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David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)

Plan Your Visit Tickets available soon. This exhibition is located on Level 1 of the Beck Building. Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map 50-minute journey through 60 years of Hockney’s work.   --

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The David B. Warren Houston Antiques Symposium “American Roots: Genealogy in the Decorative Arts"

Warren Symposium Endowment; Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities; Marilyn G. Lummis; and The Summerlee Foundation.   $225 General Admission $175 MFAH Members $50 Students (Limited Quantity) Unable to attend in person?Talks and presentations are live-streamed via Zoom. Learn more and register   The David B.

Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art

 Información en español sobre la exposición The MFAH is the only venue for this major survey that brings together more than 50 masterworks by one of the most iconic artists in the history of Western art. For the best chance of ticket availability, visit on a weekday. • What should I expect if I get tickets? A limited number of tickets are sold for each hour during Museum operating hours. Visitors still have the opportunity to experience the exhibition, because tickets are available for purchase at any admissions desk on the day of your visit.

Latin Wave Celebrates 11 Great Years

Apr 21, 2016 - See the schedule for Latin Wave 11. We get absorbed in their lives, and come to sympathize with them and advocate for them to triumph over difficult situations. Ixcanul I always encourage filmgoers to come to the screenings presented by our guest filmmakers, who make Latin Wave even more special.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Unveils Designs for Campus Redevelopment, with more than 70 Percent of Funding Goal Secured

Jan 15, 2015 - Sarofim ($70 million) and the Kinder Foundation ($50 million). “Our L-shaped Glassell School of Art building is a key part of our overall space-shaping strategy. I am very proud to embark on our largest transformation yet, adding to our distinguished existing architectural heritage,” said MFAH Director Gary Tinterow.

Must-See Art This Fall, Handpicked by MFAH Curatorial Staff

Sep 20, 2016 - Read the curators’ notes, then find the autumn-inspired art on view in our permanent collection galleries! Orangey reds, golden yellows, velvety browns are hard to come by in Houston’s eternal summer, but a visit to the Arts of China gallery can satisfy the need to admire some fall colors. As fall approaches with colder weather, and leaves begin to change color, I imagine many us will want to wrap up in our own quilts at home.

Musiqa Mixer | “Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West”

The evening features a program of music for flute and cello. Caio Diniz and Tyler Martin perform works by Reena Esmail, Ashan Srinivasan, and Reza Vali. Plan Your Visit This concert is free with Museum admission. Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map About MusiqaLed by four composers, Musiqa’s mission is to enrich and inspire our community through programs that integrate new music with other modern art-forms. 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

He Makes Their Personalities Jump off the Screen

Jul 16, 2015 - Join us for our screenings of Grey Gardens (July 26) and Iris (August 30).   Our first presentation of Iris sold out, so we're showing it again—twice!—on Sunday, August 30. Tickets, trailers & more info > mfah.org/films They codirected important documentaries and are probably best known for Gimme Shelter, the 1970 concert film about the Rolling Stones. Albert's path to filmmaking has roots in his psychology degree.

Cosmic Dialogues: Selections from the Latin American Collection

This exhibition features nearly 50 significant sculptures and drawings created over the past 70 years, including immersive light installations, rarely seen works on paper, and masterpieces of Kinetic art. In the 1960s and 1970s, she developed a structural method for drawing in space with a series of flexible, hanging net sculptures made of stainless-steel wire. At a time when few paid attention to the physical depletion of the planet, The Hydrospatial City—begun in 1946 and completed in 1972—was both a sounding alarm and a poetic manifesto for survival in space.

Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona

Adler Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP The catalogue for this exhibition receives funding from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund. Aires, Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona is the first exhibition to focus on this iconic series and Berni’s related series of monumental “Monsters,” as well as the first Berni exhibition organized by a U.S. museum in nearly 50 But in the mid-1950s, motivated by the social distress and poverty he witnessed in Argentina amid social unrest and the country’s industrialization, Berni abandoned painting for assemblage.