Members Preview Lecture | "American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection"

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MFAH members are invited to preview the new exhibition American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection with an exclusive curatorial conversation between Alison de Lima Greene, the Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Kaylin Weber, the Lora Jean Kilroy Curator of American Painting and Sculpture. Tickets: to ensure a positive tour experience, capacity is limited. Tickets are required for all attendees. Exclusive to MFAH members. Related Events: Members Preview, Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24. This lecture takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the Lower Level of the Law Building. The exhibition is on Level 1 of the Beck Building. Questions? Call the members hotline at 713-639-7550, Monday–Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm, Sunday, noon to 5 pm, or email membership@mfah.org at any time. If you are not yet an MFAH member, join now to be eligible for free tickets along with other great benefits. About the Speakers: Alison de Lima Greene is the Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A member of the curatorial team responsible for the inaugural presentations in the MFAH's new Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in 2020, her exhibitions include retrospectives devoted to Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, and Tamara de Lempicka, as well as special installations planned in collaboration with Yayoi Kusama, Pipilotti Rist, and Anicka Yi. She co-organized the Houston showing of American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection and is the managing curator for the upcoming David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away) and Brancusi: The Shock of Life. Kaylin Haverstock Weber is the Lora Jean Kilroy Curator of American painting and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She received her BA in the history of art from Vanderbilt University, and her MPhil and PhD in the history of art from the University of Glasgow. Before coming to the MFAH, she worked at The National Gallery, London, and the Royal Collection. Weber has organized a number of significant exhibitions, including American Adversaries: Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley in a Transatlantic World, Radicals and Revolutionaries: America's Founding Fathers, and Three Centuries of American Art: The Fayez and Susan Sarofim Collection. She is co-curator of America 250 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.