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Handling “Ron Mueck”: An Interview with Chief Preparator Dale Benson

Mar 24, 2017 - I’ve been in preparations for more than 25 years, and this exhibition is unique—simply because Ron Mueck’s sculptures are so lifelike. I’m constantly waiting for a chest to breathe or an eye to blink. The very large, monumental pieces are, for their size, extremely light. If they were made of solid wood or stone rather than fiberglass and silicon rubber, they would require special lifting equipment.

Lecture | Archaeology Now—Marsh Arabs “The World’s Oldest Tavern”

Everything for a delightful meal was available: a room containing benches for comfort, an industrial-size oven that certainly churned out delicious delicacies, a large grill still holding a fish, ancient food remains in hundreds 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

Author Talk | “The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters”

For his work promoting Lispector’s work internationally, he was awarded Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. For Sontag: Her Life and Work, Moser received the Pulitzer Prize.

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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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