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  Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building

  5601 Main Street
  Houston, TX 77005

  Phone: (713) 639-7300   |   Official Website

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  Museum Parking Garage
  Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.
  
  The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.
  
  You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.
  
  As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.
   

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• • Current Events

    05/13/12- 05/27/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Latin American Art Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Latin American Art Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building May 13-May 27, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Sunday Family Zone & Studio: Latin American Art. Sundays, May 13-27, in both the Beck and Law Buildings. Every Sunday, it's ArtTime/FamilyTime at the MFAH. On May 13, 20, 27, look for signs in the main lobbies to tell you which gallery the Family Zone is located in that day. Spend some time with the friendly family educators—sit on a pillow and read, sketch a work of art, and get involved in an...
    04/22/12- 08/05/12	Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building April 22-August 5, 2012 Beginning April 22 and on view through August 5, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), will host an exclusive loan exhibition from one of Latin America’s most important arts and cultural institutions: el Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires), known as “Malba.” The exhibition features 39 masterworks by some of the region’s best-known artists, including Tarsila do Amaral, Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam and Diego...
    04/15/12- 07/08/12	Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building April 15-July 8, 2012 A selection of works from one of the world’s finest private collections of Dutch drawings will be presented in the Audrey Jones Beck Galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, beginning April 15 and on view through July 8. Selected from the collection assembled by George and Maida Abrams over five decades, the exhibition includes nine works by Rembrandt as well as nearly fifty sheets by his pupils and followers, including examples never before exhibited or published. The exhibition...
    03/18/12- 07/29/12	Egyptomania Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Egyptomania Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building March 18-July 29, 2012 An exhibition opening at the MFAH March 18, Egyptomania, explores the Egyptian Revivals of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries through some 40 objects, including photographs, Georgian garden sphinxes, 19th-century “Aegyptian” furniture and Art Deco perfume bottles with pharaoh-head stoppers. The works will be on view through July 29, 2012. “Westerners have long had an enduring romance with the idea of Egypt and its ancient people, of whom...
    03/11/12- 05/28/12	Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building March 11-May 28, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the exhibition Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst on view March 11, 2012 - May 28, 2012, in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. This unprecedented exhibition of 25 paintings opens at the MFAH, and travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Seventeenth-century Dutch artist Willem van Aelst painted still lifes that are remarkable for their fine finish,...
    03/11/12- 06/10/12	Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage (FotoFest 2012) Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage (FotoFest 2012) Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building March 11-June 10, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the exhibitiion Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage, on view in the Audrey Jones Beck Building March 11 through June 10, 2012. Utopia/Dystopia explores artists’ use of photography to project a political, social, or cultural state of utopia or dystopia. Ranging in date from the late 19th century to the present, these photos, photocollages, photomontages, and moving...
    03/04/12- 06/03/12	Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building March 4-June 3, 2012 Beginning in the 1960s, collectors Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio assembled over five decades an unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary ceramics, focusing on objects that individually and collectively challenge traditional expectations of the medium. In 2007 the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, acquired this landmark collection, giving the museum one of the most important collections of post-World War II ceramics in the world. From March 4 to June 3, 2012, the MFAH will present...
    02/05/12- 05/28/12	Eye on Third Ward 2012: Jack Yates High School Photography Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Eye on Third Ward 2012: Jack Yates High School Photography Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building February 5-May 28, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the exhibition Eye on Third Ward 2012: Jack Yates High School Photography, on view February 5, 2012-May 28, 2012 in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. Eye on Third Ward showcases photographs by students in the Magnet School of Communications at Jack Yates High School. Since 1995, photography classes at Yates have focused on Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood, and select...

