This video documents the creation of Cai Guo-Qiang's monumental gunpowder drawing, Odyssey, an ethereal landscape that lines the four walls of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery. The installation envelopes the gallery's display of ancient Asian artifacts. Created over several days in October 2010, the piece was created on 42 separate panels and stands at 162-by-10 feet. With his work at the MFAH, Guo-Qiang has produced his first permanent, site-specific installation in a United States museum.

 

Length: 7:11 min.

Forrest Carter, best-selling author of The Outlaw Josey Wales and The Education of Little Tree, was an exalted Cherokee hero of New Age wisdom. Twelve years after his death, Forrest’s true identity was uncovered. He was actually Asa Carter, violent Ku Klux Klansman and author of the infamous inaugural address given by Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1963, “Segregation Now!… Segregation Forever!” Gone To Texas will premiere on PBS in 2011.

Length: 6:46 min.

Alumni, faculty and students share their memories about Rice, in celebration of the university's centennial in 2012.

Length: 3:11 min.

China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and remains crucial in the present day politically, culturally, creatively, and economically.  In this gallery, contemporary and ancient masterpieces are displayed alongside one another.  Their placement, in a site-specific installation work by internationally-recognized artist Cai Guo-Qiang, opens up a visual dialogue that breathes new life into the early creations and emphasizes the timeless quality of the modern works.  Instead of detracting from individual traditions, this arrangement presents a more comprehensive image of China, reaching across the vastness of time and space to connect past to present and present to future.

Length: 3:23 min.

More than half of the 250,000 women who have been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding countries are mothers.  How do Marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen negotiate the complexities of juggling deployments and motherhood—and how will these stories about deploying mothers shape public opinion about women in combat and about women’s relationship to maternity?

Length: 12:36 min.

The ICAA at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston emphasizes the formation of a new collection and research culminating in major exhibitions, lectures, and symposia in Latin American art. The focus of the collection is modern and contemporary art in all media by artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean, as well as by U.S.-based Latino artists. The center also provides specialized resources and professional experience to students preparing for curatorial careers in the field. Founded in 2001, the Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

 

Length: 7:32 min.

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For more than five decades, Carlos Cruz-Diez (born 1923) has experimented intensively with the origins and optics of color. His wide-ranging body of work includes unconventional color structures, light environments, street interventions, architectural integration projects, and experimental works that engage the response of the human eye while insisting on the participatory nature of color. This video gives an overview of Cruz-Diez's remarkable portfolio of architectural and street projects. It was produced on the occasion of the exhibition: Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 6 through July 4, 2011.

Length: 8:33 min.

We all naturally connect music with the people, places and memories of our lives. Voices is a series of original theme-based video vignettes that bring to life compelling stories shared by people around the world. Voices is all about your memories and the stories behind your memories as told by you… and of course, the song.

Length: 3:34 min.