Current Exhibitions
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Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Büsi (Kitty)
ThroughCommissioned for New York City’s Times Square, this video shows a house cat, filmed close up, lapping milk from a saucer, with light striking its fur to create a halo. The camera slowly moves in, giving the cat ever-greater monumentality.
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Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
ThroughPhotographer Sally Mann explores what it means to be Southern. The internationally traveling exhibition A Thousand Crossings, the first major retrospective of the celebrated artist’s career, showcases her experimental, hauntingly beautiful photographs.
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Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017
ThroughOdysssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017 is the first major exhibition dedicated to sculptures by renowned contemporary artist Jack Whitten. The presentation showcases sculptures the artist created in Greece over the course of his five-decade career, along with a selection of his paintings.
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Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art
ThroughThe MFAH is the only venue for this major survey that brings together more than 50 masterworks by one of the most iconic artists in the history of Western art. Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art follows Van Gogh through four key stages of his career, from early sketches to final paintings.
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Broadway’s Amazing Mastersons
ThroughAs part of Rienzi’s 20th anniversary celebrations, this exhibition focuses on its founders—Carroll Sterling Masterson and Harris Masterson III—and their foray into Broadway productions.
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Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes on Paper—Selections from the Museum’s Collection
ThroughThe works of art selected for this presentation show how the simultaneously beautiful and terrifying elements of the natural world activate feelings of fear and wonder that define the sublime.
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Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography
ThroughThe annual Eye on Houston exhibition invites area high school students to document and celebrate the diversity of neighborhoods throughout the city. This year’s presentation showcases 93 photographs by students from nine Houston ISD schools.
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Spanish Colonial Paintings from the Thoma Collection
ThroughThe Museum presents a selection of Spanish colonial paintings from the celebrated collection of Carl and Marilynn Thoma.
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A History of Photography: Selections from the Museum’s Collection
ThroughA History of Photography is a series of installations that trace the course of photography from its invention to the present day, showcasing important new acquisitions and treasured masterpieces from the MFAH collection.
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Between Play and Grief: Selections from the Latino American Collection
ThroughBetween Play and Grief: Selections from the Latino American Collection features a survey of works from the MFAH collection of modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx art.
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Mending: Craft and Community—Selections from the Museum’s Collection
ThroughObjects from the MFAH collection showcase mending as an act of transformation by artists working in a wide range of craft-based materials. The selections on view reveal techniques and personal stories that weave together narratives of race, gender, and sexual orientation.
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Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait
ThroughThe Museum’s landmark partnership with the Kuwait-based al-Sabah Collection and the cultural institution Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah makes possible this installation featuring some 250 objects from the 8th to 18th century that present a comprehensive spectrum of Islamic art.