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Houston, TX 77005 United States
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles.

There are two major museum buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Audrey Jones Beck Building; two facilities for the Glassell School of Art, the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School; two house museums that exhibit decorative arts, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi; the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden; and 18 acres of public gardens.

A total of 300,000 square feet of space is dedicated to the display of art.

The Hirsch Library is one of the largest art libraries in the Southwest.

More than 2.5 million people visit the MFAH each year.

Community outreach programs touch the lives of more than 670,000 peopleeach year.

The collection contains more than 51,000 artworks, which date from antiquity to the present. The major civilizations of Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa are represented.

Italian Renaissance paintings, French Impressionist works, photographs, American

and European decorative arts, African and Pre-Columbian gold, American art, and European and American paintings and sculpture from post-1945 are particularlystrong holdings.

The museum and the Glassell School of Art present more than thirty changing
exhibitions each year.

The MFAH has published more than forty scholarly books in the last decade.

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ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (TODO SOBRE MI MADRE)

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar (Spain/France, 1999, 101 min., in Spanish with English subtitles, digital) Friday, November 22, 7:00 p.m. Introduced by Rob Arcos, MFAH Audio-Visual Technician. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, All About My Mother tells the story of Manuela (Cecilia Roth) coping with a tragic loss that leads her back to a home she left. […]

$7 – $9
Event Series LA COCINA

LA COCINA

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios (Mexico/USA, 2024, 139 min., in English and Spanish with English subtitles, digital) Saturday, November 23, 7:00 p.m. BROWN Sunday, November 24, 5:00 p.m. BROWN Mexican filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios—whose films Gueros and Museo were previously screened in the Museum’s Latin Wave festival—sets his first American film in the heart of a bustling […]

$7 – $9
Event Series LA COCINA

LA COCINA

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios (Mexico/USA, 2024, 139 min., in English and Spanish with English subtitles, digital) Saturday, November 23, 7:00 p.m. BROWN Sunday, November 24, 5:00 p.m. BROWN Mexican filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios—whose films Gueros and Museo were previously screened in the Museum’s Latin Wave festival—sets his first American film in the heart of a bustling […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Restorations & Revivals: MR. KLEIN

Restorations & Revivals: MR. KLEIN

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Directed by Joseph Losey (France/Italy, 1976, 123 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital Mr. Klein stars Alain Delon (1935–2024) in a role he considered his favorite. Robert Klein is an amoral art dealer leveraging his position and status in 1942 Vichy France. Guided purely by self-interest, he exploits the desperate situation […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Restorations & Revivals: MR. KLEIN

Restorations & Revivals: MR. KLEIN

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Directed by Joseph Losey (France/Italy, 1976, 123 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital Mr. Klein stars Alain Delon (1935–2024) in a role he considered his favorite. Robert Klein is an amoral art dealer leveraging his position and status in 1942 Vichy France. Guided purely by self-interest, he exploits the desperate situation […]

$7 – $9

Event Series Restorations & Revivals: MR. KLEIN

Restorations & Revivals: MR. KLEIN

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Directed by Joseph Losey (France/Italy, 1976, 123 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital Mr. Klein stars Alain Delon (1935–2024) in a role he considered his favorite. Robert Klein is an amoral art dealer leveraging his position and status in 1942 Vichy France. Guided purely by self-interest, he exploits the desperate situation […]

$7 – $9
Event Series ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Directed by Payal Kapadia (France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg/Italy, 2024, 110 minutes, in Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles) Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital An illuminating portrait of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, All We Imagine as Light focuses on three women whose lives overlap in the vast metropolis that is Mumbai. Writer-director Payal Kapadia won the […]

$7 – $9
Event Series ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Directed by Payal Kapadia (France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg/Italy, 2024, 110 minutes, in Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles) Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital An illuminating portrait of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, All We Imagine as Light focuses on three women whose lives overlap in the vast metropolis that is Mumbai. Writer-director Payal Kapadia won the […]

$7 – $9
Event Series ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Directed by Payal Kapadia (France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg/Italy, 2024, 110 minutes, in Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles) Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital An illuminating portrait of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, All We Imagine as Light focuses on three women whose lives overlap in the vast metropolis that is Mumbai. Writer-director Payal Kapadia won the […]

$7 – $9