• • Upcoming Events

    06/03/12	ART IMPROV at MFAH! Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building ART IMPROV at MFAH! Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 3, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another ART IMPROV at MFAH!!  Art Improv takes place from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, June 3, 2012. At this program, families choose a work of art from anywhere in the museum and make friends with it—using an activity guide to sketch it, write about it, and talk about it together. Then, they visit the studio where there will be an assortment of materials to create a work of art inspired by their new...
    06/03/12- 09/03/12	Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 3-September 3, 2012 On June 3, 2012, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will debut the exhibition Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, whose three-venue national tour was announced by the American Federation of Arts in New York. An exhibition of forty-eight masterpieces, this will be the first tour of this important group of works from the Iveagh Bequest and will provide a unique opportunity to see these superb paintings outside the United Kingdom....
    06/10/12- 06/24/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Dreams of Nature - Investigating a French Surrealist Painting Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Dreams of Nature - Investigating a French Surrealist Painting Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 10-June 24, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Sunday Family Zone & Studio: Dreams of Nature - Investigating a French Surrealist Painting. Sundays, June 10, 17 & 24, in both the Beck and Law Buildings. Every Sunday, it's ArtTime/FamilyTime at the MFAH. On June 10, 17, and 24, look for signs in the main lobbies to tell you which gallery the Family Zone is located in that day. Spend some time with the friendly family educators—sit on a pillow and...
    06/10/12	Klytemnestra - The Original Subversive Female. A New Chamber Opera Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Klytemnestra - The Original Subversive Female. A New Chamber Opera Presented by Divergence Vocal Theater at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 10, 2012 Misha Penton & Divergence Vocal Theater present Klytemnestra - The Original Subversive Female. A New Chamber Opera by Dominick Diorio. Libretto by Misha Penton. She is Seductress. She is Confidante. She is Chaos. The woman who single-handedly annihilated the most powerful war hero of her time and destabilized a society. Klytemnestra, a chamber opera by Dominick DiOrio (Houston Press Best Composer 2011), is a musical setting of...
    06/10/12- 09/23/12	Unrivaled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Unrivaled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 10-September 23, 2012 Collectors Kimiko and John Powers began buying Japanese artwork in the 1960s. Over the next four decades they amassed 300 objects, building one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Japanese art outside of Japan. This summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), will present selections from their holdings in Unrivaled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art, showcasing 85 works from June 10 to September 23. The last...
    06/24/12- 09/09/12	Duncan Phyfe, Master Cabinetmaker in New York Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Duncan Phyfe, Master Cabinetmaker in New York Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 24-September 9, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the exhibition Duncan Phyfe, Master Cabinetmaker in New York on view June 24, 2012-September 9, 2012, in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. Renowned in his lifetime for his elegant designs and superior craftsmanship, Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854) remains to this day America’s most famous cabinetmaker. In the early 1800s, furniture from his New York City workshop was in such demand that he was dubbed the...
    07/01/12	ART IMPROV at MFAH! Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building ART IMPROV at MFAH! Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building July 1, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another ART IMPROV at MFAH!!  Art Improv takes place from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, July 1, 2012. At this program, families choose a work of art from anywhere in the museum and make friends with it—using an activity guide to sketch it, write about it, and talk about it together. Then, they visit the studio where there will be an assortment of materials to create a work of art inspired by their new...
    07/01/12- 09/23/12	The Art of Exaggeration Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building The Art of Exaggeration Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building July 1-September 23, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the exhibition The Art of Exaggeration on view July 1 through September 23, in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. Focusing on the artistic impulse to exaggerate and distort realistic features, characteristics, and situations, this exhibition encompasses images of the grotesque, caricature, and satire. Such artistic devices take on many forms: the tragic and comic, the ridiculous and sublime, the horrible and ludicrous, and...
    07/08/12- 07/29/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: A New Way - Investigating a Work of Modern Art Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: A New Way - Investigating a Work of Modern Art Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building July 8-July 29, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Sunday Family Zone & Studio: A New Way - Investigating a Work of Modern Art. Sundays, July 8-29, in both the Beck and Law Buildings. Every Sunday is ArtTime/FamilyTime at the MFAH. On July 8, 15, 22, and 29, look for signs in the lobbies to tell you which gallery the Family Zone is located in that day. Spend some time with the friendly family educators: sketch a work of art, sit on a pillow and read, join in an...
    08/05/12	ART IMPROV at MFAH! Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building ART IMPROV at MFAH! Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building August 5, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another ART IMPROV at MFAH!!  Art Improv takes place from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, August 5, 2012. At this program, families choose a work of art from anywhere in the museum and make friends with it—using an activity guide to sketch it, write about it, and talk about it together. Then, they visit the studio where there will be an assortment of materials to create a work of art inspired by their new...
    08/12/12- 08/26/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Fine Furniture - Investigating an American Cabinetmaker Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Fine Furniture - Investigating an American Cabinetmaker Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building August 12-August 26, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Sunday Family Zone & Studio: Fine Furniture - Investigating an American Cabinetmaker. Sundays, August 12-26, in both the Beck and Law Buildings. Every Sunday, it's ArtTime/FamilyTime at the MFAH. On August 12, 19, and 26, look for the signs in the main lobbies to tell you which gallery the Family Zone is located in that day. Spend some time with the friendly family educators: Sit on a pillow and read; sketch a work...
    11/11/12- 02/03/13	WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building November 11, 2012-February 3, 2013 On Veterans Day 2012, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will debut an unprecedented exhibition exploring the experience of war through the eyes of photographers. WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath includes nearly 500 objects, including photographs, books, magazines, albums and photographic equipment. The exhibition is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 11, 2012–February 3, 2013. The photographs were made by over...

