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Italian Interlude

Present your ticket from any film in the series to receive 10% off your food order, plus a special price of only $5 for a glass of wine.

The “Confident Exuberance” of Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood

Nov 2, 2018 - It is particularly exciting to see Hood’s final canvases of the 1980s side-by-side with Nevelson’s Mirror Shadow XII—compositions that explode with barely contained energy. To the best of our knowledge, Louise Nevelson and Dorothy Hood never met, although their lives intersected in interesting ways. They had friends and acquaintances in common, including Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

Virtual Cinema | See Critically Acclaimed Films This Winter

Dec 7, 2020 - Two critically celebrated dramas in our virtual theater may have additional honors to come. Filmed in shimmering 16mm, Ghost Tropic follows a woman traversing Brussels over the course of one night, revealing the very human side of a modern metropolis. As Karen Fang, a member of the Museum’s film subcommittee, says about Coded Bias, “a documentary critique of the destructive prejudices built into our technologies and social structures may not seem like an obvious movie choice

Helen Frankenthaler: The Joy of Color

Plan Your Visit 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.

The Thing

Tickets $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Plan Your Visit This screening takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building. A masterpiece of paranoid sci-fi horror, The Thing’s cultural significance lies in pioneering, groundbreaking, grotesque practical effects, subverting the heroic tropes of its predecessors.

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