Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Tuesday, September 26, 2023-Monday, October 2, 2023


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 …

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

07 Nov Thu / 2024

  • Zoroastrian Afargan Altar

    Zoroastrian Afargan Altar, 20th century, silver, Zoroastrian Temple, Houston.

    Divine Fire: Zoroastrianism and Ritual Purity
    6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.

    This gallery conversation, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples, is led by Vehishta Kaikobad, Zoroastrian Association of Houston and an MFAH docent.

  • Tendaberry Film Image
    Tendaberry
    7:30 p.m.—9:30 p.m.

    Houston Cinema Arts Festival

    The opening-night selection is a kinetic portrait of Dakota (Kota Johan), a twentysomething New York City transplant adrift in post-pandemic Brooklyn. When her boyfriend (Yuri Pleskun) is called back to his native Ukraine to care for his ailing father, Dakota is forced to navigate the city and its hardships alone and pregnant.

08 Nov Fri / 2024