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Plan Your Visit
Sep 12, 2012 - The online archive is available worldwide, free of charge at www.icaadocs.mfah.org and is intended as a catalyst for the future of a field that has been notoriously lacking in accessible resources.
May 19, 2022 - It is as relevant to our current moment as it was to Life’s readers in 1967. I am grateful to the Gordon Parks Foundation for the opportunity to present these never-before-seen works and to celebrate Parks’s legacy.” “Extending the Museum’s commitment to photography from the civil-rights era, and following our presentation of the exhibition Soul of a Nation in 2020, which included Gordon Parks’s famous 1942 American Gothic, I am very pleased
Dec 17, 2019 - “We are grateful to our partners at the Society for lending us this spectacular show.” “The Museum is delighted to showcase these important works from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library to our audiences in Houston,” said Gary Tinterow, director, the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Mar 10, 2016 - One of our initial inspirations was the gorgeous, flowing work of artist Bill Viola in The Greeting, a large-screen video installation.
Dec 23, 2025 - “While the primary objective for the purchase of this property is to secure land for any potential future expansion of the museum, our priority now is to create a welcoming community lawn.
Designers visit to present sparkling jewelry, chic accessories, and more. Drop in—it’s always free to visit the MFA Shop! Questions? Call 713.639.7360.
Jul 7, 2026 - “We are thrilled that our colleagues in Boston have consented to share with us their definitive collection of works by Winslow Homer,” commented Gary Tinterow, director and Margaret Alkek Williams chair of the MFAH. Because Homer's light-sensitive works on paper are normally kept in dark storage, this exhibition provides a once-in-a generation opportunity to see Homer's vision of our country, made visible only in Houston on the occasion of
Jan 7, 2021 - “Lighting design has both transformed our daily life and influenced major design movements over the past 100 years. “While the function and innovation is evident, lighting’s ability to delight transforms our experience,” said Sarah Schleuning, exhibition co-curator and the Margot B.
Jan 19, 2022 - As museum curators, we are always on the lookout for the next acquisition, and pictures from Mortensen’s planned Pictorial History of Witchcraft and Demonology are definitely on our desiderata list.
