Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Thursday, August 25, 2022-Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Tamara de Lempicka Through May 26, 2025
Capturing the glamour and vitality of 1920s postwar Paris and the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood celebrity, Tamara de Lempicka infused her paintings with a brilliant sense of fashion, design, and the …
10 May Sat / 2025
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Open Season (Chasse gardée)
8:45 p.m.—10:30 p.m.Parisian hipsters and their two kids have outgrown their city apartment. They jump at the chance to purchase a spacious country home, but there’s a hitch: the deed of sale allows the entire village to hunt on their property! Before long, beasts start trampling into the house and bullets are flying.
11 May Sun / 2025
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Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet!)
3 p.m.—4:30 p.m.Chicken for Linda! is a sweet and funny story the whole family will enjoy: a film that speaks of childhood from a child’s perspective, detailed in vibrant hand-painted images and told with humor, music, mischief and poetry.
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The Art of Nothing (L’art d’être heureux)
5 p.m.—7 p.m.A self-absorbed conceptual artist moves to a seaside village hoping to reinvent himself. Embraced by the town’s quirky creative community—including a flirtatious gallerist and a congenial plein-air painter—he finds himself pulled into interpersonal dramas as well as jokes that may be at his own expense.
15 May Thu / 2025
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Designed by Bernard van Orley, woven by Willem and Jan Dermoyen, Surrender of King François I, c. 1528–31, wool, silk, gold, and silver thread, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples. Image © Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
Drop-in Experience | “Knights in Shining Armor”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Visit Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries with docents available in the gallery to enhance your experience. This exhibition showcases dynamic 16th-century textiles, suits of intricate armor, and stunning ceremonial weapons.
16 May Fri / 2025
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Bach Society Houston
Bach Society Houston | “Knights in Shining Armor”
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Enjoy music composed during the era of Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries. Bach Society Houston presents a 30-minute concert of madrigals and chansons, which is performed twice.
