Calendar Week of Friday, March 28, 2025-Thursday, April 3, 2025
Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries Through May 26, 2025
History comes alive! Witness a Renaissance battle play out across royal tapestries. Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestriesoffers an unprecedented look at some of the most awe-inspiring …
28 Mar Fri / 2025
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Gustave Caillebotte, Mademoiselle Boissière Knitting, 1877, oil on canvas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Audrey Jones Beck
Tour | Artwork of the Month “Mademoiselle Boissière Knitting”
1:30 p.m.—2 p.m.On this guided tour, learn about the painting Mademoiselle Boissière Knitting.
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2024–2025 Core Residents, left to right: (top row) Umico Niwa, Carlos Vielma; (bottom row) Max Tolleson, larí garcía
Core Program | Open Studios 2025
4 p.m.—9 p.m.The Museum’s Core Residency Program invites you to meet the 2024–2025 Core residents in their studios and learn more about their practices. Drop by to see what they have been working on this year!
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Happy Hour Friday
5 p.m.—8 p.m.Happy Hour Friday is the place to be! Meet your friends at the MFAH for the best night of the week.
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The One Man Band (L’homme orchestre)
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.A woman joins a ballet group whose manager forbids his dancers any distractions outside of dance. Little does he know she has a son in Italy, and the troupe goes to great lengths to create an explanation for the boy’s existence.
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Hibernatus
9 p.m.—10:30 p.m.After he is awakened from a 65-year cryogenic freeze, a man’s relatives plan an elaborate ruse on their long-lost relative so as not to shock him with contemporary reality.
29 Mar Sat / 2025
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Yoga at Rienzi
9 a.m.—10 a.m.Enjoy an introductory yoga session in the beautiful surroundings of Rienzi. Afterward, stay to explore the gardens!
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Yoga at Rienzi
10:30 a.m.—11:30 a.m.Enjoy an introductory yoga session in the beautiful surroundings of Rienzi. Afterward, stay to explore the gardens!
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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
Saturday Members Tour | “Knights in Shining Armor”
1 p.m.—2 p.m.MFAH members are invited to enjoy an inside look at the exhibition Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries.
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Members Event | “Toshiko Takaezu” Art-Making Activity for Families
1 p.m.—4 p.m.MFAH members at the Family Level and above are invited to an afternoon of art-making activities inspired by Toshiko Takaezu.
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Artist Talk & Sound Walk | Leilehua Lanzilotti
2 p.m.—3 p.m.This program with artist Leilehua Lanzilotti complements the exhibition Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within.
