HOUSTON, TX.- Cornelia Long, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced at yesterday’s annual meeting of the board that the MFAH has selected three architecture firms—Morphosis, Snøhetta and Steven Holl Arc…
The MFA Houston Announces Landmark Acquisition of a Dozen Works by James Turrell
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), builds on its longstanding commitment to the work of James Turrell with the recent acquisition of a dozen light-based works by the renowned American artist. Turrell titled the grouping Vertical Vin…
MFA Houston Presents First Major Retrospective Devoted to Photographer Heinrich Kühn
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents over 100 photographs in this first major retrospective in the United States devoted to Austrian photographer and scientist Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944), an important figure in the international Pic…
MFA Houston Presents First Retrospective of Venezuelan Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez
HOUSTON, TX.- For more than five decades Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923) has intensively experimented with the origins and optics of color. His wide-ranging body of work includes unconventional color structures, light environments, street interventions, arc…
MFA Houston to Present Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs in October 2011
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will host Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, an acclaimed exhibition featuring more than 100 artifacts, most of which had never been shown in the U.S. prior to this tour. The exhib…
MFA Houston Announces First Carlos Cruz-Diez Retrospective
HOUSTON, TX.- Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist´s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world. For mor…
MFA Houston Announces First Large-Scale Retrospective of Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez
HOUSTON, TX.- Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist´s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world. For mor…
MFA Houston Announces First Large-Scale Retrospective of Franco-Venezuelan Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez
HOUSTON, TX.- Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist´s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world. For mor…
MFA Houston Commissions Artist Cai Guo-Qiang to Create Gunpowder Drawing
HOUSTON, TX.- Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has long been known internationally for his prolific and multi-disciplinary body of work that fuses the mythic and the everyday. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has commissioned Cai to create his first permanent, si…
MFA Houston Commissions Artist Cai Guo-Qiang to Create Gunpowder Drawing
HOUSTON, TX.- Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has long been known internationally for his prolific and multi-disciplinary body of work that fuses the mythic and the everyday. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has commissioned Cai to create his first permanent, si…