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- "The Bauhaus Group" Author Nicholas Fox Weber to Give Talk at MFAH on November 19! 10:14am Nov 11
- Come see THE GLASS HOUSE at MFAH Films! Special one time screening tonight. Director & producer in attendance! 7:49am Nov 2|2 Comments
- Support Texas Film! See HARMONY & ME this Sunday! Producer, lead actress, & Houstonian Kristen Tucker in attendance 1:51pm Oct 28
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- Gallery Conversations: The Art...
The Menil Collection and the Museum...
Today, November 12 at 5:30pm - November Artful Thursday
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Thursday, November 19 at 6:30pm - Author Nicholas Fox Weber to G...
Caroline Wiess Law Building, MFAH
Thursday, November 19 at 7:30pm
Thursday, November 19, 7:30 p.m. Nicholas Fox Weber, head of the Albers Foundation for the past 33 years, spent many decades with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus School in Germany...
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Bahc Yiso's artworks are installed as part of Your Bright Future at the MFAH!
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Bahc Yiso's artworks are installed as part of Your Bright Future at the MFAH!
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston See the unpacking of Your Bright Future artist Do Ho Suh's Home within a Home
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Bahc Yiso's artworks are installed as part of Your Bright Future at the MFAH!
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Crates are everywhere at the MFAH!
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries and MFAH Asian Art Curator Christine Starkman oversee the installation of the artists' projections for Your Bright Future at the MFAH
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Crates are everywhere at the MFAH!
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Crates are everywhere at the MFAH!
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Crates are everywhere at the MFAH!
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Admission is free and open to the public. A reception follows the program. Register to win great giveaways from KUHF 88.7 FM and the MFAH.
Presented by Dr. Marcia Citron, Lovett Distinguished Service Professor of Musicology, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University
The exhibition The Moon: "Houston, Tranquility Base Her...e. The Eagle Has Landed" showcases the fascinating ways the moon has figured in the visual arts over the last 500 years. But the moon has also inspired countless filmmakers and composers—in movies such as Moon Over Miami and Moonraker, and musical works such as Beethoven´s Moonlight Sonata and the 1930s song Moonglow.
The popular film Moonstruck (1987) draws on a beloved opera, Puccini´s La Bohème, in a romantic comedy set in motion by the belief in the magical powers of the moon. In a story that critic Pauline Kael affectionately describes as "honest contrivance" that plays against the real thing, the moon and opera form an irresistible mix that reveals ideal love and the transformative stuff of which dreams are made. Puccini´s music appears on the soundtrack and in a performance at the Metropolitan Opera attended by the lead characters (Cher and Nicolas Cage).
Dr. Marcia Citron explores Moonstruck´s evocative link between opera and the moon through clips from the film and works from the exhibition.
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Presented by Dr. Marcia Citron, Lovett Distinguished Service Professor of Musicology, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University
The exhibition The Moon: "Houston, Tranquility Base Her...e. The Eagle Has Landed" showcases the fascinating ways the moon has figured in the visual arts over the last 500 years. But the moon has also inspired countless filmmakers and composers—in movies such as Moon Over Miami and Moonraker, and musical works such as Beethoven´s Moonlight Sonata and the 1930s song Moonglow.
The popular film Moonstruck (1987) draws on a beloved opera, Puccini´s La Bohème, in a romantic comedy set in motion by the belief in the magical powers of the moon. In a story that critic Pauline Kael affectionately describes as "honest contrivance" that plays against the real thing, the moon and opera form an irresistible mix that reveals ideal love and the transformative stuff of which dreams are made. Puccini´s music appears on the soundtrack and in a performance at the Metropolitan Opera attended by the lead characters (Cher and Nicolas Cage).
Dr. Marcia Citron explores Moonstruck´s evocative link between opera and the moon through clips from the film and works from the exhibition.
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Moonstruck: Film, Opera, and Art
Time:6:30PM Thursday, November 19th
Location:Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Frank Stella (born 1936)
Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III)
1970
Alkyd on canvas
120 x 600 inches
Gift of Alice Pratt Brown
© 2009 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Brand new acquisition as of October 19, 2009, purchased from the artist through the Alice Pratt Brown Acquisitions Fund.
Because of the size... of the canvas (10 x 50 feet), the painting has to be shipped and stored unstretched and rolled. The painting was shipped to us from the artist’s studio in New York. Two of Stella’s art handlers (Primary Art Services) came from New York to work with our preparators to assemble the stretcher and stretch the painting. The video is documentation of this process.
Photography by Will Michels, animation by KDM Media.
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Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III)
1970
Alkyd on canvas
120 x 600 inches
Gift of Alice Pratt Brown
© 2009 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Brand new acquisition as of October 19, 2009, purchased from the artist through the Alice Pratt Brown Acquisitions Fund.
Because of the size... of the canvas (10 x 50 feet), the painting has to be shipped and stored unstretched and rolled. The painting was shipped to us from the artist’s studio in New York. Two of Stella’s art handlers (Primary Art Services) came from New York to work with our preparators to assemble the stretcher and stretch the painting. The video is documentation of this process.
Photography by Will Michels, animation by KDM Media.
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