Press Room
For general media inquiries, please contact the MFAH Press Office at press@mfah.org or 713.800.5362
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May 15, 2024 - MFAH Presents “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” in July 2024
Japan’s Meiji era (1868–1912) was a period of unprecedented cultural and technological transition. This summer, the MFAH presents a fresh look at the art of this transformative era with the landmark exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan.
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March 4, 2024 - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Appoints Daniel Kurt Ackermann Director of Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Daniel Kurt Ackermann has been named director of Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the historic MFAH house museum for American decorative arts. He begins his appointment in July.
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February 6, 2024 - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, installs “Portal” by Do Ho Suh, an “impossible” sculpture made from the negative form of a traditional Korean gate
Do Ho Suh’s Portal is installed alongside two other major works commissioned for the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building: Ólafur Elíasson’s Sometimes an underground movement is an illuminated bridge and Ai Weiwei’s Dragon Reflection.
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January 8, 2024 - “Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway” Opens at the MFAH February 11, 2024
The exhibition Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway explores the art of the Bergen silversmiths from the 16th to early 20th century and examines the evolution of the craft against the backdrop of greater political, social, and economic change in Norway and other parts of the world.
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December 4, 2023 - Simone Leigh’s Monumental Bronze Sculpture “Satellite” Is Installed at the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building of the MFAH
Simone Leigh’s towering, 24-foot-high bronze Satellite (2022) has been installed at the MFAH near the entry plaza of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building for modern and contemporary art. The first edition of Satellite was the centerpiece of Leigh’s project for the American Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale.
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November 2, 2023 - MFAH Establishes a Gallery for Judaica, Opening December 3, 2023
The new space allows for a permanent presence at the Museum for works of art made for Jewish communities around the world to fulfill the practice of their faith. More than two dozen objects will be displayed in the inaugural installation, primarily from a group of recent acquisitions that have launched this new collecting initiative.
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November 2, 2023 - “Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism” Opens at the MFAH February 25, 2024
Over nine intense weeks in the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism will present, for the first time in the United States, the legacy of that legendary summer through paintings, drawings, and watercolors.
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November 2, 2023 - MFAH Presents “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage” in February 2024
The first major museum exhibition devoted to this rich yet understudied subject, Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage features some 80 collage and collage-informed works. The presentation explores the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States.
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September 7, 2023 - “Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence” Tours to the MFAH in November
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will present Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence, the artist’s new, monumental body of work created against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and the global rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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August 9, 2023 - On View This Fall at the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building: Simone Leigh’s Iconic “Satellite,” Newly Completed for the MFAH; New Modern and Contemporary Exhibitions
Simone Leigh’s towering, 24-foot-high Satellite (2022) will be installed in front of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building for modern and contemporary art in October. In addition, a suite of three thematic exhibitions drawn from the MFAH collections of modern and contemporary art will be on view beginning September 2.
