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This installation is located on Level 1 of the Law Building. This special installation features Frankenthaler’s continued innovation, as she embraced an expanded vocabulary of painterly effects through the use of complementary colors. Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map
Helen Frankenthaler: The Joy of Color / June 3, 2026–September 20, 2026 "Helen Frankenthaler: The Joy of Color" is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Schedule
Open 5:30–9 pm on December 7, 10, 11, 17, 18, 29, 30
Open 5:30–10 pm on December 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20 members (ages 13+), $10 MFAH members (ages 5–12)
Free (ages 4 & younger)
A house-tour upgrade adds $5 to each admission (including to the free tickets for young children)
Premium Night Tickets | December 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20
Starring Claudia Cardinale, who earned her first major acting award for her performance, and George Chakiris (West Side Story). Special thanks to our cultural partner Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, Professor Alessandro Carrera from the University of Houston, and Kate MacKay, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
Mar 27, 2018 -
“I have admired Anish Kapoor’s work for more than 20 years. Cloud Column has been sited on the plaza of the Glassell School of Art, which opens to the public on May 20. Plaza of the MFAH open to the public on Sunday, May 20, the first phase in the Museum’s campus-redevelopment project.
See the work of David Hockney and Vincent van Gogh side-by-side in Hockney – Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature. Hockney – Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature | February 21–June 20, 2021
Tickets, Exchanges & Refunds• Tickets include Museum general admission.• Advance tickets are strongly recommended because of the low capacity available during Select your date and visit time carefully, as tickets cannot be exchanged. To allow as many guests and members as possible to experience the exhibition, tickets that have been issued, but not used, will not be replaced.
Aug 9, 2013 -
After Turrell and our curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects, Alison de Lima Greene, agreed upon the exhibition design, most of the nuts-and-bolts planning was done through the office of our associate director in charge Toward the end, we all worked together with Turrell fairly intensely to get the lighting effects exactly right.
SS: Can you explain what Baltic Studio is and how it’s associated with the artist? RL: Matt set up Baltic Studio in Brooklyn, New York, to handle the technical side of Turrell’s light installations. In addition to working as Turrell’s most trusted collaborator, Matt is an artist in his own right.
Tickets
$24 per person
$20 for MFAH members
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Tickets include admission to the MFAH Permanent Collections and all special exhibitions.
No need to find a group on your own to book this tour. Join fellow art enthusiasts for a private group tour through the exhibition Buddha / Nature: Five Dialogues on Our Shared World. Explore and learn how Buddhist wisdom can inform our approach to climate crisis through the pairing of Buddhist sculpture with contemporary artworks.
Tickets
$9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+)
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This screening takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building. In Our Land, director Lucrecia Martel (The Headless Woman) explores the 2009 murder of Javier Chocobar, a member of Argentina’s Indigenous Chuschagasta community who tried to defend them from being forcibly evicted by a local
Jan 7, 2021 -
“This exhibition offers visitors an extraordinary opportunity to see these two visionary artists side-by-side,” said Gary Tinterow, MFAH Director, the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair. Inaugurated in 2019 by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Hockney-Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature will be on view in Houston—the only U.S. venue—from February 21 through June 20. “We are delighted to collaborate with David Hockney and the Van Gogh Museum to bring these exceptional works to our audience in Houston.”
“Hockney once asked, ‘How can you be bored with nature?’
