Calendar Week of Tuesday, October 1, 2024-Monday, October 7, 2024
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 …
23 Mar Sun / 2025
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Family Art-Making Studio 2025
1 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Create and learn in this workshop for families. Explore a work of art in the galleries, then make your own masterpiece in the studio.
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The Blond Boy from the Casbah (Le petit blond de la casbah)
3 p.m.—5 p.m.Growing up in war-torn 1960s Algiers, Antoine Lisner discovers a profound fascination with cinema. Revisiting the place as an adult, now a filmmaker, he remembers emotional moments of his youth, spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family.
24 Mar Mon / 2025
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Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA) artist interview workshop at Fundación Cortés, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 2024. Photograph by Javier del Valle Beltrán
VoCA Spanish Workshop
9 a.m.—3 p.m.VoCA hosts an in-person Artist Interview workshop in Spanish at the Museum.
25 Mar Tue / 2025
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Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA) artist interview workshop at Fundación Cortés, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 2024. Photograph by Javier del Valle Beltrán
VoCA Spanish Workshop
9 a.m.—3 p.m.VoCA hosts an in-person Artist Interview workshop in Spanish at the Museum.
26 Mar Wed / 2025
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Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA) artist interview workshop at Fundación Cortés, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 2024. Photograph by Javier del Valle Beltrán
VoCA Spanish Workshop
9 a.m.—3 p.m.VoCA hosts an in-person Artist Interview workshop in Spanish at the Museum.
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Toshiko Takaezu, Purple Moon, c. 1998, stoneware, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection, gift of Leatrice and Melvin Eagle. © Family of Toshiko Takaezu
Drop-in Tour | “Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.This tour highlights the exhibition Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, which presents more than 100 works of art in stunning installations often inspired by those Takaezu created during her lifetime. Rarely seen paintings and masterful weavings are also on view.
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10 Min. of Water
Core Program Film Series | The Middle of Somewhere
6 p.m.—8 p.m.Core Program critic-in-residence Max Tolleson hosts a film series curated to accompany his his 2025 Core Exhibition yearbook essay, “Marfa Myths.”
27 Mar 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 Tour | “Knights in Shining Armor”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.This tour highlights the exhibition Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries, which offers an unprecedented look at some of the most awe-inspiring examples of these dynamic textile compositions, enhanced by the addition of full suits of intricate parade armor and stunning ceremonial weapons from the 16th century.
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Early College Program | Info Session
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.The Glassell School of Art invites you to an information session about the new Emerging Artists: Early College Program. This initiative is designed for high school students eager to grow their artistic skills in a collaborative environment.
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Vishniac
7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.Vishniac follows photographer Roman Vishniac from his early years in czarist Russia to his emergence as a Modernist photographer in Weimar Berlin, as well as his journeys across Eastern Europe before WWII and his family’s dramatic escape to America in 1940.
