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The Glassell School of Art Mural Project: It’s Personal

Jun 23, 2016 - Thirty-two students from the A+ Unlimited Potential (A+UP) middle school recently took on the challenge of a colorful, larger-than-life collaboration: a mural for the Museum’s Cullen Sculpture Garden. “You can still see the distinctive, individual person in each panel; each student put a little bit of themselves in it,” he said. The unity and personality accurately reflect the A+UP program. You can see it in the exhibition A+rt Journeys in the Kinder Foundation Education Center Gallery.

Live Collage Event | Portraits by James Gallagher

November 20–23, 2025The MFA Shop presents a live collage event with artist James Gallagher. Bring a friend—or a photo of yourself—and watch as Gallagher crafts a portrait on the spot! <a href="https://www.mfah.org/calendar/spring-nights-at-the-mfah/202504121800">Spring Nights at the MFAHa>

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• Purchase a live portrait collage: $150 for individuals; $200 for couples; $250 for 3+
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• Separation from Home: Pepón Osorio & “Badge of Honor”

  Jan 5, 2018 - In Badge of Honor, a two-room installation on view in the exhibition HOME—So Different, So Appealing, Pepón Osorio examines what “home” is like for a family separated by a father’s incarceration. For many, the idea of a perfect home is far from reality. Telling a real family’s story, Badge of Honor features a teenage boy’s bedroom—teeming with pop-culture objects from the 1990s—next to his father’s austere prison cell.

• Local High Schoolers Share Glimpses of the Bayou City

  Jan 23, 2017 - Being a part of a roller derby team is such an uplifting experience. A roller derby team is like a good cookie recipe: each ingredient complements each other to create a fantastic final product. . © Gabriela Santa Houston is a beautiful city with many hidden secrets. This was captured sometime after a long and harsh Houston flood. He didn’t have a problem telling anyone how he felt. He knows that he’s right.

• The Crime Is Mine (Mon crime)

  After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits—until the truth comes out. Isabelle Huppert appears as a fading silent-film star in François Ozon’s frothy story of murder, romance, blackmail, girl power, and a bit of French film history. As Paste observes, “the costumes by frequent Ozon collaborator Pascaline Chavanne are all divine, with not a wig out of place. The Crime Is Mine has layers of textbook farce decorated with a confectioner’s critique.”

• Virtual Cinema | Musician Ben Model Returns for Another Silent-Film Concert

  Apr 22, 2021 - He enjoys the livestreams because they “combine the excitement of a live performance with the informality of a friend inviting you over for a movie.” In Celebration of MothersBecause this program follows Mother’s Day, Model accepted our challenge to feature a movie with a memorable mother. A Few Words from Harold Lloyd’s DaughterSuzanne Lloyd, Harold’s daughter, is devoted to his legacy and maintains a website about her legendary father.

• Virtual Cinema | French Film Festival | March 3–28

  Feb 16, 2021 - My Donkey, My Lover & I is a female-directed comedy about a schoolteacher (Laure Calamy) spontaneously deciding to secretly follow her married lover and his family on a hiking vacation. Your ticket ($10 per film / $80 for a 10-film pass) supports the MFAH and provides a 2-day window to view each film. In Tazzeka, a Moroccan chef learns the ropes in Paris, and in Sol, a famous tango dancer re-evaluates her past mistakes.

• Virtual Cinema “Rififi” and “Lucky Grandma”

  Jun 22, 2020 - Fresh out of prison and eager to settle the score, he assembles a group of ex-cons to carry out the elaborate robbery of a Paris jewelry store. Immerse yourself in two brilliantly different takes on the cinematic heist: a timeless classic and a breakout debut. Rififi “The best film noir I have ever seen.” Chin is cast as the ornery, newly widowed, chain-smoking Grandma Wong, who heads to the casino after being promised luck by a fortune teller but soon lands at the center of a local gang war.

• Mysterious Symbols: Rienzi’s “Masonic Punch Bowl”

  Sep 27, 2018 - —“To a Fly, Taken out of a Punch Bowl” by Peter Pindar, 1792 With mysterious symbols and a history that spans centuries and continents, this Masonic Punch Bowl tells many stories. Punch became a popular drink in England, and as Henry Fielding wrote in The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, “If we must drink, let us have a bowl of punch—a liquor I rather prefer, as it is nowhere spoken against in Scripture A Craze for Punch “Punch” comes from a Hindi word for the number five, reflecting the number of major ingredients: alcohol, sugar, citrus, spices, and water.

• The Settlers (Los colonos)

  A visceral reckoning with national myth, The Settlers is a revisionist, anticolonialist western marking the debut of writer-director Felipe Gálvez Haberle, a revelatory new cinematic voice. Accompanying a British lieutenant and an American mercenary is a mestizo marksman, who comes to realize the true mission is to violently “remove” the Indigenous population. Three horsemen embark on an expedition, tasked with securing a wealthy landowner’s vast property.