Calendar Week of Friday, August 1, 2025-Thursday, August 7, 2025
Tamara de Lempicka Through July 6, 2025
Capturing the glamour and vitality of 1920s postwar Paris and the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood celebrity, Tamara de Lempicka infused her paintings with a brilliant sense of fashion, design, and the …
01 Aug Fri / 2025
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MFAH Playdate
11:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m.Children 4 and younger, and their adult caregivers, are invited to enjoy a multi-sensory experience in the galleries with songs, stories, games, and activities.
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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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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
7 p.m.—10 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.
03 Aug Sun / 2025
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Ikiru
5 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death.
07 Aug 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.
Tour & Toast | “From India to the World”
6:15 p.m.—7:15 p.m.Join fellow art enthusiasts for a private group tour through From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection.
