Geun, Jung Joon, and Kim Yoo Mi join members of Heritage, a musical ensemble whose members co-founded the Heritage Mass Choir on a trip to Harlem in New York City.

02 Nov Sat / 2024

  • Paul Gauguin, Femmes de Tahiti (Tahitian Women)

    Paul Gauguin, Femmes de Tahiti (Tahitian Women), 1891, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photo © TMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

    Members Lecture | “Gauguin in the World”
    4 p.m.—5 p.m.

    SOLD OUT | MFAH members are invited to an exclusive lecture about the exhibition Gauguin in the World.

  • Handsome Guys Film Poster
    Handsome Guys (Haenseomgaijeu)
    7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.

    Misunderstood friends Jae-pil and Sang-gu appear to be tough guys, but are more often clueless. When they achieve their dream of buying a fixer-upper and living in the country, they come to the aid of a drowning girl yet are mistaken for kidnappers. The town is searching for the girl, police get involved, and a dark, ancient spirit is awakened in the men’s basement!

03 Nov Sun / 2024

06 Nov Wed / 2024