SEPTEMBER
Sept. 10-Jan. 23 — “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s”: Capturing paintings and female sculptures from Franco-American artist’s vital 10 years. Menil Primary Creating.
Sept. 17-Dec. 19 — “Kapwani Kiwanga: The sand remembers the moon’s shadow”: Two immersive installations by Paris-based artist take a look at results of trade and labor on setting, modern society. Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University.
Sept. 17-Jan. 15 — “Emily Peacock: die laughing”: Houston-centered artist explores how we use humor to cope with tragedy. Lawndale Art Center.
Sept. 17-Jan. 15 — “Bria Lauren: Gold Was Built Fa’ Her”: Celebrating women of Houston’s Third Ward. Lawndale Art Middle.
Closes Sept. 19 — “Jamal Cyrus: The Conclude of My Beginning”: Texas Southern College professor explores Black id and cultural hybrids. Blaffer Art Museum.
Closes Sept. 19 — “Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and ’70s”: Exhibition planned by museum founders subverts waking everyday living. Menil Drawing Institute.
Closes Sept. 19 — “Monet to Matisse: Effect to Modernism from the Bemberg Foundation”: On bank loan from Toulouse only U.S. location. MFAH.
Closes Sept. 19 — “Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock”: Colombian artist’s radical fiber experiments. MFAH.
Closes Sept. 26 — “Ernesto Neto: SunForceOceanLife”: Interactive pathways suspended in midair. MFAH.
Oct
Oct. 2-Jan. 8 “Copy Culture: Zines Made and Shared”: Examining pre-online (but however-extant) lifelines for marginalized communities. Houston Heart for Modern Craft (HCCC).
Oct. 2-Jan. 8 — “Later, Longer, Much less: The Get the job done of Jennifer Ling Datchuk”: Porcelain sculptures, big-scale installations and movie interrogate woman stereotypes. HCCC.
Closes Oct. 3 — “Cauleen Smith: We Already Have What We Need”: LA multimedia artist urges kindness and sustainability. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
Closes Oct. 3 — “Nastassja Swift: Canaan: when I study your letter, I feel your voice”: Virginia artist’s installation/functionality conjures her incarcerated brother. Galveston Arts Centre.
Closes Oct. 9 — “In Home: 14th Edition”: Is effective in paper, steel, clay, fiber and stone. HCCC.
Closes Oct. 17 — “Withstand: Latinx Art in Occasions of Conflict”: Multimedia is effective by about 100 local artists. Holocaust Museum Houston.
Oct. 17-Jan. 23 — “Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer”: Virtually 100 images from modernist pioneer’s archive. MFAH.
Closes Oct. 24 — “Jagdeep Raina: Bonds”: Tales and scenes from Kashmiri, Punjabi diasporas. Blaffer.
Closes Oct. 24. “Martine Gutirrez: Radiant Cut”: Nonbinary Guatemalan American artist probes meanings of attractiveness and glamour. Blaffer.
Oct. 29-March 13 — “Draw Like a Equipment: Pop Artwork, 1952-1975”: Draftsmen synthesize mass media, advertisements into major movement. Menil Drawing Assortment.
Oct. 29-March 13 — “Spatial Consciousness: Drawings From the Permanent Collection”: Imaginative approaches to visualize room, mid-1900s to existing. Menil Drawing Institute.
Oct. 31-Jan. 30 — “Calder-Picasso”: Artists’ grandsons organized retrospective of 20th-century giants. MFAH.
NOVEMBER
Closes Nov. 14 — “Ryan Hawk: distorts of trespass”: Silicon sculptures and a movie set up explode notions of power and privilege. Galveston Arts Center.
Closes Nov. 14 — “Enchanted: Visible Histories of the Central Andes”: Textiles, ceramics and photographs from publish-1700 Peru. Menil Primary Building.
Closes Nov. 19 — “Modern and Up to date at the Menil”: Calder and Mondrian lead dizzying collection of abstracts. Menil Major Building.
DECEMBER
Dec. 10-May perhaps 29 — “Collection Shut-Up”: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs”: American’s eager eye for “worlds in transition.” Menil Most important Making.
Closes Dec. 31 — “Contacting Currents”: Inaugural installations at brand-new Kinder Setting up. MFAH.
Closes Dec. 31 — “Art of Islamic Lands: Alternatives from the el-Sabah Selection, Kuwait”: About 250 pieces from eighth to 18th hundreds of years. MFAH.
JANUARY
Closes Jan. 2. — “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience”: Dive into the Dutch put up-impressionist’s digitally re-made environment. Marq’e Enjoyment Middle.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 12-April 30 — “2021/22 Artist Studio Application Exhibition”: Showcasing Ryan Crowley, Jamire Williams and Loc Huynh. Lawndale Art Center.
MARCH
March 11-July 22 — “Notorious RBG”: The Daily life and Periods of Ruth Bader Ginsburg”: Interactive salute to late Supreme Court justice/civil legal rights hero. Holocaust Museum Houston.
March 25-Sept. 18 — “Méret Oppenheim: My Exhibition”: Singular Swiss artist’s first U.S. retrospective in 25 many years. Menil Main Making.
March 27-May perhaps 30 — “The Obama Portraits Tour”: See Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald’s iconic photos up near. MFAH.
APRIL
April 22-Aug. 7 — “Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw”: Self-taught American artist’s fantastical landscapes. Menil Drawing Institute.