Calendar Week starting Wednesday, September 28, 2016
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
Highlights of the MFAH–Beck BuildingWith so many exhibitions and galleries to explore at the Museum, it’s almost impossible to see everything on one visit. So join up with this tour that samples the diverse array of art on view at the MFAH today.
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
ArtSpeak 101–Beck BuildingEver wonder what art-world terms like “Classical,” “modeling,” “genre,” “gestural,” and “sublime” mean? Take this tour and pretty soon you, too, will know how to speak like an art expert!
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
Photography and Its Influence on the Visual Arts–Beck BuildingExplore some of the ways photography has influenced paintings—and vice versa—through examples on display in the Museum’s galleries.
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PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES
Happy Hour Thursdays–Beck BuildingBring your friends to a museum-style happy hour on Thursday, when general admission is free and the MFAH is open late! Enjoy drinks at the cash bar, beats by a local DJ, and bites at the evening’s food truck.
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
Art Bite “Love, Romance, and Everything in Between”–Beck BuildingDiscover a few of the many faces of love and relationships depicted in works of art on this tour.
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PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES
Discovery Carts–Beck BuildingStop by the Discovery Cart and do something you can’t do anywhere else in the Museum—touch and feel the materials from which works of art are made.
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Sivas–Director Kaan Müjdeci is in attendance and joins a Q&A after the screening. Set in an Anatolian village in Eastern Turkey, Sivas is a coming-of-age story about 11-year-old Aslan and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog. They develop a strong bond after the boy rescues the wounded animal.
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Art Bite “Slow Looking”–Beck Building“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. What if, instead of trying to see so many works of art when we visit a Museum, we slowed down?
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Art Bite “Sit Back and Relax”–Beck BuildingAfter a day’s work, it’s time to sit back and relax! This tour features paintings that depict people relaxing, and even some actual chairs from the Museum’s collections.