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Juanita

On a trip to Santo Domingo to visit Juanita’s family for Christmas, they discover that love can be tricky. *Rachel Afi Quinn selected Juanita for its resonance with her book Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo. Signed copies are available for purchase at this event.

Emilia Pérez

Tickets $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Plan Your Visit This screening takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building. Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris, The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, and the Vaughn Foundation. It is shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards on March 2. From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations.

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

"– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK) Tickets $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Plan Your Visit This screening takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the lower level of the Law Building Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris, The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, and the Vaughn Foundation. A must for Hitch fans! "As ever, there is real evangelism in Cousins’ work and in ‘My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock’ there is so much to learn and enjoy. You come away from it with your senses fine-tuned.

Children’s Texas Art and Makers Festival at Bayou Bend

Plan Your Visit Admission is free. Last entry at 4:30 p.m. January 26, 2025Bayou Bend presents an afternoon celebrating art—created by and for children—that forges connections between Texas history and American heritage. As the former estate of the Hogg family, one of the great Texan art-collecting families, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens serves as a fitting focal point for the styles and periods of art represented on this day.

Family Art-Making Studio

Admission is free for MFAH members and ages 12 & younger. Get advance Museum tickets. Plan Your Visit This event starts in the Farish Education Room on the Lower Level of the Beck Building. --

This event is sold out for June 28. Tickets are still available for July 26 and August 23.

Lecture | Artist Talk with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

This lecture is part of the Armando Garza-Sada Sr. and Sylvia Sada Endowment for the Arts Lecture Series. Plan Your Visit Included with Museum admission The program takes place in Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston welcomes artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer for a lecture discussing his career trajectory, influences on his work, and current projects like the installation at Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern.    His large-scale participatory installations have been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City, the UN World Summit in Lyon, and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Painting on Stone Surfaces in 16th-Century Europe: The How and the Why

Plan Your Visit This program is included with general admission. Seating is first come, first served in Lynn Wyatt Theater, located in the Kinder Building on the MFAH main campus. Originally appreciated for its durability, stone became prized for its varied pictorial qualities, including the dark surface of slate that enhances night scenes and the alabaster whorls that emulate effects of heavenly apparitions Explore More The Nativity, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, is from the collection at Rienzi, the MFAH house museum for European decorative arts.

Beloved Tropic (Querido Trópico)

As they navigate the challenges of caregiving and the need for human connection, they learn to care for one another amid their personal struggles. Tickets $10 festival admission; $8 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Plan Your Visit This screening takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building. Ana María (Jenny Navarrete, The Other Son), a Colombian immigrant working as a home caregiver while harboring a secret, crosses paths with Mercedes (played by acclaimed Chilean actress Paulina García, known for her role in Gloria

Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong denglong gaogao gua)

Tickets | Available Soon $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Plan Your Visit This screening takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building. She soon discovers that behind the palatial life of luxury in the master’s house, she and her fellow concubines are pitted against each other in a struggle for his affections. Generous funding is provided by the Foundation for Independent Media Arts; Lois Chiles; Franci Neely; Joanie Patrick and Stephen Bettencourt; Ellen A. Yarrell; and ILEX Foundation.

Core Program Lecture | Alex Kitnick

Plan Your Visit Core Program lectures are open to the public. Admission is free. This event takes place in Favrot Auditorium at the Glassell School of Art. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Call 713.639.7500 About the Core Residency ProgramEstablished in 1982, the Glassell School of Art’s Core Residency Program offers postgraduate residencies for art critics and visual artists. Endowments for the Core Program have been provided by Leslie and Brad Bucher; gifts in memory of Laura Lee Blanton; the estate of Margaret Gillingham; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Eliza Lovett Randall; Herbert C.