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  1. Infinite Pause: Photography and Time at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    May 18, 2016 - A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Edgerton transformed the stroboscope into a device commonly used in photography to capture movements or events too fleeting to be seen by the naked eye, earning him the time in an instant and to capture its extended duration, immortalizing people and moments that have already passed. At the opposite end of the spectrum from Edgerton’s instantaneity, photographs in the third section employ extended exposures to dive into the density and movement of light built up over time.

  2. “Beauty Everywhere” in Vincent van Gogh’s Paintings of Flowers

    Feb 27, 2019 - Van Gogh’s first exposure to works by the Impressionists and Pointillists dates to this period, but rather than just imitating them, he delved into the field of color theory, as Roses and Peonies shows. The painting vibrates with life, thanks to energetic brushstrokes and use of vivid hues. —Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh sought solace in the natural world, to which he returned time and again for artistic inspiration.

  3. Architecture Lecture | Saarinen House at Cranbrook: A Total Work of Art

    Each object—from fork to table to tapestry, and from building to fountain to landscape—plays a part in an ambitious artistic and educational vision. modern design to Houston and inspired a generation. Before coming to Cranbrook, Adkisson worked for Robert A.M.

  4. Hirsch Library Exhibition Tours

    Did you know that the Museum’s Hirsch Library is open to the public?  With thousands of art-related materials to choose from, the Hirsch library highlights the collection of rare books through engaging exhibitions that showcase recent acquisitions, exquisitely illustrated books, and rare printed

  5. Elegant Perfection: Masterpieces of Courtly and Religious Art from the Tokyo National Museum

    Dec 27, 2011 - to Contemporary Asian Art. This will be the first time for the Tokyo National Museum to approve long term loans to an American museum. “Thanks to the vision of the Asian communities in Houston, the space for Asian art at the MFAH has quadrupled, several significant art objects have joined the permanent collection and our commitment to Asian art exhibitions and

  6. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presents “Unfolding Worlds: Japanese Screens and Contemporary Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection” in March 2015

    Jan 22, 2015 - Through annual visits to Japan, Alice and I are continually discovering new artists and new areas of interest. The encyclopedic collection of the MFAH numbers some 65,000 works and spans the art of antiquity to the present. Displayed in concentrated groups and in relation to the painted screens, the ceramics demonstrate the breadth of aesthetics seen in the contemporary period.

  7. Garden Varieties: The Natural Beauty of “Garden Paradise”

    Jan 25, 2019 - Gardens of perpetual bliss with flowing waters are promised to the faithful in the Qur’an. Natural Patterns Artists often reduced floral and animal motifs to a few simplified forms or shapes and repeated them to create allover, decorative patterns, as exemplified by a lovely blue-and-white bottle from The al-Sabah Earthly Paradise in the Wagner Garden Carpet The earliest known Persian gardens date to antiquity and have inspired artists for centuries.

  8. Behind the Scenes with Bosch: Curators in Conversation

    Nov 28, 2016 - Even the great scholar Erwin Panofsky, who wrote a definitive history of early Netherlandish painting, got to Bosch and said, “No thanks, don’t know what to say about this.” Often they’re meant to be hellish, like our Saint Christopher painting. The fire in the background may relate to hell, or more specifically, the tragedy of the world.

  9. Artist Talk and Workshop | Calligraphy on the Silk Roads

    The program is open to art enthusiasts of all ages, including families with children. Tickets | SOLD OUT $10 per person. Museum admission is required in addition to the workshop ticket. Master calligrapher Haji Noor Deen returns to the MFAH for a hands-on workshop on the art of calligraphy on the Silk Roads. The first Chinese person to be awarded Certificate of Arabic Calligrapher in Egypt, he has developed a style that fuses Chinese and Arabic arts.

  10. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Continues Collection Series with “Statements: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection”

    Jan 20, 2016 - “Several years ago, the Museum launched a series of collection-based shows to bring these treasures to light. “The MFAH’s history of collecting African American art is closely tied to our immediate community,” Alison de Lima Greene added. “The deep resources of the Museum’s collection are relatively unknown to our larger public,” commented Gary Tinterow, director of the MFAH.