Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Month of Friday, May 24, 2024-Sunday, June 23, 2024
2024 Studio School Annual Student Exhibition Through July 26, 2024
The 2024 Studio School Annual Student Exhibition features a juried selection of work created by students during the academic year.
14 Jun Fri / 2024
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Space Is the Place
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.Calling planet Earth! “Jazz on Film” presents a special 50th-anniversary screening of the Afrofuturist classic Space Is the Place. This unique iteration of Ra’s musical concepts and social commentary is a blend of science fiction B-movie, blaxploitation flick, and concert documentary.
15 Jun Sat / 2024
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Saturday Members Tour | 100 Years of Art at the MFAH
Gallery Talk/Tour Audrey Jones Beck Building Caroline Wiess Law Building Nancy and Rich Kinder Building11:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m.MFAH members are invited on this tour marking the centennial anniversary of the Museum’s opening. Works of art throughout the campus reflect the incredible growth of the MFAH collections over the past century.
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International Sweethearts of Rhythm | Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be in Love
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.This screening presents two short documentaries by filmmakers Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss that spotlight often unsung women of jazz.
19 Jun Wed / 2024
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Educators Event | “Learning Through Art” Summer Institute | Secondary Teachers
11:30 a.m.—4:30 p.m.Educators: Empower your teaching through this three-day event for secondary teachers that focuses on promoting growth mindsets in all subject areas.
21 Jun Fri / 2024
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Jazz Films by John and Faith Hubley
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.Between the 1950s and 1970s, animators John and Faith Hubley made their own independent films with intelligence, passion, humor, and great music. Their poetic sensibility and whimsical, impressionistic visual style fit perfectly with jazz music.
22 Jun Sat / 2024
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Saturday Members Tour | 100 Years of Art at the MFAH
Gallery Talk/Tour Audrey Jones Beck Building Caroline Wiess Law Building Nancy and Rich Kinder Building11:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m.MFAH members are invited on this tour marking the centennial anniversary of the Museum’s opening. Works of art throughout the campus reflect the incredible growth of the MFAH collections over the past century.
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Let’s Get Lost
7 p.m.—9 p.m.In the 1950s, Chet Baker’s jazz trumpeting, intimate crooning, and pretty-boy good looks epitomized West Coast cool. When photographer Bruce Weber caught up with him three decades later, time and drug addiction had ravaged Baker’s life and angelic beauty.
23 Jun Sun / 2024
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Disco Boy
5 p.m.—6:30 p.m.In this stylish feature, a Belarusian immigrant (the charismatic Franz Rogowski) is haunted by his actions as a mercenary in the French Foreign Legion.
29 Jun Sat / 2024
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Saturday Members Tour | 100 Years of Art at the MFAH
Gallery Talk/Tour Audrey Jones Beck Building Caroline Wiess Law Building Nancy and Rich Kinder Building11:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m.MFAH members are invited on this tour marking the centennial anniversary of the Museum’s opening. Works of art throughout the campus reflect the incredible growth of the MFAH collections over the past century.
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Members Preview Curatorial Lecture “Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History”
4 p.m.—5 p.m.MFAH members are invited to an exclusive lecture about the exhibition Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History.