Due to the impacts of Winter Storm Enzo, all MFAH locations—including the main campus in the Museum District, Bayou Bend, Rienzi, and the Glassell School of Art—are closed on Wednesday, January 22.

Calendar Week of Saturday, December 2, 2023-Friday, December 8, 2023

View of Vietri and Raito
Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond Through July 6, 2025

Featuring over 70 works of art in a variety of media, Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyondexplores how the genre of landscape evolved during …

26 Jan Sun / 2025

  • Miriama Bono

    Miriama Bono

    Lecture | Gauguin’s Tahitian Legacy
    2 p.m.—3 p.m.

    Architect, cultural consultant, and artist Miriama Bono will present the contemporary works of international artists Kanaky and Yuki Kihara, how their work draws inspiration from Gauguin, and the impact of the painter's legacy in Tahiti.  

  • 6 AM Film Poster
    6 A.M. (Sa’ate 6 Sobh)
    2 p.m.—3:30 p.m.

    Sara lives in Tehran and has been accepted by a doctoral program in philosophy at a Canadian university. She has a 6 a.m. flight to catch, but her friends have planned one last party before she leaves Iran. What follows is a tense social drama depicting a group of people celebrating their friend’s success while the guest of honor worries about her early flight the next day.

  • Behind-the-Scenes Tour at Rienzi
    The Masterson Legacy: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour at Rienzi
    2 p.m.—4 p.m.

    Step into the private world of the Masterson family, the original owners of Rienzi. Get an exclusive look at art objects and areas of the house not usually on view. 

  • Universal Language Film Poster
    Universal Language (Une langue universelle)
    5 p.m.—6:30 p.m.

    Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin and Iranian writers Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati won the inaugural Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award at Cannes for this absurdist comedy that variously evokes the films of Abbas Kiarostami, Wes Anderson, and Guy Maddin.