Lectures Week of Friday, November 24, 2023-Thursday, November 30, 2023


Celestial Conch Shell with Skulls
Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples Through January 20, 2025

Exploring 3,000 years of spiritual belief and practice, the expansive Living with the Godsfeatures more than 200 objects from the MFAH collections, along with exceptional loans from museums and …

03 Dec Tue / 2024

05 Dec Thu / 2024

  • Ingenuity And Invention

    Harriet Stratis, speaker / Paul Gauguin, 1898–99, Human miseries (Misères humaines) from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints (also called the Vollard Suite), woodblock print in black on ivory Japanese paper, state I/I, private collection, Houston, promised gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

    Ingenuity and Invention: Paul Gauguin’s Printing Techniques
    6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.

    Harriet Stratis presents a lecture on Paul Gauguin’s experimentation with techniques and materials in print production.