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510 Preston Street (446 Northwest Mall),
Houston, TX 77002 United States
713-639-7300
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles.

There are two major museum buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Audrey Jones Beck Building; two facilities for the Glassell School of Art, the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School; two house museums that exhibit decorative arts, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi; the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden; and 18 acres of public gardens.

A total of 300,000 square feet of space is dedicated to the display of art.

The Hirsch Library is one of the largest art libraries in the Southwest.

More than 2.5 million people visit the MFAH each year.

Community outreach programs touch the lives of more than 670,000 peopleeach year.

The collection contains more than 51,000 artworks, which date from antiquity to the present. The major civilizations of Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa are represented.

Italian Renaissance paintings, French Impressionist works, photographs, American

and European decorative arts, African and Pre-Columbian gold, American art, and European and American paintings and sculpture from post-1945 are particularlystrong holdings.

The museum and the Glassell School of Art present more than thirty changing
exhibitions each year.

The MFAH has published more than forty scholarly books in the last decade.

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Event Series Food, Inc. 2: Back for Seconds

Food, Inc. 2: Back for Seconds

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

In the sequel to the Oscar-nominated 2008 documentary Food, Inc., the filmmakers reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at the efficient yet vulnerable food system. Profit-focused corporations are proliferating a chemically formulated international health crisis by focusing on growing the market […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is the first major museum exhibition devoted to exploring the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States through collage. Works by multiple generations of living artists examine concepts such as cultural hybridity, gender fluidity, historical memory, and notions of beauty and power. By assembling […]

Event Series Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. The two painters experimented with daring directions in energetic bursts of color, form, and structure that eventually led to a boldly inventive artistic language known as Fauvism (from the French fauve, or […]

Event Series Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence showcases Kehinde Wiley’s new, monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work, with detailed portrayals of Black and Brown individuals, the artist confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice. In this body of work, Wiley uses the visual […]

Event Series Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. The two painters experimented with daring directions in energetic bursts of color, form, and structure that eventually led to a boldly inventive artistic language known as Fauvism (from the French fauve, or […]

Event Series Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is the first major museum exhibition devoted to exploring the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States through collage. Works by multiple generations of living artists examine concepts such as cultural hybridity, gender fluidity, historical memory, and notions of beauty and power. By assembling […]

Event Series Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence showcases Kehinde Wiley’s new, monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work, with detailed portrayals of Black and Brown individuals, the artist confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice. In this body of work, Wiley uses the visual […]

Event Series Food, Inc. 2: Back for Seconds

Food, Inc. 2: Back for Seconds

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

In the sequel to the Oscar-nominated 2008 documentary Food, Inc., the filmmakers reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at the efficient yet vulnerable food system. Profit-focused corporations are proliferating a chemically formulated international health crisis by focusing on growing the market […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. The two painters experimented with daring directions in energetic bursts of color, form, and structure that eventually led to a boldly inventive artistic language known as Fauvism (from the French fauve, or […]

Event Series Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence showcases Kehinde Wiley’s new, monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work, with detailed portrayals of Black and Brown individuals, the artist confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice. In this body of work, Wiley uses the visual […]

Event Series Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. The two painters experimented with daring directions in energetic bursts of color, form, and structure that eventually led to a boldly inventive artistic language known as Fauvism (from the French fauve, or […]

Event Series Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence showcases Kehinde Wiley’s new, monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work, with detailed portrayals of Black and Brown individuals, the artist confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice. In this body of work, Wiley uses the visual […]