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• Current Events

  05/13/12- 05/27/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Latin American Art Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Latin American Art Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building May 13-May 27, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Sunday Family Zone & Studio: Latin American Art. Sundays, May 13-27, in both the Beck and Law Buildings. Every Sunday, it's ArtTime/FamilyTime at the MFAH. On May 13, 20, 27, look for signs in the main lobbies to tell you which gallery the Family Zone is located in that day. Spend some time with the friendly family educators—sit on a pillow and read, sketch a work of art, and get involved in an...
  04/22/12- 08/05/12	Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building April 22-August 5, 2012 Beginning April 22 and on view through August 5, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), will host an exclusive loan exhibition from one of Latin America’s most important arts and cultural institutions: el Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires), known as “Malba.” The exhibition features 39 masterworks by some of the region’s best-known artists, including Tarsila do Amaral, Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam and Diego...
  04/15/12- 07/08/12	Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building April 15-July 8, 2012 A selection of works from one of the world’s finest private collections of Dutch drawings will be presented in the Audrey Jones Beck Galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, beginning April 15 and on view through July 8. Selected from the collection assembled by George and Maida Abrams over five decades, the exhibition includes nine works by Rembrandt as well as nearly fifty sheets by his pupils and followers, including examples never before exhibited or published. The exhibition...
  03/18/12- 07/29/12	Egyptomania Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Egyptomania Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building March 18-July 29, 2012 An exhibition opening at the MFAH March 18, Egyptomania, explores the Egyptian Revivals of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries through some 40 objects, including photographs, Georgian garden sphinxes, 19th-century “Aegyptian” furniture and Art Deco perfume bottles with pharaoh-head stoppers. The works will be on view through July 29, 2012. “Westerners have long had an enduring romance with the idea of Egypt and its ancient people, of whom...
  03/11/12- 05/28/12	Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building March 11-May 28, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the exhibition Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst on view March 11, 2012 - May 28, 2012, in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. This unprecedented exhibition of 25 paintings opens at the MFAH, and travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Seventeenth-century Dutch artist Willem van Aelst painted still lifes that are remarkable for their fine finish,...
  03/11/12- 06/10/12	Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage (FotoFest 2012) Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage (FotoFest 2012) Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building March 11-June 10, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the exhibitiion Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage, on view in the Audrey Jones Beck Building March 11 through June 10, 2012. Utopia/Dystopia explores artists’ use of photography to project a political, social, or cultural state of utopia or dystopia. Ranging in date from the late 19th century to the present, these photos, photocollages, photomontages, and moving...
  03/04/12- 06/03/12	Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building March 4-June 3, 2012 Beginning in the 1960s, collectors Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio assembled over five decades an unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary ceramics, focusing on objects that individually and collectively challenge traditional expectations of the medium. In 2007 the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, acquired this landmark collection, giving the museum one of the most important collections of post-World War II ceramics in the world. From March 4 to June 3, 2012, the MFAH will present...
  02/05/12- 05/28/12	Eye on Third Ward 2012: Jack Yates High School Photography Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Eye on Third Ward 2012: Jack Yates High School Photography Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building February 5-May 28, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the exhibition Eye on Third Ward 2012: Jack Yates High School Photography, on view February 5, 2012-May 28, 2012 in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. Eye on Third Ward showcases photographs by students in the Magnet School of Communications at Jack Yates High School. Since 1995, photography classes at Yates have focused on Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood, and select...

