Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Year of Friday, August 1, 2025-Friday, July 31, 2026
Tamara de Lempicka Through July 6, 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 …
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.
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Yojimbo (Yôjinbô)
5 p.m.—7 p.m.To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily, masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage.
15 Aug Fri / 2025
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Dance Performance | “From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection”
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Enjoy a classical Indian dance and music performance presented to complement the exhibition From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection.
16 Aug Sat / 2025
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Aurora Picture Show Summer Filmmaking Camp World Premiere
1 p.m.—2:45 p.m.Walk the red carpet for Aurora’s annual Summer Filmmaking Camp World Premieres event, where young filmmakers’ visions come to life on the screen! This free screening showcases a wide range of creative short films made by Houston kids and teens (ages 7–15) through Aurora’s summer youth education program.
22 Aug Fri / 2025
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Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô)
7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo, jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a “proper” samurai on its ear.
