Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Sunday, May 22, 2022-Saturday, May 28, 2022
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism Through May 27, 2024
A creative partnership between Henri Matisse and André Derain in 1905 changed the course of French painting. This exhibition showcases the legacy of that collaboration through paintings, drawings, and …
18 Apr Thu / 2024
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College Week
11 a.m.—9 p.m.The MFAH celebrates college students with four days of admission perks, April 17–20.
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Panel Discussion | Life of the Book: “The Montefiore Mainz Mahzor”
6:30 p.m.—8 p.m.Art experts and faith leaders discuss the illuminated 14th-century communal prayer book on view in the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery for Judaica.
19 Apr Fri / 2024
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College Week
11 a.m.—6 p.m.The MFAH celebrates college students with four days of admission perks, April 17–20.
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Caravaggio
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.Derek Jarman’s most profound reflection on art, sexuality, and identity recounts the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
20 Apr Sat / 2024
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College Week
11 a.m.—6 p.m.The MFAH celebrates college students with four days of admission perks, April 17–20.
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Saturday Members Tour | 100 Years of Architecture at the MFAH
Gallery Talk/Tour Audrey Jones Beck Building Caroline Wiess Law Building Nancy and Rich Kinder Building11:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m.MFAH members are invited on this tour marking the centennial anniversary of the Museum’s opening. Architecture throughout the campus reflects the profound leaps in style over a century.
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“Multiplicity” In-Gallery Experience | Featuring Lanecia A. Rouse
2 p.m.—3 p.m.Artist Lanecia A. Rouse discusses her work in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage and related topics regarding the landscape of contemporary Black collage.