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FEATURED 13. THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON WWW.MFAH.ORG
HOUGHTON HALL: PORTRAIT OF AN ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE OPENS JUNE 22. THE EXHIBITION MARKS THE FIRST TIME THE RENOWNED COLLECTION OF THE MARQUESSES OF CHOLMONDELEY, HOUSED AT HOUGHTON HALL, THE FAMILY ESTATE IN NORFOLK, WILL TRAVEL OUTSIDE OF ENGLAND. BUILT IN THE EARLY 1700S BY SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, ENGLAND’S FIRST PRIME MINISTER, THE HOME WAS RENOWNED AS ONE OF THE FINEST PALLADIAN HOUSES AND ONE OF THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTIONS IN BRITAIN. HOUGHTON BECAME NOTORIOUS WHEN HIS GRANDSON SOLD SIR ROBERT’S COLLECTION OF OLD MASTER PAINTINGS TO CATHERINE THE GREAT IN 1779.
11. HOUSTON ZOO www.houstonzoo.org
Extreme Bugs opens Memorial Day weekend with 13 giant, animatronic bugs taking over the zoo. From ants to ladybugs and grasshoppers to a dragonfly – walk the winding trail of this unique backyard amazed at the size and detail of the creatures magnified to 60 times their size. Sign up for Camp Zoofari’s 10 weeks of educational fun June 2–August 8.
16. CZECH CENTER MUSEUM www.czechcenter.org
This museum unifes the Czech/Slovak-American communities providing a central focus for all things Czechrelated, serving as a clearinghouse for information.
17. JOHN C. FREEMAN WEATHER MUSEUM www.weathermuseum.org Founded in 1987 by Jill F. Hasling and her father, Dr. John C. Freeman, both Certified Consulting Meteorologists and Fellows of the American Meteorological Society. The nonprofit corporation was founded to respond to a need to educate the public about weather and weather safety. 18. ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER www.asiasociety.org Transcendent Deities of India: The Everyday Occurrence of the Divine continues and features modern and contemporary representations of Hindu gods and goddesses which preserve the tangible connection between worshippers and the objects of their reverence. Works include photographs by artist Manjari Sharma and earlier works from the Raja Ravi Varma Press. Participate in free events like Creation Station: Indian Fold Painting inspired by the current exhibit where you will create works as well as hear a storytelling session to connect visitors with the importance of deities for everyday life in India.
12. RICE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY www.ricegallery.org
Dinh Q. Lê: Crossing the Farther Shore is an installation commissioned by the Gallery, on view thru August 28. Dinh Q. Lê is the first Vietnamese artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His approach to photography is as a malleable material to splice, interweave and distort to explore his own relationship to Vietnam’s complicated cultural and political history. 14. CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON www.camh.org
Mexico City-based artist, Melanie Smith’s Xilitla: Dismantled 1; Bulto: Fragments; and Elevator close June 15. The three video-based installations cover work from 2010, 2011 and 2012. Ongoing is Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin & Bones, 20 Years of Drawing which portrays the artist’s epic narrative surrounding the Mounds and the cast of colorful and often not so colorful characters who populate a wildly fantastic invented landscape. 15. THE JUNG CENTER OF HOUSTON www.junghouston.org Visit this diverse center to learn something new through programs (many free) in areas of psychology, spirituality, the arts and humanities and mind/body or visit the Knowledge Center to access hundreds of articles through the Jung Page and discover other Jungian organizations. Visit the website for a full monthly calendar of events.
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