Caroline Wiess Law Building Lectures Year of Friday, October 25, 2024-Friday, October 24, 2025
Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples Through January 20, 2025
Exploring 3,000 years of spiritual belief and practice, the expansive Living with the Godsfeatures more than 200 objects from the MFAH collections, along with exceptional loans from museums and …
05 Dec Thu / 2024
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Ingenuity and Invention: Paul Gauguin’s Printing Techniques
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Harriet Stratis presents a lecture on Paul Gauguin’s experimentation with techniques and materials in print production.
14 Dec Sat / 2024
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Artist Talk | Rose B. Simpson
2 p.m.—3 p.m.Artist Rose B. Simpson discusses her multidisciplinary practice, which is rooted in her Santa Clara Pueblo heritage.
09 Jan Thu / 2025
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Indigenous Faith Practices: Vietnamese Folk Religion
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Houston faith leaders engage in a discussion about their connections with objects and themes showcased in the exhibition Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples.
12 Jan Sun / 2025
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Opening Day Lecture | “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond”
2 p.m.—3 p.m.An inside look at the exhibition which highlights the flowering of landscape painting in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the work of such notable artists as Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, John Robert Cozens, John Constable, and J.M.W. Turner.