Calendar Week of Saturday, August 4, 2012-Friday, August 10, 2012
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage Through May 12, 2024
The first major museum exhibition on this subject, Multiplicity explores the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States through collage and collage-informed works.
08 May Wed / 2024
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Drop-in Tour | “Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism”
1 p.m.—2 p.m.Take a guided tour of the exhibition Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism.
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History Book Club “American Eclipse”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.The History Book Club hosts a free discussion about American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World.
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History Book Club “American Eclipse”
7 p.m.—8 p.m.The History Book Club hosts a free discussion about American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World.
09 May Thu / 2024
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Drop-in Tour | The American Gilded Age
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.This tour explores the work of “Gilded Age” artists such as Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and Louis Comfort Tiffany.
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Happy Hour Thursday
5 p.m.—8 p.m.Happy Hour Thursday is the place to be! Meet your friends at the MFAH for the best night of the week.
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Art Bites | The Grand Manner Portrait in European Painting
6 p.m.—6:30 p.m.A little art can go a long way! Visit the galleries for a snippet of art appreciation.
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Art Bites | The Grand Manner Portrait in European Painting
6:30 p.m.—7 p.m.A little art can go a long way! Visit the galleries for a snippet of art appreciation.
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Lecture | Tiffany’s Glass Visions of the Natural World: An Extraordinary Landscape Window
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Get a behind-the-scenes preview of a magnificent leaded-glass window to be unveiled this fall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Artists in Dialogue | Featuring “Multiplicity” Artists Kaima Marie Akarue, Brittney Boyd Bullock & Kahlil Robert Irving
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.This Artists in Dialogue session features artists Kaima Marie Akarue, Brittney Boyd Bullock, and Kahlil Robert Irving discussing their work from the exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage.
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Collage & Cabernet
6:30 p.m.—8 p.m.Create your own collage narrative in this mixed-media workshop with artist Tay Butler, whose work is featured in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage.