Press Room
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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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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.
