Art Tour
VIEW EVENT DETAILSDocent-led tours of Asia Society Texas Center's exhibitions allow visitors to experience art on a personal level, learn about art historical periods and styles, and hear stories associated with the artwork.
About the Exhibitions
Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi
This exhibition focuses on recent sculptures by Bidou Yamaguchi that apply the forms, techniques, transformative spirit, and mysterious elegance of Noh masks to iconic female portraits from the European art historical canon, and to Kabuki actor prints of Sharaku, Japan’s enigmatic 18th century portrait master. These works radically extend Noh’s transformation of souls across time and space, projecting them into new cultural and physical dimensions. Traditions Transfigured includes educational and interactive components that show a set of masks displaying the carving process, a video explaining mask-making, and a secured mask that visitors can handle, try on, and photograph themselves wearing.
Mel Chin: Rematch
Asia Society Texas Center, Blaffer Art Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the Station Museum of Contemporary Art are proud to collaborate on the Houston presentation of Mel Chin: Rematch, the most expansive survey of Chin’s work to date and a homecoming for one of the city’s most renowned artists. Each of the six Mel Chin works on view at Asia Society Texas Center extends the artist’s connection to the culture, history, and aesthetics of Asia.
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Education programs at Asia Society Texas Center are made possible by support from Marathon Oil. Additional support provided by Asia Society contributors and members.