Press Room
For general media inquiries, please contact the MFAH Press Office at press@mfah.org or 713.800.5362
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December 18, 2024 - First Major US Retrospective of Art Deco Icon Tamara de Lempicka Arrives at the MFAH in March 2025
Tamara de Lempicka—the first major museum survey devoted to the artist in the United States—explores Lempicka’s distinctive style and unconventional life through over 90 paintings and drawings, which range from her first post-Cubist compositions and her coming of age in 1920s Paris, to her most famous nudes and portraits of the 1930s, to the melancholic still lifes and interiors of the 1940s.
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December 18, 2024 - MFAH to Host National Touring Retrospective of Groundbreaking 20th-Century Artist Toshiko Takaezu, Beginning March 2, 2025
Featuring some 100 objects from public and private collections across the country, Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within presents a comprehensive portrait of Takaezu’s life and work. This retrospective charts the development of Takaezu’s hybrid practice over seven decades.
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December 18, 2024 - In March 2025 MFAH Presents “Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries”
Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries presents seven lavish tapestries that depict the battle of Pavia, commemorating Holy Roman Emperor Charles V’s decisive victory over French King Francis I. The tapestries are monumental in scale—each measuring about 28 feet wide and 14 feet high—drawing viewers into the world of Renaissance history, military technology, and fashion.
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December 12, 2024 - The MFAH Presents “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond,” in January 2025
Featuring over 70 works of art in a variety of media, Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond explores how the genre of landscape evolved during an era of immense transformation in Britain.
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November 19, 2024 - The MFAH Brings a Unique Notre-Dame Cathedral Immersive Experience to Houston, Beginning November 23
To celebrate next month’s public reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, newly restored five years after its devastating fire, this exhibition brings visitors into a virtual, three-dimensional model of the iconic cathedral.
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August 22, 2024 - MFAH Presents “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” in October, the First Community-Curated Native American Exhibition at the Museum
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, opening October 20, 2024, will foreground Pueblo voices and aesthetics and offer a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience.
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August 7, 2024 - Exploring 4,000 Years of Spiritual Belief and Practice through 200 Great Works of Art in the Exhibition “Living with the Gods,” Opening in October
In October, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will present “Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples,” an expansive exhibition of more than 200 objects made over 4,000 years in order to help humans make contact with the divine.
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July 18, 2024 - “Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography” Opens September 29, 2024, in the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building of the MFAH
The exhibition Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography opens September 29, 2024, in the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building of the MFAH.
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June 24, 2024 - The MFAH Is the Exclusive U.S. Venue for “Gauguin in the World,” Opening in November 2024
This ambitious exhibition of the work of French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin offers new perspectives on Gauguin’s life and work, artistic networks and influences, and contemporary legacies, both artistic and historical.
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June 6, 2024 - Opening at the MFAH June 9: “Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West”
The nationally touring Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West features intricate paintings of dreamlike realms that deftly unite Eastern and Western artistic traditions.
