Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Sunday, June 22, 2025-Saturday, June 28, 2025
Floating World: A.A.Murakami Through September 21, 2025
An immersive fusion of the technical and the natural by artist duo A.A.Murakami, Floating World transports you to an ethereal world of amorphous bubbles, futuristic sculptures, swirling fog rings, …
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.
28 Jun Sat / 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.—6 p.m.MFAH members are invited to preview Anicka Yi before the immersive exhibition opens to the public.
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Sketching in the Galleries | Art of the Islamic Worlds
2 p.m.—4 p.m.Families with children ages 12 and older are invited to explore and practice sketching techniques in the Art of the Islamic Worlds galleries.
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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.
