Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Sunday, May 5, 2024-Saturday, May 11, 2024
![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.
08 May Wed / 2024
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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
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.
09 May Thu / 2024
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Three-Part Garden Landscape Window for Linden Hall (center panel), designed by Agnes F. Northrop, Tiffany Studios, New York, 1912, leaded favrile glass, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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.
10 May Fri / 2024
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Food, Inc. 2: Back for Seconds
7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.In the sequel to the Oscar-nominated 2008 documentary Food, Inc., the filmmakers reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at the efficient yet vulnerable food system.
11 May Sat / 2024
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Saturday Members Tour | “Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism”
11:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m.MFAH members are invited to join a docent for a closer look at the wildly colorful canvases of Henri Matisse and André Derain in the exhibition Vertigo of Color.