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Vishniac

Visit the Houston Jewish Film Festival website for the full schedule and more information. Community partner: Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center Houston  Schneider, consulting curator, Judaica Roman Vishniac was a groundbreaking 20th-century photographer best known for his iconic images of Jewish life in Eastern Europe from 1935 to 1938. Tickets $10 festival admission; $8 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Plan Your Visit This screening takes place in the Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building.

Live Collage Event | Portraits by James Gallagher

Spring Nights at the MFAH

Pricing

• Purchase a live portrait collage: $150 for individuals; $200 for couples; $250 for 3+

• Florescence | “Splendor”

  Visit flohouston.org for updates and additional details. For more information, contact [email protected] or 713.639.7581. Grand Corporate Underwriter: Frost Bank For groups of 10 or more, please contact Group Sales at 713.639.7878 or [email protected] for more information. If you are ready to make your group reservation, complete the group visit request form. The Kinder Building is partially open for this event. The open area includes the lower-level Arrival Hall and street-level atrium. The Law Building is closed.

• MFAH Director Gary Tinterow will be joined by artists Mike and Doug Starn for “Conversations with the Director” on Thursday, June 7

  May 29, 2018 - Where The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium Theater / The Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street  Admission Tickets are $15 for students, $25 for MFAH members, and $35 for the general public. About Mike and Doug Starn Speaker Mike and Doug Starn, brothers and collaborators, first received critical acclaim in the mid-1980s for their conceptual and physical approach to photography. Among their most recent commissions are a monumental glass and metal sculpture on the plaza of the Princeton University Art Museum and a 90-foot-long glass wall façade for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the Final Venue for the Most Comprehensive Survey of Modern Mexican Art in 70 Years

  May 9, 2017 - We are grateful to our colleagues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes for making this exhibition possible, and we are thrilled to offer visitors the opportunity to examine firsthand the This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.   Mellon Fund for Scholarly Publications at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

• Margo Handwerker Appointed Dean of the Glassell School of Art Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  May 22, 2024 - Her dedication to partnership promises to infuse innovation and inclusivity into every facet of our mission.” From 2016 to 2024, Dr. Handwerker will provide leadership for several signature initiatives of the acclaimed Core Residency for artists and writers, including the residency program itself, the visiting artists program for the Glassell School, and annual exhibition programming for the school’s three gallery spaces.

• Rienzi Reels | “8 Women (8 femmes)”

  Visit the Villa Albertine website for more information. Plan Your Visit This screening takes place on the lawn at Rienzi. Limited parking on-site. Please consider rideshare or carpooling. SOLD OUT | Enjoy a captivating night of French cinema at Rienzi, the MFAH house museum for European decorative arts. Bring your own blanket for this free event on the lawn at sunset.

• Book Launch | “Building on Tradition”

  “Texas-based architects Curtis & Windham are known for their work across the Lone Star State. In Building on Tradition, readers get a glimpse into midcentury Houston estates and neo-Georgian mansions.” Plan Your Visit Admission is free. The MFA Shop is located on Level 1 of the Beck Building. Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map   November 13, 2025 Architects William Curtis and Russell Windham visit the MFA Shop to talk about their new book, Building on Tradition: The Work of Curtis & Windham Architects. 

• The Blond Boy from the Casbah (Le petit blond de la casbah)

  Visit the Houston Jewish Film Festival website for the full schedule and more information. Community partner: Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center Houston  Tickets $10 festival admission; $8 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Plan Your Visit This screening takes place in the Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building.

• 6 A.M. (Sa’ate 6 Sobh)

  Community partners: Society of Iranian-American Women for Education and the Iranian Cultural Foundation-Houston. Sara’s anxiety is heightened when an unexpected visit from the police puts her future in jeopardy.  Festival Tickets $10 general admission; $8 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Plan Your Visit This screening takes place in the Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building.