Press Room
For general media inquiries, please contact the MFAH Press Office at press@mfah.org or 713.800.5362
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July 23, 2019 - “Miss Ima Hogg & Modernism”
Title Miss Ima Hogg & Modernism Dates July 27–November 3, 2019 Overview The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Miss Ima Hogg & Modernism. The exhibition features some 50 works from the Museum’s permanent collection. Miss Ima Hogg is best known for her collection of early American decorative arts and paintings, which she donated to the MFAH, along with her home, as Bayou Bend Collection … -
June 6, 2019 - Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors” on view at the MFAH this summer
An immersive, nine-screen video installation by renowned Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors highlights his use of durational performance to capture collective emotion.
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June 6, 2019 - “Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum’s Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11”
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Shooting the Moon features 40 photographs ranging from documentary images of NASA’s mission to the moon to fanciful pictures including a 19th-century portrait of a man in a solar-themed costume.
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April 24, 2019 - ”Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography” Opens in June at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Icons of Style explores the rich and varied history of fashion photography through more than 200 photographs by famous practitioners as well as lesser-known, yet influential artists.
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April 4, 2019 - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents William Forsythe’s “Choreographic Objects,” opening in May 2019
HOUSTON—April 2019—This summer, William Forsythe: Choreographic Objectstransforms the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Cullinan Hall and adjacent galleries into a series of performative spaces welcoming visitors of all ages. Ranging in scale from a monumental, immersive installation to a single object meant to be held in the hand, the works in the exhibition bring together a focused selection of … -
March 12, 2019 - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, highlights Latin American and Latino art collection this spring in the exhibition “Between Play and Grief”
HOUSTON—March 2019—The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Between Play and Grief: Selections from the Latino American Collection, an exhibition featuring a survey of works from the MFAH collection of Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx art. The exhibition will be on view from March 16 to September 8, 2019.Timed to coincide with the Latino Art Now! Conference organized by the … -
February 20, 2019 - First Major Retrospective of American Photographer Sally Mann Travels to the MFAH in March 2019
The images in Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings convey the renowned photographer’s relationship with the American South HOUSTON—February 20, 2019—For more than 40 years, Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s magisterial indifference to human endeavor. In … -
February 20, 2019 - “Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017” Opens March 3 at the MFAH
Forty sculptures by the American artist interweave traditions of African, European, and ancient art for contemporary audiences HOUSTON—February 20, 2019—The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017—the first major exhibition dedicated to sculptures by renowned American contemporary artist Jack Whitten. While Whitten has long been celebrated for his work as … -
January 16, 2019 - MFAH Presents the 24th Annual “Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography” Exhibition
Title Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography When January 16–August 11, 2019 Overview The 24th edition of Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photographyopens today, January 16, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The annual photography exhibition is a collaboration between the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and area high schools to document and celebrate Houston’s … -
December 6, 2018 - Van Gogh survey opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in March 2019
“Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art” explores the artist through rarely loaned paintings and drawings from throughout the decade of his career Organized by the MFAH in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo HOUSTON—December 2018—Few artists have left behind as complete an account of their life and work as Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). In March 2019, …
