Calendar Week of Friday, December 1, 2023-Thursday, December 7, 2023
Rembrandt to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Armand Hammer Collection Through January 21, 2024
Outstanding selections from the Armand Hammer Collection include paintings by Rembrandt and Titian, as well as significant works by artists such as Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Manet, and Monet.
01 Dec Fri / 2023
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Installation view of the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery for Judaica.
Members Preview | Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery for Judaica
11 a.m.—5 p.m.MFAH members are invited to enjoy a first look at the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery for Judaica.
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MFAH Playdate
11:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m.Children 4 and younger, and their adult caregivers, are invited to enjoy a multi-sensory experience in the galleries with songs, stories, games, and activities.
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Unknown North African, Middle Eastern, and Near Eastern, Perfume sprinkler (qumqum), Syrian, 13th century, Glass; blown, marvered, applied, tooled, and worked on the pontil, Museum PurchaseTour | Artwork of the Month “Perfume Sprinkler”
3:30 p.m.—4:30 p.m.Engage in slow looking and study of select artwork.
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Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji)
7 p.m.—10 p.m.Spanning 50 years from the early 20th century to the Cultural Revolution, this genre-bending love story captures the vast historical scope of a changing country and features performances showcasing the remarkable tradition of the Peking Opera.
02 Dec Sat / 2023
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Saturday Members Tour | “Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955”
11:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m.MFAH members are invited to enjoy an inside look at the exhibition Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955.
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Saturday Members Tour | “Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955”
12:30 p.m.—1:15 p.m.MFAH members are invited to enjoy an inside look at the exhibition Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955.
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Installation view of the Art of the Islamic Worlds galleries.
Drop-in Tour | Get to Know the Art of the Islamic Worlds
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Take a guided tour of the gallery space dedicated to art from the Islamic worlds, showcasing nearly 1,000 years of history and culture.
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Holiday Brews on the Bend
2 p.m.—6 p.m.Enjoy beer tastings and live jazz on the grounds of Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens.
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Tove
5 p.m.—7 p.m.In this captivating drama, Alma Pöysti stars as iconic Finnish artist Tove Jansson, who defied the bourgeois norms of postwar Europe to live a life of artistic and sexual freedom.
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Aurora
7:30 p.m.—9:30 p.m.Twentysomething Aurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, finds herself at loose ends. When she meets Darian, an Iranian who needs to marry a Finnish woman to gain asylum, she introduces him to numerous women.