• Upcoming Events

  06/03/12	ART IMPROV at MFAH! Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building ART IMPROV at MFAH! Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 3, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another ART IMPROV at MFAH!!  Art Improv takes place from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, June 3, 2012. At this program, families choose a work of art from anywhere in the museum and make friends with it—using an activity guide to sketch it, write about it, and talk about it together. Then, they visit the studio where there will be an assortment of materials to create a work of art inspired by their new...
  06/03/12- 09/03/12	Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 3-September 3, 2012 On June 3, 2012, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will debut the exhibition Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, whose three-venue national tour was announced by the American Federation of Arts in New York. An exhibition of forty-eight masterpieces, this will be the first tour of this important group of works from the Iveagh Bequest and will provide a unique opportunity to see these superb paintings outside the United Kingdom....
  06/10/12- 06/24/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Dreams of Nature - Investigating a French Surrealist Painting Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Dreams of Nature - Investigating a French Surrealist Painting Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 10-June 24, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Sunday Family Zone & Studio: Dreams of Nature - Investigating a French Surrealist Painting. Sundays, June 10, 17 & 24, in both the Beck and Law Buildings. Every Sunday, it's ArtTime/FamilyTime at the MFAH. On June 10, 17, and 24, look for signs in the main lobbies to tell you which gallery the Family Zone is located in that day. Spend some time with the friendly family educators—sit on a pillow and...
  06/10/12	Klytemnestra - The Original Subversive Female. A New Chamber Opera Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Klytemnestra - The Original Subversive Female. A New Chamber Opera Presented by Divergence Vocal Theater at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 10, 2012 Misha Penton & Divergence Vocal Theater present Klytemnestra - The Original Subversive Female. A New Chamber Opera by Dominick Diorio. Libretto by Misha Penton. She is Seductress. She is Confidante. She is Chaos. The woman who single-handedly annihilated the most powerful war hero of her time and destabilized a society. Klytemnestra, a chamber opera by Dominick DiOrio (Houston Press Best Composer 2011), is a musical setting of...
  06/10/12- 09/23/12	Unrivaled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Unrivaled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 10-September 23, 2012 Collectors Kimiko and John Powers began buying Japanese artwork in the 1960s. Over the next four decades they amassed 300 objects, building one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Japanese art outside of Japan. This summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), will present selections from their holdings in Unrivaled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art, showcasing 85 works from June 10 to September 23. The last...
  06/24/12- 09/09/12	Duncan Phyfe, Master Cabinetmaker in New York Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Duncan Phyfe, Master Cabinetmaker in New York Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building June 24-September 9, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the exhibition Duncan Phyfe, Master Cabinetmaker in New York on view June 24, 2012-September 9, 2012, in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. Renowned in his lifetime for his elegant designs and superior craftsmanship, Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854) remains to this day America’s most famous cabinetmaker. In the early 1800s, furniture from his New York City workshop was in such demand that he was dubbed the...
  07/01/12	ART IMPROV at MFAH! Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building ART IMPROV at MFAH! Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building July 1, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another ART IMPROV at MFAH!!  Art Improv takes place from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, July 1, 2012. At this program, families choose a work of art from anywhere in the museum and make friends with it—using an activity guide to sketch it, write about it, and talk about it together. Then, they visit the studio where there will be an assortment of materials to create a work of art inspired by their new...
  07/01/12- 09/23/12	The Art of Exaggeration Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building The Art of Exaggeration Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building July 1-September 23, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the exhibition The Art of Exaggeration on view July 1 through September 23, in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. Focusing on the artistic impulse to exaggerate and distort realistic features, characteristics, and situations, this exhibition encompasses images of the grotesque, caricature, and satire. Such artistic devices take on many forms: the tragic and comic, the ridiculous and sublime, the horrible and ludicrous, and...
  07/08/12- 07/29/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: A New Way - Investigating a Work of Modern Art Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: A New Way - Investigating a Work of Modern Art Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building July 8-July 29, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Sunday Family Zone & Studio: A New Way - Investigating a Work of Modern Art. Sundays, July 8-29, in both the Beck and Law Buildings. Every Sunday is ArtTime/FamilyTime at the MFAH. On July 8, 15, 22, and 29, look for signs in the lobbies to tell you which gallery the Family Zone is located in that day. Spend some time with the friendly family educators: sketch a work of art, sit on a pillow and read, join in an...
  08/05/12	ART IMPROV at MFAH! Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building ART IMPROV at MFAH! Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building August 5, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another ART IMPROV at MFAH!!  Art Improv takes place from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, August 5, 2012. At this program, families choose a work of art from anywhere in the museum and make friends with it—using an activity guide to sketch it, write about it, and talk about it together. Then, they visit the studio where there will be an assortment of materials to create a work of art inspired by their new...
  08/12/12- 08/26/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Fine Furniture - Investigating an American Cabinetmaker Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Fine Furniture - Investigating an American Cabinetmaker Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building August 12-August 26, 2012 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Sunday Family Zone & Studio: Fine Furniture - Investigating an American Cabinetmaker. Sundays, August 12-26, in both the Beck and Law Buildings. Every Sunday, it's ArtTime/FamilyTime at the MFAH. On August 12, 19, and 26, look for the signs in the main lobbies to tell you which gallery the Family Zone is located in that day. Spend some time with the friendly family educators: Sit on a pillow and read; sketch a work...
  11/11/12- 02/03/13	WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building November 11, 2012-February 3, 2013 On Veterans Day 2012, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will debut an unprecedented exhibition exploring the experience of war through the eyes of photographers. WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath includes nearly 500 objects, including photographs, books, magazines, albums and photographic equipment. The exhibition is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 11, 2012–February 3, 2013. The photographs were made by over...

