MUSEUM DISTRICT
HIGHLIGHTS
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
Homelands and Histories: Photographs
by Fazal Sheikh HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE
Fabergé: Royal Gifts featuring the Trellis
Egg Surprise
Photographer Fazal Sheikh has traveled the
world, capturing images of the displaced and
marginalized in Afghanistan, Africa, Brazil,
Cuba, India, Israel, Pakistan and Palestine.
This exhibition celebrates a major MFAH
acquisition of 75 photographs spanning the
artist’s career. Sheikh, an award-winning pho-
tographer, was born in New York City in
1965. Homelands and Histories features
images representing each of his key projects,
from the late 1980s to 2013. A portraitist of
uncommon sensitivity, Sheikh seeks to sustain a
relationship with the societies he photographs,
often spending extended periods of time in
each community. Through September 4. The McFerrin Fabergé Collection will be
presented in a new state-of-the-art gallery in
the Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals. This
new gallery is made possible by the generous
underwriting of the Artie and Dorothy McFerrin
Foundation. The first installation in the gallery
is the new special exhibition Fabergé: Royal
Gifts featuring the Trellis Egg Surprise. Visitors
will experience the design artistry and crafts-
manship of the Fabergé workmasters in an
intimate setting. Currently numbering over 600
pieces, the McFerrin Fabergé Collection is
the largest private collection of Fabergé in the
world–a treasure trove of objects reflecting the
artistry of the Fabergé firm.
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MENIL COLLECTION
Between Land and Sea: Artists of the Coenties Slip
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Between Land and Sea: Artists of the Coenties
Slip brings together examples of the early
work of Chryssa, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth
Kelly, Agnes Martin, Lenore Tawney, and
Jack Youngerman. These artists wereamong a
group of intellectuals, writers, filmmakers and
poets who lived and worked during the late
1950s and early 1960s in the old seaport at
the lower tip of Manhattan called the Coenties
Slip. Distinguished by its views of the Brooklyn
Bridge and its position between land and sea,
the slip served as an important inspiration for
the artists, who frequently incorporated aquatic
themes into their early work. Through August 6.