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  1. Mark Rothko: A Retrospective

    The MFAH is the sole U.S. venue to present Mark Rothko: A Retrospective, which draws upon the unrivaled holdings of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In 1986, the National Gallery of Art was the primary recipient of what are essentially “Rothko’s Rothkos,” the paintings the artist held within his own collection at the time of his death. Long recognized as among the foremost figures of the Abstract Expressionist vanguard, Mark Rothko embraced the possibility of beauty in pure abstraction with a painterly eloquence that gave a new voice to American art.

  2. Line: Making the Mark

    With the advent of Modernism in the 20th century, line became its own definitive subject for artists, who no longer used it merely for representational purposes. Line: Making the Mark presents examples created since that …

  3. Soto: The Houston Penetrable

    Jesús Rafael Soto’s signature Penetrables series is one of the great marvels of contemporary art. The Penetrables have come to define the fully immersive art experience for generations of participants. These works emphasize the artist’s specific contributions to Kinetic art, giving Museum visitors an understanding of the totality and complexity of ideas expressed by the Houston Penetrable.

  4. Recent Accessions in Design

    In recent years, the Museum’s Decorative Arts and Design Department has concentrated on adding outstanding examples of 20th- and 21st-century design to its collection. Global in scope, the collection traces the history of …

  5. Georges Braque: A Retrospective

    This definitive retrospective of the career of Georges Braque (1882–1963) presents more than 75 significant works of art. The exhibition draws on the deep collections of Braque’s work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, with additional loans gathered from public and private art collections across Europe and the United States. The selections range from the artist’s early, bold Fauvist paintings, to the radical Cubist compositions that shaped the course of Modern art, to the lyrical still lifes and landscape abstractions of his later years.

  6. Jan Banning: Bureaucratics

    Bureaucratics is the name Dutch photographer Jan Banning (born 1954) chose for his five-year survey of civil servants in eight countries: Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, Yemen, and the United States. …

  7. James Turrell: The Light Inside

    It was conceived in conjunction with concurrent exhibitions on view this summer at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Raised in a Quaker household and coming of age in the radical climate of the 1960s, Turrell has created some of the most beautiful art of our time, treating light as a material presence in perfectly calculated installations.

  8. 2013 Core Exhibition

    The acclaimed MFAH Core Program awards postgraduate residencies to exceptional visual artists and art scholars. Each spring, the participants present an exhibition of work created during that year’s residency. Established within the Glassell School of Art in 1982, the Core Program is designed for highly motivated artists who have completed their undergraduate or graduate training and are working to develop a sustainable practice. The Core Program at the Glassell School of Art receives generous funding from: The Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Foundation Andy Warhol Foundation The National Endowment for the Arts The following donors have underwritten

  9. Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (2013–2014)

    The collection preserves and presents all aspects of Islamic art and comprises more than 30,000 pieces.   The privately held al-Sabah Collection is one of the greatest collections of Islamic art in the world, and the partnership initiates a historic exchange of objects, staff, and expertise.

  10. 2012 Core Exhibition

    The essays explore topics from the alternative Houston art space the joanna to the soundscape work of Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh. The acclaimed MFAH Core Program awards residencies to emerging visual artists and art scholars. Each spring, the participants present an exhibition of work made during that year’s residency. The Core Program at the Glassell School of Art receives generous funding from: The Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Foundation Andy Warhol Foundation The National Endowment for the Arts The following donors have underwritten