Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, MFAH

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in the museum district contains both departmental and cross-departmental galleries. This approach allows visitors to not only delve into the materials, geographies, and art forms in which modern and contemporary art have developed, but also to explore the ways in which varied artistic ideas, styles, and themes have transcended those boundaries. The multiple stories of modern and contemporary art-making are articulated throughout the building.

A flexible black-box gallery at the street-level entry of the Kinder Building is permanently devoted to immersive installations.

The second-floor galleries will be organized by curatorial department, and each highlights collection strengths. Suites of galleries are devoted to the history of photography; decorative arts, craft, and design; prints and drawings; European and American 20th-century painting and sculpture; and Latin American Modernism. Incorporating all major movements, and representing the internal histories of these media, the galleries create novel juxtapositions by cutting across national borders and chronological categories. Decorative arts and works on paper are interspersed among paintings and sculpture in the European, American, and Latin American galleries.

The third-floor galleries feature thematic exhibitions.