Calendar Week of Thursday, September 20, 2012-Wednesday, September 26, 2012
![Tschabalala Self, Sprewell, 2020, fabric, thread, painted canvas, silk, jeans, painted newsprint, stamp, photographic transfer on paper, and acrylic on canvas](https://static.mfah.com/images/tschabalala-self-sprewell.4155010702610438048.jpg?width=540&height=540&bgcolor=blur)
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.
28 Mar Thu / 2024
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2023–2024 Core Residents, left to right: (top row) Carlos Vielma, Yifan Jiang, Erin Holland, Max Tolleson; (bottom row) Umico Niwa, Saúl Hernández-Vargas, Valentin Diaconov, larí garcía
Core Program | Open Studios 2024
4 p.m.—9 p.m.Drop by the Core Program studios to see what the fellows have been working on this year.
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The Artist’s Daughter, Oil on Canvas
5 p.m.—6 p.m.A visit to her estranged father’s exhibition of self-portraits renews the filmmaker’s relationship with him, but not the way she expected.
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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 Masks of Africa
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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Henri Matisse, Open Window, Collioure, 1905, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Art Encounters | “Vertigo of Color”
6 p.m.—8 p.m.This Art Encounters session invites you to participate in a collaboration between visual art, music, and dance inspired by the exhibition Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism.
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Camp Logan, Houston, August 23, 1917, Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, August 24, 1917; courtesy of the artist.
FotoFest | Wendel A. White on “Difficult Histories”
6:30 p.m.—8 p.m.Wendel A. White discusses the photographs in his FotoFest exhibition Difficult Histories—Selections from Red Summer and Manifest.
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Art Bites | The Masks of Africa
7 p.m.—7:30 p.m.A little art can go a long way! Visit the galleries for a snippet of art appreciation.
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Drop-in Tour | “Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence”
7 p.m.—8 p.m.Take a guided tour of the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence.
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Martha Liebermann: A Stolen Life (Martha Liebermann – Ein gestohlenes Leben)
7:30 p.m.—9 p.m.An upper-class widow in Berlin could never have imagined having to leave her beloved homeland at the age of 85. As a German Jew in 1943, however, her only choice is to go abroad or wait to be deported to a concentration camp.
29 Mar Fri / 2024
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Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain)
7 p.m.—9 p.m.In one of the most beloved and acclaimed romantic comedies ever made, Audrey Tatou plays a naive Montmartre waitress who performs random acts of kindness for others, but privately leads a lonely, melancholic life bereft of love.