Calendar Week of Friday, July 18, 2025-Thursday, July 24, 2025
Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography Through August 3, 2025
Showcasing 100 examples of contemporary Cuban photography, this exhibition traces the evolution of the medium’s role in Cuba over nearly five decades.
29 Jul Tue / 2025
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Early College Program | Virtual Info Session
6 p.m.—7 p.m.The Glassell School of Art invites you to an information session about the new Emerging Artists: Early College Program.
31 Jul Thu / 2025
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Summer Break at the MFAH
11 a.m.—2 p.m.When school’s out, families are invited to enjoy gallery activities with teaching artists and experiment with a variety of materials to create art.
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Phulkari Head Cover (Bagh) (detail), Punjab, Pakistan, 19th century, cotton embroidered with floss silk threads, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Banoo and Jeevak Parpia Collection, gift of Banoo and Jeevak Parpia.
Drop-in Tour | “From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.This tour highlights the exhibition From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection, which showcases the Museum’s recent acquisition of Indian textiles from collectors Banoo and Jeevak Parpia.
01 Aug Fri / 2025
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Persian, “Layla and Majnun” Tile Panel, 17th century, stonepaste; polychrome glaze within black wax resist outlines, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase funded by the 2017 Art of the Islamic Worlds Gala.
Tour | Artwork of the Month “Layla and Majnun” Tile Panel
1:30 p.m.—2 p.m.On this guided tour, learn about “Layla and Majnun” Tile Panel.
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Happy Hour Friday
5 p.m.—8 p.m.Happy Hour Friday is the place to be! Meet your friends at the MFAH for the best night of the week.
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Tango Night
5 p.m.—8:30 p.m.Enjoy drinks and dancing on Tango Night at Happy Hour Friday.
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Phillippe Diederich | Eva Skrande | Icess Fernandez
Writers Remix Series | “Navigating the Waves”
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Experience Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography through the written word.
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Stray Dog (Noru Inu)
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Stray Dog goes beyond a crime thriller, probing the squalid world of postwar Japan, and the nature of the criminal mind.
02 Aug Sat / 2025
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Galleries for Art of the Indigenous Americas
Saturday Members Tour | Art of the Indigenous Americas
1 p.m.—2 p.m.MFAH members are invited to enjoy an inside look at the newly reinstalled galleries for Art of the Indigenous Americas.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5 p.m.—8 p.m.In translating Milan Kundera’s supposedly “unfilmable” novel to the big screen, Philip Kaufman achieves a delicate, erotic balance by focusing on three central characters.
