Houston Museum of Fine Art will debut ~David Hockney :Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away).Details below

 

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In March 2027, MFAH Hosts U.S. Debut of David Hockney: Bigger & Closer  (not smaller & further away), an Immersive, Filmic Journey through the  Artist’s Life and Career 

David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away). Photo by Justin Sutcliffe © David Hockney

Houston, Texas – October 7, 2026 Boldly experimental in his work and unabashedly 

positive in his worldview, David Hockney (1937-2026) was one of the world’s most 

influential artists, freely embracing multiple careers as a painter, printmaker, 

photographer, filmmaker and stage designer. In March 2027, the Museum of Fine Arts, 

Houston will host the U.S. debut of David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further  away).

An immersive, gallery-size projection that allows visitors to see the world as if 

through Hockney’s eyes, Bigger & Closer offers a unique portrait of the artist,

transcending  the conventions of documentary filmmaking to bring viewers

into a deeper understanding  of his art. The installation will be on view at the

MFAH from March 7 through September 6,  2027. 

“Having had the joy and privilege of collaborating with David Hockney over the years,

I am  especially pleased that we will host this marvelous journey through the artist’s

life and  work,” comments Gary Tinterow, director and Margaret Alkek Williams chair of the MFAH. 

“While visitors in the UK and Asia have been able to experience this remarkable coproduction with London’s Lightroom, our presentation will be the first opportunity for U.S. audiences.” Consistently fascinated with the possibilities of new media, David Hockney embarked in 2020 on a remarkable collaboration with the dynamic videographers at Lightroom, the London-based production house that produces artist-led

digital environments. Together, they created David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) as a dynamic,

immersive 50-minute journey through 60 years of Hockney’s art, which premiered in London in 2023.

David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) was created by David Hockney and Lightroom, London, in collaboration with Mark Grimmer, David Hockney Studio, and the composer Nico Muhly. 

 

Organization and Funding  

This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in association with Lightroom and Paquin Entertainment Group.

Gretchen Himsl and Caton Fenz 

Sis Johnson 

Laura and Keefer Lehner 

Mr. and Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis 

Winnie Scheuer and Kevin Bonebrake 

SB NextGen Endowment 

 

Official Promotional Partner: 

  

This exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from: 

  

Major support is provided by: 

Jerold B. Katz Foundation 

Bobbie Nau 

 

Generous support is provided by: 

Jesse Jones II and Terry Wayne Jones 

The Radoff Family 

JBD Foundation 

Jereann Chaney 

Gretchen Himsl and Caton Fenz 

Sis Johnson 

Laura and Keefer Lehner 

Mr. and Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis 

Winnie Scheuer and Kevin Bonebrake 

SB NextGen Endowment 

Partner: 

About the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 

Spanning 14 acres in the heart of Houston’s Museum District, the MFAH main campus comprises the Audrey Jones Beck Building, the Caroline Wiess Law Building, the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden and the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building. Nearby, two house museums—Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, and Rienzi—present collections of American and European decorative arts. The MFAH is also home to the Glassell School of Art, with its Core Residency Program and Junior and Studio schools; and the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), a leading research institute for 20th-century Latin American and Latino art. www.mfah.org 

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Emmi Whitehorse exhibit of ~Intimate Landscapes Prt 2 of the Wheelwright Museum of American Indian is on view June 18- October 3, 2026. The Lew Allen Galleries will be displaying two of her works on paper >.

It's a beautifEmmi White Horse dialogues EmmiE RECENT ARRIVALS: EMMI WHITEHORSE "In celebration of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian's two-part retrospective Emmi Whitehorse: Intimate Landscapes, on view in Santa Fe through October 2026, LewAllen Galleries is honored to present two premier works by the Navajo (Diné) painter.   Whitehorse's paintings, assembled from dry pigment, oil, pastel, and graphite on paper mounted on canvas, are richly layered, each mark set within fields of deep violet, storm blue, and dusted earth. Drawn from the landscapes and cosmologies of the Navajo Nation, the works register a generational intimacy with place and an abiding attentiveness to the sacred within it. Subtle allusions abound to the movement of mesa shadows, the chromatic shifts of first light on dry soil, the forms of seed pods, pollen grains, and animal tracks impressed into frost. Across her surfaces, Whitehorse develops an indigenous lexicon of signs, encompassing curving tendrils, biomorphic notations, and calligraphic traces,. This visual language that situates permanence and mutability in continuous relation, rooting the poetics of change within the interplay of natural and cultural idioms. Her paintings reclaim the formal ambitions of postwar abstraction, the tensile lyricism of Twombly’s line, the atmospheric chromatic fields of Rothko, and return them to an inherited knowledge of land shaped through Diné oral tradition and sustained painterly attention. Whitehorse has described her practice as “the story of knowing land over time” and of “being completely, microcosmically within a place.” Within these compositions, the Diné concept of Hózhó, a state of balance among nature, humanity, and the cosmos, finds expression through a meditative visual language of layered color and finely calibrated line. Her grandmother, a master weaver, instructed her never to approach the work in a state of imbalance; the paintings honor this ethic, unfolding as contemplative fields fusing the ancient dignity of petroglyphic compositions with a sinuous, calligraphic precision. ​ LewAllen Galleries is pleased to present two exemplary works: EMMI WHITEHORSE: ICE PLANT Emmi Whitehorse, Ice Plant, 1999, Oil & chalk on paper on canvas, 39.5 x 51.25 in In Ice Plant, Whitehorse first builds a luminous ground by applying oil paint washes to the flat paper surface. Vast, vaporous expanses of earthy ochre and blush glow above slates, cool pewters, and deep blues, establish the work's tranquil, atmospheric foundation. DETAILS EMMI WHITEHORSE: BLUE FIELD II Emmi Whitehorse, Blue Field II, 1995, Oil & chalk on paper on canvas, 40.5 28.5 in In Blue Field II, dusty amethyst and deep plum create a lyrical interplay and atmosphere of depth, utilizing a reductive palette to emphasize a rhythmic calligraphic nature of her hand. DETAILS

Born 1957 in Crownpoint, New Mexico, Emmi Whitehorse is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. Whitehorse began exhibiting in the late 1970s as a member of the Grey Canyon group alongside Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, whose members were among the first Indigenous artists to claim modernist abstraction as a vehicle for Indigenous ways of seeing. Her work has since entered the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. The Wheelwright retrospective, comprising forty works across two rotations from the earliest series of 1980 through a new painting created for the exhibition, offers an expansive account of the breadth and significance of her vision. The two paintings presented by LewAllen Galleries are exemplary of Whitehorse’s singular visual language, registering fleeting sensory perceptions rendered by the hand of one of America’s most prized contemporary painters."

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