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Opening Day Lecture | "Hew Locke: Passages"

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Sun. Jun. 21, 2026 2 PM-3 PM
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Location Main Campus | Law Building

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Events

Opening Day Lecture | "Hew Locke: Passages"

Date & Time

Sun. Jun. 21, 2026 2 PM-3 PM
This event has passed

Location Main Campus | Law Building

Parking at Beck Garage
Drop off at Beck Building
Brittany Webb, curator of modern and contemporary art, presents a lecture to accompany the opening of Hew Locke: Passages.
 
Hew Locke reinvents the signs and symbols that define public spaces—from statues to coats of arms, royal insignia, official portraits, monuments, and imperial architecture. He uses photography, drawing, sculpture, and assemblages to explore the histories of colonialism across five continents—filtered through the present-day realities of global trade, migration, and diaspora.
 
The most comprehensive survey of Locke’s work to date, Hew Locke: Passages showcases the spectrum of his practice through three decades of his sculptures, collages, and assemblages.

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About the Speaker
Brittany Webb is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Hew Locke: Passages is organized by the Yale Center for British Art in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
 
Major support is provided by:
Jerold B. Katz Foundation
 
Generous support is provided by:
Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter
Winnie Scheuer and Kevin Bonebrake
Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; the Claire & Theodore Morse Foundation; the Junior League of Houston, Inc.; and additional generous donors.
 
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.