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March 23, 2015 - “A Photographer’s Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins”
Title A Photographer’s Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins Dates April 4–July 5, 2015 Overview This exhibition celebrates the gift and promised gift of more than 400 photographs from the collection of Michael Marvins, a fourth-generation, Houston-based studio photographer, and his wife, Michele. The 60 works highlighted in this presentation represent some of the varied themes … -
March 19, 2015 - “American Modern: Works from the Collection of Alice C. Simkins”
Title American Modern: Works from the Collection of Alice C. Simkins Dates April 16–July 19, 2015 Overview American Modern: Works from the Collection of Alice C. Simkinssurveys the brilliant innovations American artists brought forward in the first decades of the 20th century. This tightly focused exhibition features 17 works on paper by Oscar Bluemner, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Charles … -
January 27, 2015 - The 20th Annual “Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography” opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on Tuesday, February 3
What On Tuesday, February 3, 2015, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, debuts Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography, the annual photography exhibition that offers a unique view of Houston through the eyes of its students. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, May 10, 2015. Eye on Houstonfeatures photographs by students from three Houston-area high schools: Jack Yates … -
January 22, 2015 - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presents “Unfolding Worlds: Japanese Screens and Contemporary Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection” in March 2015
Exhibition features more than 25 large-scale screens along with important contemporary ceramics HOUSTON—January 22, 2014—In March, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Unfolding Worlds: Japanese Screens and Contemporary Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection, a remarkable selection of paintings and decorative arts that reveal three centuries of artistic traditions and styles. Amassed over … -
January 21, 2015 - “Mona Hatoum: Twelve Windows”
Title Mona Hatoum: Twelve Windows Dates January 8–February 8, 2015 Overview On the occasion of the 2015 Arts of the Islamic World Gala, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Twelve Windows, an installation conceived by the artist Mona Hatoum. Twelve Windows, 2012–13, was created in collaboration with Inaash, a Lebanese non-governmental organization founded in 1969 to create … -
January 21, 2015 - The MFAH Highlights Arts of the Islamic World Beginning in January
More than 250 Islamic masterworks from the renowned al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, will be on view Some 80 permanent-collection artworks and important local loans to be reinstalled in two dedicated galleries HOUSTON—January 21, 2015—January marks the opening of two important installations of Islamic art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A partnership with the Kuwait-based al-Sabah Collection … -
January 15, 2015 - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Unveils Designs for Campus Redevelopment, with more than 70 Percent of Funding Goal Secured
Steven Holl Architects’ visionary master plan encompasses 14-acre walkable campus, new gallery building for 20th- and 21st-century art, and new home for the Glassell School of Art Lake|Flato Architects to design state-of-the-art conservation center More than $330 million of $450-million capital and endowment fundraising goal achieved to date, primarily from Houston-based philanthropists HOUSTON— … -
December 2, 2014 - “Line: Making the Mark”
Title Line: Making the Mark Dates December 12, 2014–March 22, 2015 Overview With the advent of Modernism in the 20th century, line became its own definitive subject for artists, who no longer used it merely for representational purposes. Line: Making the Markexplores the sundry ways that artists, since that historic shift, make marks—either directly, by pressing pencil to paper or brushing ink … -
November 17, 2014 - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opens “Spectacular Rubens” in February 2015
Exhibition explores one of Peter Paul Rubens’s greatest achievements; reunites panel paintings with monumental tapestries from Spain Unprecedented loans from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge are unique to Houston presentation HOUSTON—November 17, 2014—In the early 1620s, Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) designed a series of 20 tapestries on the Triumph of the Eucharistthat … -
October 22, 2014 - “For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979” Debuts in Houston
More than 250 works include major loans and many never seen by U.S. audiences HOUSTON—October 22, 2014—The years from 1968 to 1979 in Japan are among “the missing pages in history,” according to influential architect Arata Isozaki, a time when the activist generation of the 1950s and 1960s was replaced by introspective young artists, writers, and intellectuals. In March 2015, the Museum of Fine …
