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 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…
MFA Houston Announces Acquisition of Over 160 Decorative Arts Objects
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), announced the acquisition through gift and purchase of more than 160 works from the exceptional private decorative arts collection of Leatrice and Melvin Eagle, collectors based in Potomac, Marylan…
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Hosts First Major Exhibition of Jan van Huysum
Houston, TX – The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), the first large- scale exhibition devoted to Jan van Huysum’s work, opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Sunday, February 18. Van Huysum is renowned for the tremen…
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Announces 10th Anniversary Program for Latin American Art
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced 2010—11 programming for the 10th anniversary of a landmark initiative: the creation of the Latin American Art Department and Collection at the MFAH and the establishment of its compan…
MFAH Announces Exhibition from the National Gallery of Art
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), announced today a stunning loan exhibition of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The exhibition will present a selection of…
MFAH Announces Exhibition of Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), announced today a stunning loan exhibition of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The exhibition will present a selection of…
MFAH Kinder Foundation Gallery Presents Teach Me to See
HOUSTON, TX.- A child born today will see more images in a lifetime than the number of stars in the universe. But how do children learn the skills that will help them respond to the world around them with “thinking”—rather than “passive”—eyes…
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presents Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro
HOUSTON, TX.-Photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro (b. 1921) is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in the development of postwar Japanese photography. Among his most celebrated bodies of work are the photographs he took during 1953-54 …