BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//MFAH//MFAH 2.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6A675F34BE3070A6BA03C071-6A675F34BE3070A6BA03C073 DTSTART:20260919T220000Z DTEND:20260920T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T140418Z CREATED:20260916T140418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T140418Z SUMMARY:The Piano X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Ada (Oscar winner Holly Hunter)—mut e since birth—arrives with her piano and her 9-year-old-daughter (Osc ar winner Anna Paquin) to an arranged marriage in the remote wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand. When Ada’s husband (Sam Neill, 1947–2 026) refuses to transport the piano and leaves it behind on the beach, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman (Harvey Keitel) to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. Filmmaker Jane Campion won the Cannes Film Festival’s Pa lme d’Or and Best Original Screenplay Oscar for The Piano, o ne of the defining international art-house films of the 1990s.
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The new 4K UHD restoration was supervised and approv ed by Jane Campion and her director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh. This n ew 4K restoration was made in the United States in Dolby Vision HDR 16-bit 4K from the original 35mm image negative scanned on Arriscan at the Fixafil m lab in Australia. Color grading was supervised and approved by Jane Campi on and Stuart Dryburgh, with a 35mm print from the Academy of Motion Pictur e Arts and Sciences used as a reference. The original 5.1 audio mix was rem astered from the original 24-track digital. 
DESCRIPTION:Ada (Oscar winner Holly Hunter)—mute since birth—arrives with h er piano and her 9-year-old-daughter (Oscar winner Anna Paquin) to an arran ged marriage in the remote wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand. When Ada ’s husband (Sam Neill, 1947–2026) refuses to transport the piano and leaves it behind on the beach, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman (Harvey Keitel) to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. Filmmaker Jane Campion won the Ca nnes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or and Best Original Screenplay Oscar for The Piano, one of the defining international art-house films of the 1990s. Tic kets $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+ ) Plan Your Visit This screening takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building. Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map The new 4K UHD restoration was supervised and approved by Jane Campion and her director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh. This new 4K restoration was made in the United States in Dolby Vision HDR 16-bit 4K from the original 3 5mm image negative scanned on Arriscan at the Fixafilm lab in Australia. Co lor grading was supervised and approved by Jane Campion and Stuart Dryburgh , with a 35mm print from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences us ed as a reference. The original 5.1 audio mix was remastered from the origi nal 24-track digital.  LOCATION;VVENUE=5F4EB6583CA19A0001DE73FD:Caroline Wiess Law Building \n1001 Bissonnet Street \nHouston, TX 77005 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE UID:5F4EB6583CA19A0001DE73FD NAME:Caroline Wiess Law Building X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Law Building, named for MFAH patron Car oline Wiess Law, features galleries for changing exhibitions as well as for the Museum’s collections of Asian, African, Islamic, Native American , Pacific Islands and Australian, and Pre-Columbian art.

DESCRIPTION:The Law Building, named for MFAH patron Caroline Wiess Law, fea tures galleries for changing exhibitions as well as for the Museum’s collec tions of Asian, African, Islamic, Native American, Pacific Islands and Aust ralian, and Pre-Columbian art. STREET-ADDRESS:1001 Bissonnet Street LOCALITY:Houston REGION;ABBREV=TX:Texas COUNTRY;ABBREV=US:United States POSTAL-CODE:77005 URL;TYPE=Map:https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Caroline+Wiess+Law+Building++1001+Bissonnet+Street++Houston%2c+TX+77005 END:VVENUE END:VCALENDAR