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William Kentridge: Zeno Writing

In 2002, South African artist William Kentridge was invited to create a new work for Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany. Zeno mirrored Kentridge's own fascination with “people stuck at the edge of a historical project about to implode, stuck waiting for the eruption to happen.”

Statements: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection

Viewed as pioneers, these leaders and mentors are celebrated not only for their forward-looking work, but also for the recognition they received that helped break down institutional barriers.

Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst

Trammell The catalogue for this exhibition receives generous funding from the Netherland-America Foundation. Seventeenth-century Dutch artist Willem van Aelst painted still lifes that are remarkable for their fine finish, carefully balanced composition, elegant subject matter, and rich, jewel-toned palette.

“Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism” Opens at the MFAH February 25, 2024

Nov 2, 2023 - Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press, it is available for purchase from the Met Store. Co-organized by the MFAH and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the exhibition chronicles, for the first time in the U.S., the creative partnership that led to a boldly inventive style of modernist painting HOUSTON—November Matisse arrived first in Collioure with his wife Amélie and two sons, and later urged the younger Derain to join him for a few weeks to sketch and paint along the beaches and forests in the foothills of the Pyrénées.

Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road

See the trailer for the traveling series Portraits Along the Road.

QFest: The Annual Houston International LGBTQ Film Festival

The Museum joins venues throughout Houston for QFest. The 23rd edition of the annual LGBTQ film festival offers a fresh, topical, and fascinating selection of films that have been popular on the international circuit.

MFAH Announces Establishment of $50,000 Edelman Impact Award in Photography and First Winner

Apr 20, 2026 - 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 For the artist, these interventions marring the photographic surface not only symbolize the struggles of his subjects, but also represent their resistance and communal hope. The panel of jurors for the inaugural Edelman Impact Award comprised Deborah Willis (Professor of Photography and Imaging, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts), Susan Meiselas (Photographer and President of the Magnum

Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher

Escher’s graphic work not only makes obvious use of geometry but often provides visual metaphors for abstract mathematical concepts. Escher: Visions of Symmetry, and with graphic designer Wallace Walker she designed polyhedral forms covered with Escher tessellations for the book M.C. Escher. Kaleidocycles. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive endowment funds provided by Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for

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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