Press Room
For general media inquiries, please contact the MFAH Press Office at [email protected] or 713.800.5362
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March 27, 2025 - “Floating World” Immersive Environments at the MFAH Will Fuse the Forces of Technology and Nature
This project by the acclaimed Tokyo- and London-based artist duo A.A.Murakami melds science, art, and nature to create unique environments. Four sensory landscapes will unfold across the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, immersing visitors in environments of light, fog, plasma, and sound.
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March 24, 2025 - “Frida: The Making of an Icon” Debuts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in January 2026
The exhibition will tell the extraordinary story of how Frida Kahlo, little recognized during her own lifetime, became one of the world’s most influential artists decades after her death. More than 30 works by Kahlo will be on view along with over 120 by artists from the 1970s onward driven by her artistic legacy and personal history.
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January 15, 2025 - MFAH Announces Changes to Its Glassell School’s Core Residency Program and Application
The Glassell School of Art has announced changes to the prestigious Core Residency Program for visual artists and critics. Formerly a nine-month residency renewable for a second year, the Core Residency Program will now accept applications every other year for a two-year program.
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December 18, 2024 - First Major US Retrospective of Art Deco Icon Tamara de Lempicka Arrives at the MFAH in March 2025
Tamara de Lempicka—the first major museum survey devoted to the artist in the United States—explores Lempicka’s distinctive style and unconventional life through over 90 paintings and drawings, which range from her first post-Cubist compositions and her coming of age in 1920s Paris, to her most famous nudes and portraits of the 1930s, to the melancholic still lifes and interiors of the 1940s.
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December 18, 2024 - MFAH to Host National Touring Retrospective of Groundbreaking 20th-Century Artist Toshiko Takaezu, Beginning March 2, 2025
Featuring some 100 objects from public and private collections across the country, Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within presents a comprehensive portrait of Takaezu’s life and work. This retrospective charts the development of Takaezu’s hybrid practice over seven decades.
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December 18, 2024 - In March 2025 MFAH Presents “Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries”
Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries presents seven lavish tapestries that depict the battle of Pavia, commemorating Holy Roman Emperor Charles V’s decisive victory over French King Francis I. The tapestries are monumental in scale—each measuring about 28 feet wide and 14 feet high—drawing viewers into the world of Renaissance history, military technology, and fashion.
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December 12, 2024 - The MFAH Presents “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond,” in January 2025
Featuring over 70 works of art in a variety of media, Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond explores how the genre of landscape evolved during an era of immense transformation in Britain.
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November 19, 2024 - The MFAH Brings a Unique Notre-Dame Cathedral Immersive Experience to Houston, Beginning November 23
To celebrate next month’s public reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, newly restored five years after its devastating fire, this exhibition brings visitors into a virtual, three-dimensional model of the iconic cathedral.
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November 7, 2024 - Glassell Introduces New Program for Teens—Emerging Artists: Early College Program
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announces the launch and registration dates for the Glassell School of Art Emerging Artists: Early College Program for high school students with a deep passion for art and a desire to pursue it at the college level.
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August 22, 2024 - MFAH Presents “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” in October, the First Community-Curated Native American Exhibition at the Museum
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, opening October 20, 2024, will foreground Pueblo voices and aesthetics and offer a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience.
