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Special Installation in the Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries: “Sea of Ink, Forest of Pens: The Art of the Qurʾan in the Hossein Afshar Collection”

Aug 13, 2025 - The MFAH is also home to the Glassell School of Art, with its Core Residency Program and Junior and Studio schools; and the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), a leading research institute for 20th-century HOUSTON—August 13, 2025—A special installation is on view through June 2026 in the MFAH Hossein Afshar Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds.

In March 2025 MFAH Presents “Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries”

Dec 18, 2024 - The MFAH is also home to the Glassell School of Art, with its Core Residency Program and Junior and Studio schools; and the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), a leading research institute for 20th-century We are grateful for this partnership and very pleased to present these tour-de-force works of art in Houston.” About The Museum Box The Museum Box is an international strategy and traveling exhibitions partner for museums.

Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time

Oct 7, 2010 - For additional information please contact: MFAH Communications 713-639-75554 The starting point for Cruz-Diez’s chromatic investigations is the unstable nature of color. For more than five decades Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923) has intensively experimented with the origins and optics of color.

A Radical Concept: Fall into “Pratone”

Mar 25, 2020 - Pratone—a stand-out work in the exhibition Radical: Italian Design 1965–1985, The Dennis Freedman Collection—draws upon nature, Pop Art, and innovative functionality, culminating in an inviting patch of foam grass that was designed for

Mahjong 101 at Rienzi

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Tickets for June 27 are sold out.

Finntastic!

Special thanks to Alissa Simon for programming and coordinating the U.S. tour.

Photo-Mania: The Levine Ramey Collection of Vernacular Photography

Aug 6, 2020 - Although many items in the collection were originally mass-produced for the public, they have become extremely scarce over time and cannot be found in any other private or public collection. Photo-Mania Artists and archivists Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey diligently curated this collection over the course of 30 years, and they affectionately refer to it as “Photo-Mania”—an appropriate nickname for the joy, wonder

Family Art Activity: Foil Engraving with Rienzi

May 3, 2020 - The collection at Rienzi, the MFAH house museum for European decorative arts, showcases an array of artists’ techniques, including excellent examples of engraved silver. Families, get ready for a special art activity with Ryan Hernandez, the learning & interpretation coordinator at Rienzi. Artists of all ages can make a foil engraving just like the work of skillful silversmiths! 

Radical Ink: “Beautifully Packed Dynamite” of El Techo de la Ballena

Jan 9, 2019 - Edmundo Aray and Rodolfo Izaguire foldout designed for El Techo de la Ballena, Rayado sobre el techo (Scratched on the Roof), n° 2, May 1963, Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.   The Power of Print In addition to exhibitions, performances, and multidisciplinary interventions, the artists of El Techo de la Ballena developed an active printing culture, allowing for the mass distribution of illustrated poems

Members Preview “Virtual Realities: The Art of M.C. Escher”

Ticket availability cannot be guaranteed for drop-in visits. Safety Guidelines A risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public setting. He was heralded in the 1960s and 1970s and is treasured today for his mind-bending works. Virtual Realities features hundreds of objects, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks, and working tools.