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This July 4th, visit Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens for a festive afternoon honoring 250 years since the signing of t...
06/24/2026

This July 4th, visit Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens for a festive afternoon honoring 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Enjoy live performances, storytelling, crafts, and classic Americana vibes. 🇺🇸

Explore the first floor of the house, featuring "George Washington: America’s Enduring Icon," chat with knowledgeable docents, and step into history with costumed interpreters. Don’t miss performances by Brave Little Company, and be sure to sign the giant Declaration of Independence before you go! ✍🏽

🔗 Learn more at mfah.org/events/fourth-july-bayou-bend

Step into the world of modern masters 🎨✨Tickets at mfah.org/masterpiece🖼️ :Paul Klee, Swiss, 1879–1940Architecture of th...
06/23/2026

Step into the world of modern masters 🎨✨

Tickets at mfah.org/masterpiece

🖼️ :
Paul Klee, Swiss, 1879–1940
Architecture of the Plain
1923
"Watercolor and graphite on paper on paperboard"
Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie,
Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany

Explore the vibrant sounds of Andalusian jazz with Arte Puro, featuring Ernesto Vega on winds. 🎶✨From García Lorca and P...
06/22/2026

Explore the vibrant sounds of Andalusian jazz with Arte Puro, featuring Ernesto Vega on winds. 🎶✨

From García Lorca and Paco de Lucía to today’s flamenco-jazz innovators like Jorge Pardo and Sergio de Lope, this performance bridges tradition and contemporary flair.

Part of Music in the Galleries, our monthly series spotlighting Houston’s incredible music scene in immersive museum spaces.

🍷 Make it a night and swing by to grab a drink at Happy Hour, then stay for a guided gallery tour.
🔗 Learn more at https://bit.ly/4vZ1tZZ

06/21/2026

"Hew Locke: Passages” is now open. Take a look at the MFAH preparations team installing a key work in the exhibition: "The Survivor."

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 present-day realities of global trade, migration, and diaspora.

On view today through September 13.
🔗 Tickets at mfah.org/art/exhibitions/hew-locke-passages?promo=32959

"Miss Juneteenth, Sycamore Park, F. W. Texas" by Peter Helms Feresten. Presented in honor of the Juneteenth holiday, thi...
06/19/2026

"Miss Juneteenth, Sycamore Park, F. W. Texas" by Peter Helms Feresten. Presented in honor of the Juneteenth holiday, this striking photograph captures a moment of pride, tradition, and joy.

Here’s to a meaningful and joyful celebration of Juneteenth. ❤️

While this photograph is not currently on view, you can make an appointment to see it at the Anne Wilkes Tucker Study Center.
🔗 Learn more about this photograph at https://bit.ly/4eLXA4B

📷 :
Peter Helms Feresten (American, 1945–2007)
"Miss Juneteenth, Sycamore Park, F. W. Texas"
1984
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Gelatin silver print
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the Texas Historical Foundation with support from a major grant from the DuPont Company and Conoco, its energy subsidiary, and assistance from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts

06/17/2026

Experience the MFAH through the power of the written word as local writers bring works in "Material Presence" to life with original performances in the galleries. ✨

The boundary-pushing works on view feature artists who transform plaster, plastic, canvas, stone, and even LEGO® bricks into powerful artistic statements. Highlights include Ai Weiwei’s "Water Lilies #4," Sam Gilliam’s "Double Merge (Carousel I and Carousel II)," Los Carpinteros’s "Podgaric Toy," and Rachel Whiteread’s monumental "Untitled (Fire Escape)."

📆 Writers Remix | Thursday, June 25 | 6:30 pm
🤝🏽 Presented in collaboration with Public Poetry (Houston, TX)
Video by Francisco Javier Flores and Abdurrahman Danquah

Learn more at mfah.org/events/writers-remix-material-presence

Celebrate Father’s Day at Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens 🌿🎶Bring Dad out to enjoy a day filled with nature, art, and ...
06/17/2026

Celebrate Father’s Day at Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens 🌿🎶

Bring Dad out to enjoy a day filled with nature, art, and live music. No reservations needed!

✨ Highlights include:
• Free admission for fathers
• Light refreshments
• Live music by a musical duo led by Gary Weldon
• A self-guided house tour exploring the role of parents in early America

Make it a relaxing and memorable day with the whole family 💙
📆 Sunday, June 21 | 1 pm to 5 pm

Brittany Webb, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, leads a powerful opening lecture for "Hew Locke: Passages."Through ...
06/14/2026

Brittany Webb, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, leads a powerful opening lecture for "Hew Locke: Passages."

Through sculpture, collage, and assemblage, Hew Locke reimagines the symbols that shape public space, statues, monuments, and royal insignia, unpacking layered histories of colonialism across five continents and connecting them to today’s realities of migration, trade, and diaspora.

The most comprehensive survey of his work to date, "Passages" spans three decades of bold, thought-provoking practice. 🌍✨

🔗 Learn more at https://www.mfah.org/events/opening-day-lecture-hew-locke-passages

06/13/2026

Art speaks every language. ✨

Welcome, all, to Houston. 🌎❤️

Beach vibes + mountain views… in Houston?Yep. It’s all right here. 😉 Welcome, visitors. Enjoy the best spot in the city....
06/11/2026

Beach vibes + mountain views… in Houston?
Yep. It’s all right here. 😉

Welcome, visitors. Enjoy the best spot in the city.
🎟️ mfah.org/tickets

1. Johan Barthold Jongkind
Dutch
"Dutch Landscape"
1862
Netherlands
John A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck

2. Joseph Wright of Derby
English
"Italian Landscape with Mountains and a River"
England
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston

3. Unknown Egyptian
Egyptian
"Coffin of Pedi-Osiris"
Museum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund

4. Canaletto(Italian
Italian
"The Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge, Venice"
Venice, Italy
The Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection, gift of Sarah Campbell Blaffer

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Houston, TX
77005

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Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 9pm
Friday 11am - 9pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 12:30pm - 6pm

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