Calendar Week starting Thursday, February 13, 2014
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
Favorite Highlights–Beck BuildingThis 45-minute tour features some of the best-known and best-loved works in the MFAH collections. Each tour is a unique experience as the docent selects different works of art for each gallery talk.
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
Lunch + Look “After the Impressionists”–Beck BuildingPost-Impressionist artists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations. On this tour of the MFAH art collections, discover how artists such as Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh influenced the direction of art at the end[…]
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LECTURES
The 32nd Annual Houston Antiques Dealers Association Lecture “When America Went Modern: Design in the 1920s and 1930s”–Law BuildingPresented by John Stuart Gordon, Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts, Yale University Art Gallery. Made possible through proceeds from the Houston Antiques Dealers Association 2014 Spring Antigues Show and Sale, February[…]
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
Obras favoritas–Beck BuildingEsta charla se presenta en español. / This tour is presented in Spanish. For this tour in English, see “Favorite Highlights” and Lunch + Look “Favorite Highlights.” Visite algunas de las más famosas y apreciadas[…]
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LECTURES
Special Presentation “The Buddhist Caves of Dunhuang: World Heritage Site on China’s Silk Road”–Law BuildingPresented by Fan Jinshi, director, Dunhuang Academy, and Mimi Gates, director emerita, Seattle Art Museum. One of the world's great museums—some 500 caves at Dunhuang filled with Buddhist painting and sculpture—were created over 1,000 years,[…]
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
19th-Century French Radicals–Beck BuildingOn this 45-minute tour, explore a selection of Impressionist paintings in the Museum's collection to discover the revolutionary ideas about art held by painters such as Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Degas.
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PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES
Happy Hour Thursdays–Beck BuildingBring your friends to a museum-style happy hour on Thursday, when general admission is free and the MFAH is open late! Enjoy drinks at the cash bar, beats by a local DJ, and bites at the evening’s food truck.
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LECTURES
The 32nd Annual Houston Antiques Dealers Association Lecture “When America Went Modern: Design in the 1920s and 1930s”–Law BuildingPresented by John Stuart Gordon, Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts, Yale University Art Gallery. Made possible through proceeds from the Houston Antiques Dealers Association 2014 Spring Antigues Show and Sale, February[…]
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PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES
Wine + Art “Four French Soirées”–Beck BuildingThis series of wine-tasting seminars complements the exhibitions The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and Georges Braque: A Retrospective. Each program begins with a brief presentation[…]
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GALLERY TALKS/TOURS
Favorite Highlights–Beck BuildingThis 45-minute tour features some of the best-known and best-loved works in the MFAH collections. Each tour is a unique experience as the docent selects different works of art for each gallery talk.