Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Saturday, June 21, 2025-Friday, June 27, 2025
Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond Through July 6, 2025
Featuring more than 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 …
21 Jun Sat / 2025
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The Pawnbroker
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Director Sidney Lumet’s groundbreaking 1964 drama stars Rod Steiger as a German-Jewish immigrant who lives a bitter, lonely existence running a pawn shop in Harlem. Quincy Jones’s first Hollywood film score features musicians Dave Grusin, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, and Oliver Nelson.
22 Jun Sun / 2025
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Family Art-Making Studio
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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Rosemary Crill
Opening Day Lecture | “From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection”
2 p.m.—3 p.m.An inside look at the exhibition of one of the most significant private collections of Indian textiles outside of India.
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Killer of Sheep
5 p.m.—6:30 p.m.Killer of Sheep examines life in Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan (Houston native Henry G. Sanders), a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse.
27 Jun Fri / 2025
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Anicka Yi, photography by Jae An Lee.
© 2025 Anicka Yi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone GalleryMembers Preview | “Anicka Yi”
11 a.m.—9 p.m.MFAH members are invited to preview Anicka Yi before the immersive exhibition opens to the public.
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Muhammad Baqir, Dancing Girl, 1778–79, oil on canvas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Franci Neely, and Sabiha and Omar Rehmatulla at the 2015 Art of the Islamic Worlds Gala.
Tour | Artwork of the Month “Dancing Girl”
1:30 p.m.—2 p.m.On this guided tour, learn about Dancing Girl.
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The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka took Paris, Milan, Berlin, and New York by storm in the 1920s. A century later, this fascinating film tells the story of her life, tracing Lempicka’s flight from persecution, her affairs with men and women, and her hidden Jewish heritage.