Past
Events

• Past Events

  05/06/12	ART IMPROV at MFAH! Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  05/03/12	In Conversation: Hans-Michael Herzog and Antonio Dias Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  04/11/12	MFAH Poetry Salon: Joseph Campana’s Natural Selections Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  04/08/12- 04/29/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Exquisite Elegance: Exploring Still Life Paintings by Willem van Aelst Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/28/12	MFAH Lecture: The Beauty of the Contemplative Bodhisattva Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/18/12	MFAH Demonstration: The Art of Ikebana Flower Arranging Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/11/12	MFAH/Houston Friends of Chamber Music Gallery Concert: The Old City String Quartet Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/11/12- 03/25/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Color Harmonies: Exploring the Abstract Paintings of Jules Olitski Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/04/12	ART IMPROV at MFAH! Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/12/12- 02/26/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Vessel of Imagination: Exploring Greek Vases Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/12/12	MFAH/Arts Lyrica Gallery Concert: Music from the Dutch Golden Age Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  01/15/12	MFAH Lecture: Modernism and Contemporary Art in Pakistan Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  01/08/12- 01/29/12	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Orpheus Charming the Animals: Exploring a Mythical Masterwork Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  01/01/12	Celebrate the New Year with the MFAH at ART IMPROV! Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/27/11- 12/29/11	Holiday Sketching in the Galleries at MFAH! Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/23/11- 02/20/12	Highlights of the Peter Blum Edition Archive Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/23/11- 03/18/12	Visions of Saints Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/18/11	Navidad Latina: An Afternoon of Latin Carol Carols Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/11/11- 12/18/11	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Sumptuous Carpets: Exploring Textiles from the Islamic Courts Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/10/11- 12/19/11	A Ceremony of Carols: Cantare Christmas at the MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/10/11	MFAH Special Lecture - French Marquetry: Learning by Looking Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/01/11	Encounter Cuban Style: Hermes Mallea - Great Houses of Havana: A Century of Cuban Style Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  11/13/11- 11/27/11	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH: Oui! Oui! Oudry! Exploring a Still Life by Jean-Baptiste Oudry Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  11/13/11- 02/12/12	Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  11/06/11	Art Improv Sunday Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  11/06/11- 03/11/12	New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  11/03/11	Encounter Cuban Style: The Architecture of Havana with Stephen Fox Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  10/30/11	Family Fun! Ancient Encounters: Archaeology Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  10/23/11- 01/16/12	Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  10/09/11- 10/23/11	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  10/02/11	Art Improv Sunday Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/18/11	MFAH Gallery Concerts: 'Life & Luxury' Music for a Paris Salon Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/18/11- 01/02/12	Life & Luxury: The Art of Living in Eighteenth-Century Paris EXTENDED Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/11/11- 09/25/11	Sunday Family Zone & Studio at MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/11/11- 11/27/11	Acid on Metal: The Art of Etching and Aquatint Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/10/11	Art + Studio Family Workshop: Second Nature: Contemporary Landscapes from the MFAH Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/10/11	Art + Studio Family Workshop: Amazing Abstractions Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  08/11/11	MFAH Family Programs Summer Finale Performance Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  08/06/11- 08/07/11	Cantare Houston Walking Concerts at the MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  07/15/11	Hot Night - A Party Celebrating the Fearless Photography of Helmut Newton Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  07/10/11- 09/25/11	Second Nature: Contemporary Landscapes from the MFAH Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  07/03/11- 09/25/11	Helmut Newton: White Women • Sleepless Nights • Big Nudes Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  05/22/11- 08/21/11	Beauty, Humor and Social Justice: Gifts from Joan Morgenstern Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  05/22/11- 08/14/11	Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  05/21/11	MFAH Gallery Concert: Monteverdi & the Venetian Style Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  05/01/11	MFAH Special Lecture - Rivals, Rebels, and Revolutionaries in Jacques-Louis David´s Studio, 1785-1816 Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  04/16/11- 07/04/11	Wistful Beauties: Feminine Portrayals on Paper from the MFAH Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  04/13/11	MFAH Special Lecture - Images of Confucius: Teacher, Statesman, Deity Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  04/10/11- 07/17/11	Picturing the