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  1. Visions of Saints

    This in-focus selection of nine prints and drawings highlights images of saints from the late 16th through 18th centuries and celebrates the museum’s recent acquisition of Guido Reni’s beautiful chalk drawing Head of a …

  2. Working in the Abstract: Rethinking the Literal

    Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas."

  3. Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph

    Houston is the only U.S. venue for the first major retrospective devoted to Austrian photographer and scientist Heinrich Kühn. An important figure in the international Pictorialist movement of the early 1900s, Kühn (1866– …

  4. Introducing the New Book “Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston”

    Nov 15, 2020 - responsible for the collections of 20th- and 21st-century art at the Museum. “This book highlights the art collections that are shown in the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building and elsewhere on the Sarofim Campus, while charting the Museum’s involvement with modern art over the last century and the ensuing To commemorate the opening of the building, the MFAH presents Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

  5. Art You Can Live With: A Look inside the Re-Installed Arts of Japan Gallery

    Aug 18, 2017 - The major art mediums of Edo-period Japan—painting, ceramics, basket weaving, and textiles—are all represented and remain relevant in modern Japan. A Place of Comfort Although the Arts of Japan Gallery houses several impressive works of art, their ties to domesticity create a space that is surprisingly intimate. Ueno Masao, Inside Out, 2000 Contemporary Bamboo Another display contains contemporary art, such as Ueno Masao’s Inside Out, which puts a twist on traditional bamboo basket weaving.

  6. Members Event | Art-Making Activity for Families “Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955”

    January 6, 2023 MFAH members are invited to reserve tickets for an art-making activity led by a teaching artist. This edition is inspired by the exhibition Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955.

  7. Members Event | Art-Making Activity for Families “Beauty and Ritual: Judaica from the Jewish Museum”

    SOLD OUTMembers Event | Art-Making Activity for Families MFAH members at the Family level and above are invited to reserve tickets for an afternoon of art-making activities. Providing inspiration for your creations are the works of art in the exhibition Beauty and Ritual: Judaica from the Jewish Museum, New York. Tickets | FreeLimit of 5 tickets per family.

  8. The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

    Exhibition Shop and Catalogue Visit the Great French Impressionists Shop for a variety of merchandise related to the art on view. The acclaimed international tour of The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute concludes in Houston at the MFAH. This exhibition is organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

  9. MFAH Appoints Brittany Webb as a Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art

    Jun 12, 2025 - American art within an international context.”  of its 200th anniversary; another for the forthcoming Birmingham Museum of Art collection catalogue Roll Call: 200 Years of Black American Art; and Determined to Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden (2023). that Brittany Webb will join the MFAH as a curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art.

  10. “Adios Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950” Opens This March, in Houston

    Feb 2, 2017 - Prior to being appointed director of the Walker Art Center in 2008, Viso had been curator of contemporary art, then director, of the Hirshhorn. fundamental to research in Latin American and Latino art. Artists Sandú Darié, Loló Soldevilla, and others in the 1950s sought to establish an avant-garde art group to introduce a universal approach to art, following a spirit of modernization.