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Our Land (Nuestra tierra)

Tickets $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Plan Your Visit This screening takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building. In Our Land, director Lucrecia Martel (The Headless Woman) explores the 2009 murder of Javier Chocobar, a member of Argentina’s Indigenous Chuschagasta community who tried to defend them from being forcibly evicted by a local

In Our Day

One day, each receives a visit from a different young aspiring artist, who come equipped with questions about their careers and life itself.

The MFAH Presents “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond,” in January 2025

Dec 12, 2024 - “The Museum had only a handful of British drawings before this initiative began and the Stuart Collection has now become a hallmark at our institution. Its cornerstone is Constable’s A View on the Banks of the River Stour (1809-16), an oil sketch that showcases the artist’s mastery at capturing fleeting atmospheric effects as he sketched in open air.

Latin Wave Celebrates 11 Great Years

Apr 21, 2016 - I Promise You Anarchy reflects an edgier side of Mexican cinema, spotlighting urban youth in Mexico City, as we also seen in Güeros last year and The Cinema Hold-Up several years ago. Ixcanul I always encourage filmgoers to come to the screenings presented by our guest filmmakers, who make Latin Wave even more special. Latin Wave, our biggest annual film festival, returns from April 28 to May 1 with 11 new films from Latin America. Every year is a little different: The 2016 selection has a strong theme of young protagonists coming of age.

Studio & Gallery Visit | "In Living Color"

Plan Your Visit Admission is free. No RSVP required. This event takes place on Level 3 of the Glassell School of Art. The Jubilee Quilt Circle of the Community Artists' Collective invites you to visit their studio space at the Glassell School of Art.

The “Confident Exuberance” of Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood

Nov 2, 2018 - It is particularly exciting to see Hood’s final canvases of the 1980s side-by-side with Nevelson’s Mirror Shadow XII—compositions that explode with barely contained energy. To the best of our knowledge, Louise Nevelson and Dorothy Hood never met, although their lives intersected in interesting ways. They had friends and acquaintances in common, including Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

Our Tiny Little Wedding (Notre tout petit petit mariage)

Happy couple Lou and Max badly want to adopt a baby. They’ve created a picture-perfect profile, including lying about their income, families, and living situation. Now all that’s left is to get married—in the simplest, …

Virtual Cinema | See Critically Acclaimed Films This Winter

Dec 7, 2020 - Two critically celebrated dramas in our virtual theater may have additional honors to come. Filmed in shimmering 16mm, Ghost Tropic follows a woman traversing Brussels over the course of one night, revealing the very human side of a modern metropolis. As Karen Fang, a member of the Museum’s film subcommittee, says about Coded Bias, “a documentary critique of the destructive prejudices built into our technologies and social structures may not seem like an obvious movie choice

“Beauty Everywhere” in Vincent van Gogh’s Paintings of Flowers

Feb 27, 2019 - The artist’s fascination with the theory of comple­mentary colors appears in the effects of yellow against purple (now faded to blue) and green.

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