Senses in European Art Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  04/02/11	French Fête Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/20/11- 05/30/11	Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/19/11	MFAH Special Lecture - A Mirror of Life in Istanbul in 1582 Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/14/11- 03/20/11	Special Spring Break Fun at the MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/06/11- 05/30/11	Heinrich Kuhn Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/20/11- 05/22/11	Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/13/11- 05/08/11	Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/12/11	Music in the Galleries: A Circle of Song and Sound Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/08/11- 05/30/11	Eye on Third Ward: Jack Yates High School Photography 2010 Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  01/15/11	MFAH and Divergence Vocal Theater January Gallery Conversation: Voix et Harpe - A Little Frenchiness Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/11/10	MFAH December Gallery Conversation: Unseen Evidence: Beneath the Surface of Rousseau´s The Eiffel Tower Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/11/10- 12/20/10	Starry, Starry Night: Cantare Christmas at the MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  10/24/10- 02/06/11	Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  10/10/10- 01/17/11	Intimate Settings and Public Spaces: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings and Prints Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  10/09/10	MFAH Gallery Conversations: Drawing from Nature Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/22/10	MFAH Lecture: Curating Consciousness: Mysticism and the Modern Museum Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/19/10- 01/09/11	Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/12/10	Oktoberfest at the MFAH: Opening Day Celebration for German Impressionists Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/12/10- 12/05/10	Drawing from Nature: Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, Slevogt Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/12/10- 12/05/10	German Impressionist Landscape Painting, Liebermann — Corinth — Slevogt Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  08/29/10	MFAH Special Lecture: Wondrous Facets of the Himalayan Terrain Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  08/20/10- 08/21/10	Music on a Midsummer's Night: Cantare Sings at the MFAH Galleries Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  08/14/10	MFAH Gallery Conversations: Wild and Woolly Western Tales Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  08/07/10- 01/30/11	EXTENDED Richard Misrach: After Katrina Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  07/24/10- 07/29/10	How to Look at Contemporary Art Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  07/07/10- 07/28/10	Looking Lab at the MFAH (Wednesdays) Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  06/20/10- 09/12/10	Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  06/06/10- 09/12/10	Celebrating Cowboy Culture: The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Program Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  06/06/10- 08/29/10	The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture (Part of An American Season) Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  05/02/10- 05/13/10	The Commonplace Transformed: The Vernacular in Modern Architecture and Contemporary Design (Two Sundays/One Thursday) Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  04/29/10- 05/01/10	How to Visit the Art Museum Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  04/10/10	MFAH Gallery Conversations: A Toast to Art and Wine Through Italy Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/16/10- 03/21/10	Special Spring Break at the MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  03/13/10	MFAH Gallery Conversations: Ruptures and Continuities Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/21/10- 05/09/10	FotoFest 2010 - Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/14/10- 05/09/10	Prendergast in Italy (Part of An American Season) Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/14/10- 05/09/10	Houston's Sargents (Part of An American Season) Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/14/10- 05/23/10	Sargent and the Sea (Part of An American Season) Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/14/10	An American Season Valentine's Day Street Festival at the MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  02/07/10- 05/23/10	Eye on Third Ward: Jack Yates High School Photography 2009 Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/12/09- 12/15/09	Midnight in the Manger - Cantare at MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  12/12/09	MFAH Gallery Conversations: Master Drawings Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  11/01/09	Target Free First Sunday at MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  10/18/09- 01/03/10	Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  10/17/09	Gallery Conversations: Food and the Arts of Ancient Viet Nam Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/27/09- 01/10/10	The Moon: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/13/09- 01/03/10	Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/06/09- 11/29/09	Joaquín Torres-García: Paintings in Houston Collections Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  09/06/09	Target Free First Sunday at MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  08/02/09	Target Free First Sunday at MFAH Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building
  07/23/09- 07/30/09	MFAH Discussions and Workshops: How to Look at Contemporary Art (Thursdays) Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building