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BLOCK 10: Celebrating a Decade of the BLOCK Program

Plan Your Visit Admission is free. The exhibition is located in Orton and Bucher Galleries at the Glassell School of Art.

Calaveras Mexicanas: The Art and Influence of José Guadalupe Posada

Enhance Your Visit  A Looking Activity: Calaveras at the Museum José Guadalupe Posada is not the only artist to incorporate calaveras. 

Perspectives on Contemporary Jewelry: An International Symposium

Register here for the livestream. A boxed lunch can be ordered for an additional fee. Plan Your Visit Capacity is limited. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration for in-person attendance has reached capacity. You may still register here for the livestream.   She co-curated The Jewelry of Dorothea Prühl and Going Underground: The Jewels of Bernhard Schobinger, the first major US museum presentations for both artists.

¡Viva la Frida! Presented by Art Crowd

Plan Your Visit This event takes place in the Law Building and the Lower Level of the Kinder Building. Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map Questions? Tickets $35 per adult (21+) Free for members of the Art Crowd patron group Each admission includes one drink ticket Know Before You Go This event is for ages 21+ Ernesto Neto: SunForceOceanLife is a special installation with Dress as Frida Kahlo for the chance to win a grand-prize package in a Frida Kahlo look-alike contest.  

Degas Retrospective Debuts in the U.S. at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in October

Apr 11, 2016 - A trip to visit his mother’s family in Louisiana produced his famous A Cotton Market in New Orleans (1873). Still, Degas continued to mine his earlier work for poses and postures. “After a great many essays and experiments and trial shots in all directions, he has fallen in love with modern life,” the great critic, artist, and writer Edmond de Goncourt wrote in 1874, following a visit to Degas’s studio.

Frida: The Making of an Icon

Plan Your Visit This exhibition is located on Level 2 of the Law Building. For a limited time, experience the glow any day after sunset—it’s the perfect backdrop for your very own Frida-inspired self-portrait. Free Audio Guide in English and SpanishWhen you visit, hear from curators and scholars as they explore the legacy and influence of Frida Kahlo. 

Lecture | Tamara de Lempicka in Fashion

Plan Your Visit Free with Museum admission This lecture takes place in Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren

David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)

Plan Your Visit Tickets available soon. This exhibition is located on Level 1 of the Beck Building. Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map

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Writers Remix | "Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen"

Plan Your Visit Included with Museum admission This event takes place on Level 1 of the Beck Building. She is the co-founder of Infrarrealista Review, works as an associate for Letras Latinas, and moonlights as DJ Mexistentialism.   She is the author of What Remains, winner of the 2020 Host Publications Chapbook Prize, and recipient of the Naomi Shihab Nye First Book of Poetry Award for the past is a jean jacket.

Poetry Recital | In the Rose Garden: Poetic Responses to Sa‘di

Plan Your Visit This program is included with Museum admission. The event takes place in the Hossein Afshar Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds on Level 1 of the Law Building. The writers will read their works alongside a 19th-century illustrated copy of the Gulistan from the Indian kingdom of Alwar on view in the Hossein Afshar Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds.