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Virtual Cinema | The Lyrical and Provocative New Documentary “Acasă, My Home”

Jan 2, 2021 - Especially now, when many of us are not moving beyond our small circles, these cinematic opportunities to transcend the everyday are even more welcome and important. Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris and the Vaughn Foundation. It’s no surprise that Acasă, My Home won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival: The close-up and patient camera work lend a special intimacy to the viewing experience

Virtual Cinema | 2021 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation, Documentary & Live Action “Overview”

Mar 27, 2021 - minutes)• Focus on Opera | Former Pixar animator Erick Oh defines his Opera as a “contemporary animated edition of Renaissance fresco mural paintings that examines racism, terrorism, religion, war, and class struggle within our Your tickets ($12 each or $30 for the bundle) support the MFAH. The Oscars are presented on April 25. Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris and the Vaughn Foundation. Get the popcorn ready and choose your favorites for the Oscar pool. All three categories—Animation, Documentary, and Live Action—are available to stream from April 2 to May 2.

New Documentary “Film About a Father Who” Explores Intriguing Family Dynamics

Mar 3, 2021 - I have had so many conversations with people who told me that their experience of watching my film gave them insight into their own thinking about the imprint of our parents on all of us as children.” For film enthusiasts, it is noteworthy that Sachs takes inspiration for the film’s title from the avant-garde 1974 feature Film About a Woman Who. Sachs’s father, Ira Sachs, Sr. Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris and the Vaughn Foundation.

Book Launch | “Caption This”

From words scrawled on a Polaroid to comments on social media, captions play an important role in documenting the moments of our lives.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presents “Unfolding Worlds: Japanese Screens and Contemporary Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection” in March 2015

Jan 22, 2015 - The extraordinary Gitter-Yelen works will provide our audiences with the opportunity for in-depth study of this important field and its practitioners.” Ceramic art has been prized in Japan for centuries and remains a vital artistic endeavor today. We display the works side-by-side in our home and do not consider them separate collections, but see in them all the qualities of Japanese aesthetics and craftsmanship that first drew me to collecting more than 50 years ago.”

Follow the Path: Total Eclipse of the Arc

Jun 29, 2020 - She had worked as a commercial photographer for seven years, but this was her first artistic body of work. Charlesworth’s work, particularly Modern History and Arc of Total Eclipse, prompts us to consider the many ways a single story can be told and the degree to which our understanding of events is conditioned by the images we see

“Pre-Code” Films Explained: 3 Questions

Jul 13, 2019 - They were intended to be seen with an audience and are timed for audience reactions. The films just don’t have the same effect when seen at home. As the Museum’s summer repertory film series Cracking the (Pre) Code heats up, we pose some burning questions to our guest programmer, Bruce Goldstein. 1) What’s your elevator speech to explain the “Pre-Code” period in Hollywood

James Turrell: The Light Inside

All are from the collection of the MFAH, and most have been created for this exhibition. Also on view is The Light Inside, the Museum’s beloved light tunnel, commissioned by Isabel B. and Wallace S. 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.

Introducing Ron Mueck

Feb 22, 2017 - Our attention is immediately arrested by the artwork’s vivid realism and monumental scale. We may also empathize with this sleeping man, and wonder where his dreams take him. Or the old couple, locked in an eternal moment when affection is both offered and taken for granted. In Mueck’s universe, each stage of life is precious, both transient and timeless. The qualities that make it appear to be real—for example the way in which flesh slides downward to meet the support—also make the object unreal, because an actual mask would not respond to gravity in this manner.

Behind-the-Scenes Experience for Benefactor & Leadership Circle Members | Conservation Center Open House