Calendar Week starting Sunday, January 6, 2013
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
“Visions of Fancy” Exhibition Tour–RienziDiscover the works of George Romney, one of the leading artists of late-18th-century England, on a docent-led exhibition tour of Visions of Fancy: George Romney, 18th-Century Paintings and Drawings. Rienzi, the MFAH house museum for European[…]
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PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES
Art Improv–Beck Building, Law BuildingArt Improv is held on select first Sundays throughout the year. Families choose a work of art anywhere in the museum and make friends with it—spend time sketching it, writing about it, and talking about it together.[…]
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
War in Art–Law BuildingWar seems to be an inevitable state of being for humanity. In the nearly four millennia of recorded history there have been few in which a war was not waged somewhere on earth. While the[…]
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FILMS
Restrepo–Law BuildingIntroduced by photojournalist Michael Kamber Focusing on a remote 15-man outpost considered one of the most dangerous assignments in the Afghanistan war, Restrepo evokes a harrowing real-time experience for the viewer. The film won the[…]
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WORKSHOPS
Homeschool Workshop “Cabinet of Wonder”–Law Building, Beck BuildingDuring the Renaissance era in Europe (approximately 14th to 17th centuries), a tradition emerged of collecting objects from nature, religion, and history, and displaying them in cabinets—or sometimes entire rooms. These were often called cabinets[…]
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
Lunch + Look “Spain and the New World”–Law BuildingThe "discovery" and conquest of the Americas by Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, and later explorers provided great wealth for Spain and other European nations who plundered natural resources including precious metals. But the indigenous peoples[…]
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WORKSHOPS
Homeschool Workshop “Cabinet of Wonder”–Law Building, Beck BuildingDuring the Renaissance era in Europe (approximately 14th to 17th centuries), a tradition emerged of collecting objects from nature, religion, and history, and displaying them in cabinets—or sometimes entire rooms. These were often called cabinets[…]
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WORKSHOPS
Hearst Foundation Evenings for Educators “Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado”–Law BuildingExperience the Golden Age of Spanish art. Spend the evening with portraits, mythological scenes, devotional paintings, and exquisite still lifes that span nearly four centuries of Spanish history. Don’t miss these extraordinary works by some[…]
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
“Visions of Fancy” Exhibition Tour–RienziDiscover the works of George Romney, one of the leading artists of late-18th-century England, on a docent-led exhibition tour of Visions of Fancy: George Romney, 18th-Century Paintings and Drawings. Rienzi, the MFAH house museum for European[…]
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
Lunch + Look “Spain and the New World”–Law BuildingThe "discovery" and conquest of the Americas by Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, and later explorers provided great wealth for Spain and other European nations who plundered natural resources including precious metals. But the indigenous peoples[…]