Calendar Week of Saturday, May 4, 2024-Friday, May 10, 2024
![Marius Hammer, Viking Dragon Boat, c. 1900, silver and enamel](https://static.mfah.com/images/marius-hammer-viking-dragon-boat.665174397226099502.jpg?width=540&height=540&bgcolor=blur)
Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway Through May 5, 2024
Remarkable objects from three prestigious collections of art, craft, and design come to the United States for the first time, on exclusive loan. Spanning the 16th to early 20th century, this …
09 May Thu / 2024
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Mrs. Jelf Powis and Her Daughter, 1777, oil on canvas, the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston.
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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Kaima Marie Akarue, Brittney Boyd Bullock & Kahlil Robert Irving
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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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.
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Tschabalala Self, Sprewell, 2020, fabric, thread, painted canvas, silk, jeans, painted newsprint, stamp, photographic transfer on paper, and acrylic on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, gift, image courtesy of the artist; Pilar Corrias, London; and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich. © Tschabalala Self
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.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Mrs. Jelf Powis and Her Daughter, 1777, oil on canvas, the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston.
Art Bites | The Grand Manner Portrait in European Painting
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.
10 May Fri / 2024
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Gego, Esfera No. 8, 1977, steel wire with metal leader sleeves, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the Fundación Gego.
Tour | Artwork of the Month “Esfera”
1:30 p.m.—2 p.m.On this guided tour, learn about the artwork Esfera No. 8.
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Drop-in Tour | “Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Take a guided tour of the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence.
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Bach Society Houston
Gallery Concert “Baroque Music in the Americas”
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.Enjoy an intimate performance by members of the Bach Society Houston Choir.
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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.