Press Room
For general media inquiries, please contact the MFAH Press Office at press@mfah.org or 713.800.5362
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June 12, 2025 - MFAH Appoints Brittany Webb as a Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
This summer, Brittany Webb will join the MFAH as a curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. She has curated an extensive roster of exhibitions working with contemporary artists and the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
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June 11, 2025 - In November, Major Exhibition Brings Unprecedented Loans of Roman Antiquities to the U.S. from the Renowned Collections of Italian Museums
Art and Life in Imperial Rome: Trajan and His Times is the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to the extraordinary reign of Trajan, who ruled the Roman Empire at its height. The exhibition debuts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in November 2025 and will be presented at the St. Louis Art Museum in March 2026.
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June 4, 2025 - “Frida: The Making of an Icon” Debuts in January 2026 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Tracing Frida Kahlo’s posthumous transformation from a relatively unknown painter to global brand, this exhibition features more than 30 paintings by Frida Kahlo that capture the arc of the painter’s artistic legacy within the context of 120 works by five successive generations of artists.
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May 21, 2025 - “Anicka Yi: Karmic Debt” Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in June, the Latest in the Museum’s Long-Running Summer Immersive Series
Anicka Yi approaches technology not as an instrument of control, but as a creative partner. This exhibition brings to Houston two complementary installations that dissolve boundaries between biology and technology, proposing new ways of thinking about perception, sentience, and survival across human and nonhuman realms.
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May 21, 2025 - The MFAH Has Acquired 187 Superb Indian Textiles from the Renowned Collection of Banoo and Jeevak Parpia
The exhibition From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection celebrates the Museum’s major acquisition of superb Indian textiles from one of the most significant holdings of Indian textiles in private hands outside of India.
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May 14, 2025 - First Major U.S. Retrospective of Art Deco Icon Tamara de Lempicka Extended Until July 6 at the MFAH
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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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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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 - 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.
