Nancy and Rich Kinder Building Events Week of Sunday, November 27, 2022-Saturday, December 3, 2022
Jennifer Steinkamp: The Seasons Through February 5, 2023
Three projections from Jennifer Steinkamp’s series Mike Kelleycreate a luminous grove as each tree passes through seasonal cycles, going from bare to tender green; to autumnal incandescence; and back …
03 Feb Fri / 2023
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Alma’s Rainbow
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Ayoka Chenzira’s feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold, who is entering womanhood and navigating standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights Black women have over their bodies.
04 Feb Sat / 2023
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Drop-in Tour | Highlights of the Kinder Building
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.On this guided tour, see the modern and contemporary art on view in the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building.
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The African Desperate
3 p.m.—5 p.m.Chaos reigns in the riotously funny debut feature from visual artist Martine Syms. This fantastical day-in-the-life of a Black artist is a rollicking satire of art-world pretensions and a rowdy portrayal of sex and drugs in the Internet age.
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The Watermelon Woman
6:30 p.m.—8:30 p.m.An investigation into film history that doubles as a romantic comedy, The Watermelon Woman is a dazzlingly inventive landmark of the New Queer Cinema.
05 Feb Sun / 2023
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Compensation
5 p.m.—7 p.m.This unique drama presents parallel African American love stories about a deaf woman and a hearing man who live in Chicago, decades apart.
09 Feb Thu / 2023
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Drop-in Tour | Get to Know the Kinder Building
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.On this guided tour, visit favorite works of art and discover new commissions in the Kinder Building, designed to house the MFAH collection of modern and contemporary art from around the world.
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Drop-in Tour | Highlights of the Kinder Building
3:30 p.m.—4:30 p.m.On this guided tour, see the modern and contemporary art on view in the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building.
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Attributed to John Constable, A View on the Banks of the River Stour, 1815, oil on board, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Stuart Collection, gift of Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of James Chillman, Jr., the first Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Concert | “Beautiful, Picturesque, and Sublime”
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.The MFAH and the DaCamera Young Artists present a free concert inspired by the Stuart Collection of British landscape paintings.
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Attributed to John Constable, A View on the Banks of the River Stour, 1815, oil on board, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Stuart Collection, gift of Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of James Chillman, Jr., the first Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Concert | “Beautiful, Picturesque, and Sublime”
7:30 p.m.—8:30 p.m.The MFAH and the DaCamera Young Artists present a free concert inspired by the Stuart Collection of British landscape paintings.
