Get Psyched UP in "Seeing Is Not Believing
Style Magazine Newswire | 9/15/2022, 8:45 a.m.
Final Days | Closing this Week
Leandro Erlich: Seeing Is Not Believing
Final Day on View: Tomorrow, Thursday, September 15
Beauty and Ritual: Judaica from the Jewish Museum, New York
Final Day on View: Sunday, September 18
Get psyched UP in the immersive environments of Leandro Erlich, whose psychological subversion in Seeing Is Not Believing challenges your perception of reality. In Beauty and Ritual, explore the cultural significance of art from Jewish communities throughout the world.
From Highsmith to Hitchcock and Beyond
Movie Watchlist Alert
Lynn Wyatt Theater
Loving Highsmith | September 16, 17 & 18
Strangers on a Train | September 17 & 18
Light from the East | September 22
Looking for a unique getaway? Take a trip with the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train, adapted from the novel by Texas-born author Patricia Highsmith, and see her profiled in Loving Highsmith. Then head to Ukraine when filmmaker Amy Grappell visits to present Light from the East.
Bring the Entire Family for Fun at Bayou Bend
“Our Classical Past”
FREE | Sunday, September 18, 1 p.m.
Visit Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens for family-friendly fun that explores how the ancient world influenced early American art and design. Highlights include music, dance, puppetry, and visits to the first-floor rooms of the house.
Mark Your Calendar
Lecture | “Painting on Stone Surfaces in 16th-Century Europe: The How and the Why”
Sunday, September 25, 2 p.m.
Discover the creative and exciting ways artists have incorporated stone into painted compositions. Judith Mann, curator at the Saint Louis Art Museum, shares highlights from their exhibition Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred and from the Rienzi Collection.
Leandro Erlich: Seeing Is Not Believing
June 29–September 15, 2022
Two room-size, immersive environments highlight this exhibition spanning the career of Conceptual artist Leandro Erlich, whose psychological subversion of everyday spaces challenges your perception of reality. Tickets include general admission.
About the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Established in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is among the 10 largest art museums in the United States, with an encyclopedic collection of nearly 70,000 works dating from antiquity to the present. The Museum’s Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim main campus comprises the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, designed by Steven Holl Architects and opened in 2020; the Audrey Jones Beck Building, designed by Rafael Moneo and opened in 2000; the Caroline Wiess Law Building, originally designed by William Ward Watkin, with extensions by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe completed in 1958 and 1974; the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, designed by Isamu Noguchi and opened in 1986; the Glassell School of Art, designed by Steven Holl Architects and opened in 2018; and The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza, designed by Deborah Nevins & Associates and opened in 2018. Additional spaces include a repertory cinema, two libraries, public archives, and facilities for conservation and storage. Nearby, two house museums—Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, and Rienzi—present American and European decorative arts. The MFAH is also home to the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), a leading research institute for 20th-century Latin American and Latino art. mfah.org
