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  1. Make Your Own Paintings Inspired by “Three Centuries of American Art”

    Jul 15, 2021 - Let’s make art! When you explore the MFAH galleries, think about the artists’ inspirations and let the works of art inspire you to create your own masterpieces. Two special paintings inspired these art activities. Use the step-by-step activity guides and how-to videos below to make art at home. Let’s get started!  Art-Making Activity | Let’s Layer with Paint• Download the Activity Guide “Exploring Positive and Negative Space”  Art-Making Activity | Let’s Make a Watercolor• Download the Activity Guide “Exploring Paint Resists and Application

  2. Art, Place, and Power: Project Row Houses in Houston's Third Ward

    Like the nearby textiles produced in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, these works celebrate the powerful impact of community-oriented artists and art.   Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map Art, Place, and Power: Project Row Houses in Houston's Third Ward / November 4, 2025–November 8, 2026 This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The installation Art, Place, and Power: Project Row Houses in Houston’s Third Ward features works on paper by founders of Project Row Houses, including James Bettison, Bert Long, Jr., Jesse Lott, Rick Lowe, and Floyd Newsum, and

  3. Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

    Major support provided by:       Additional generous support provided by:The African American Art Advisory Association (5A) at the MFAH The MFAH presentation adds a section with a number of works from the Museum’s collections to spotlight the legacy of Black American art made in Houston and Texas during this period. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, featuring work by more than 60 Black artists that was created over two revolutionary decades in American history. 

  4. Unrivalled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art

    The wide array, from courtly to popular works of art, reveals overlapping themes in Japanese art. The MFAH presents 85 selections from their holdings in Unrivalled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art. Over the next four decades they amassed 300 objects, building one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Japanese art outside of Japan.

  5. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art

    This exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. An unrivaled loan in the National Gallery's history, this exhibition offers a splendid overview of one of the greatest periods in European art and a survey of movements that changed the course of art history. A collection of true national treasures—50 of the finest Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC—travels to Houston while the galleries that house the NGA's 19th-century

  6. Reflections of a New World: Japanese Protest and Art on Film

    The exhibition For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979 explores the struggle of Japanese artists to forge a new identity during a time of political and social turmoil.

  7. Silver: An American Art—Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    Silver: An American Art—Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston showcases these important new additions to the collection, all created in America between 1870 and 1960.

  8. 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 - Latin American and Latino art. Celebrating the art of the Qurʾan and publication of the book Sea of Ink, Forest of Pens: The Art of the Qurʾan in the Hossein Afshar Collection, the presentation highlights a dozen masterworks that span from the 7th through the 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.

  9. Black Art through the Lens: “Soul of a Nation” Virtual Panel Discussion

    Jul 20, 2020 - “Black Art through the Lens” is the second of five livestream panel discussions accompanying Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. Smith’s photography is held in the collections of institutions including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Before or after, experience Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at the MFAH, the final venue for the exhibition’s three-year tour. Plan ahead for your visit.

  10. Panel Discussion & Art Preview | “What I Know and When I Knew It”

    their own art. February 18, 2024As part of Black Art Houston, the Glassell School of Art hosts a discussion and art preview showcasing the community program “What I Know and When I Knew It: Centering Stories and Artistry in Houston’s Third & An art preview featuring work by the first cohort follows in Orton Gallery.