The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be open on Friday, Dec. 31 for the New Year holiday. Here’s a look at what’s going on this weekend at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston:
The museum is open on Friday, Dec. 31, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cafe Express serves from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Bayou Bend and Rienzi are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The MFAH is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Jan. 1.
Bayou Bend is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last admission 4 p.m.) on Jan. 1.
The Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main Street – Permanent collection: selections of European art until 1920 and American art until 1945. Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, through Jan. 9; Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, through Feb. 6.
Sketching in the Galleries: Beck Building: Gallery 220. An MFAH teaching artist guides your sketching of European paintings and sculptures on view in this gallery. Hone your hatching and shading skills with the help of a Sketching Challenges activity sheet. Materials are provided for this program, which is open to visitors of all ages. Thursday, Dec. 30, 1-4 p.m.
Creation Station: This Week´s Theme: Looking at Latin American Sculpture. Discover and make art together at this family art-making workshop. This week, create your own hanging wire sculpture, inspired by a work of art by the artist Gego on view in Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art. Recommended Ages: 4+. Sunday, Jan. 2, 1-4 p.m.
Sketching in the Galleries: This Week´s Theme: Looking at Latin American Sculpture. Location: Beck Building: Gallery 111. An MFAH teaching artist guides your sketching of art on view in the Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art exhibition. Challenge yourself with all of the patterns, lines, and shapes that you can find to sketch in the works of art. Sunday, Jan. 2, 1-4 p.m.
Sunday Storytime: Today´s Selection: Ish by Peter Reynolds. Location: Beck Building, Gallery 111. At this 30-minute family gallery experience, an MFAH educator reads the storybook Ish by Peter Reynolds as part of an interactive exploration of a wire sculpture Dibujo sin papel 85/18 (Drawing without Paper 85/18) by Gego. Recommended ages: 2+. Sunday, Jan. 2, 1:30-2 p.m.
The Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street. Permanent collection: the Glassell Collection of African Gold, pre-Columbian art. Form Follows Function: Celebrating 10 Years of the American Institute of Architects Design Collection at the MFAH, through Jan. 30.
Rienzi: The MFAH’s European decorative arts wing, 1406 Kirby Drive, 713-639-7800.
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens: The MFAH’s American decorative arts wing, 1 Westcott Street, 713-639-7750.
The Glassell School of Art: The MFAH’s teaching wing, 5101 Montrose, 713-639-7500.
The Glassell Junior School of Art: 5100 Montrose, 713-639-7700.
Repertory Films
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Auditorium Theater, Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street, 713-639-7515; general admission is $7, matinee admission is $6, and children 5 and under are admitted free. MFAH members, senior adults, and students with ID receive a $1 discount.
Howl (PREMIERE): Thursday, Dec. 30, 7 p.m.; Friday, Dec. 31, 2 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 1, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 2, 5 p.m. (Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman; USA, 2010; Color, 90 Minutes.) For mature audiences.
In 1957 San Francisco, a published collection of Allen Ginsberg´s poems is put on trial for obscenity. One of the poems in the compilation—”Howl”—recounts the events in the author´s life that led to him finding his true voice as an artist.
James Franco stars in this drama featuring dialogue taken from transcripts of the trial and interviews with Ginsberg. Animated sequences help define the poem itself and brilliantly capture the birth of a counterculture. The cast also includes Jeff Daniels, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, David Strathairn, and Treat Williams. “A provocative and moving attempt to address concepts of freedom of expression constructed in a manner designed to reflect both the poem that inspired it and the debate that pursued it.” —thequietus.com
**Preceding each screening of Howl are two 30-minute films featuring Allen Ginsberg from the MFAH Robert Frank film collection: Pull My Daisy (1959) Dec. 28-30 and This Song for Jack (1982) Dec. 31-Jan. 2.
Pull My Daisy
Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie
(USA, 1959, 28 min.)
Dec. 28, 29, 30 at 6:30 p.m.
Pull My Daisy is a classic look at the soul of the beat generation, made with writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and painters Alfred Leslie, Larry Rivers, and Alice Neel. It was written and narrated by Kerouac, based on his unproduced play The Beat Generation. It tells the story of a bishop (Richard Bellamy) and his mother (Alice Neel) who pay a visit to Milo, a railroad worker. At the same time his poet friends, Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso, hang around quizzing the bishop about the meaning of life and its everyday relationship to art and poetry. Pull My Daisy is recognized as one of the most important works of avant-garde cinema.
This Song for Jack
Directed by Robert Frank
(USA, 1983, 30 min.)
Dec. 31 at 1:30 p.m.
Jan. 1 at 1:30 p.m.
Jan. 2 at 4:30 p.m.
This Song for Jack is based on footage Robert Frank shot at “On the Road: The Jack Kerouac Conference,” held at the Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, from July 23 to Aug. 1, 1982. The film is dedicated to Kerouac, Frank´s late friend and collaborator on Pull My Daisy and The Americans. This film is part of the Premieres: Contemporary World Cinema film series.
Facebook Comments