MFAH HOUSTON
September 2023
In September 2023, the MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, United States, made the acquisition of the Wild Fibers Tapestry for its permanent Collection, a new monumental hanging tapestry piece. Visitors will be able to admire on 360º the wild interweaving of rattan like a drape of textile. This single art piece requires 80 000 nails to hold the vines together.
Proposition for acquisition by Elizabeth Essner, Windgate Foundation Associate Curator of Craft.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is among the 10 largest art museums in the United States, with an encyclopedic collection of more than 70,000 works of art, created throughout the world, from antiquity to the present.
Established in 1900, the MFAH is the largest cultural institution in the region. The majority of the museum’s presentations take place on its main campus, which is located in the heart of Houston’s Museum District and comprises the Audrey Jones Beck Building, the Caroline Wiess Law Building, the Glassell School of Art and the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden. The Beck and Law buildings are connected underground by the Wilson Tunnel, which features James Turrell’s iconic installation The Light Inside (1999). Additional resources include a repertory cinema, two significant libraries, public archives and a state-of-the-art conservation and storage facility. Nearby, two remarkable house museums, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi, present collections of American and European decorative arts. The encyclopedic collections of the MFAH are especially strong in pre-Columbian and African gold; Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture; 19th- and 20th-century art; photography; and Latin American art. 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.
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In September 2023, the MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, United States, made the acquisition of the Wild Fibers Tapestry for its permanent Collection, a new monumental hanging tapestry piece. Visitors will be able to admire on 360º the wild interweaving of rattan like a drape of textile. This single art piece requires 80 000 nails to hold the vines together.
Proposition for acquisition by Elizabeth Essner, Windgate Foundation Associate Curator of Craft.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is among the 10 largest art museums in the United States, with an encyclopedic collection of more than 70,000 works of art, created throughout the world, from antiquity to the present.
Established in 1900, the MFAH is the largest cultural institution in the region. The majority of the museum’s presentations take place on its main campus, which is located in the heart of Houston’s Museum District and comprises the Audrey Jones Beck Building, the Caroline Wiess Law Building, the Glassell School of Art and the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden. The Beck and Law buildings are connected underground by the Wilson Tunnel, which features James Turrell’s iconic installation The Light Inside (1999). Additional resources include a repertory cinema, two significant libraries, public archives and a state-of-the-art conservation and storage facility. Nearby, two remarkable house museums, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi, present collections of American and European decorative arts. The encyclopedic collections of the MFAH are especially strong in pre-Columbian and African gold; Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture; 19th- and 20th-century art; photography; and Latin American art. 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.