Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Year of Tuesday, July 22, 2025-Tuesday, July 21, 2026
From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection Through September 14, 2025
Showcasing the Museum’s recent acquisition of Indian textiles from the holdings of Banoo and Jeevak Parpia, this exhibition celebrates artistic mastery and cultural exchange.
24 Jul Thu / 2025
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Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.Marlee Matlin shattered expectations as the first deaf actor to win an Academy Award for her groundbreaking performance in Children of a Lesser God (1987). Catapulted into the spotlight, 21-year-old Matlin challenged an industry unprepared for her immense talent, emerging as a trailblazer not only as a performer but also as an author and activist.
25 Jul Fri / 2025
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Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Showcasing O’Keeffe’s vibrant art, observations by curators and scholars, and excerpts from 20,000 pages of letters between the artist and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, the life of this remarkable artist is detailed. Claire Danes voices Georgia O’Keeffe.
26 Jul Sat / 2025
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Compensation
7 p.m.—9 p.m.A milestone of independent cinema, Zeinabu irene Davis’s first feature (presented in a 4K rejuvenation) presents parallel African American love stories between a deaf woman and a hearing man set decades apart. Inspired by a poem by legendary African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, this moving narrative depicts their struggle to overcome racism, disability, and discrimination.
27 Jul Sun / 2025
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Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
5 p.m.—7 p.m.Showcasing O’Keeffe’s vibrant art, observations by curators and scholars, and excerpts from 20,000 pages of letters between the artist and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, the life of this remarkable artist is detailed. Claire Danes voices Georgia O’Keeffe.
01 Aug Fri / 2025
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Stray Dog (Noru Inu)
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Stray Dog goes beyond a crime thriller, probing the squalid world of postwar Japan, and the nature of the criminal mind.
02 Aug Sat / 2025
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5 p.m.—8 p.m.In translating Milan Kundera’s supposedly “unfilmable” novel to the big screen, Philip Kaufman achieves a delicate, erotic balance by focusing on three central characters.
03 Aug Sun / 2025
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Ikiru
5 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death.
08 Aug Fri / 2025
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The People’s Joker
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.A hilarious reimagining of the classic coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted trans girl as she moves to Gotham City to make it big by joining the cast of a government-sanctioned, late-night sketch show in a world where comedy has been outlawed.
09 Aug Sat / 2025
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The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-Toride No San-Akunin)
7 p.m.—9:30 p.m.Toshiro Mifune is a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory.
10 Aug Sun / 2025
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Little Artists
1 p.m.—2:30 p.m.An exciting art adventure for families at the Museum.
