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• Nov 22nd 12am

  All Day

  Panamanian Children's Art Exhibit

  This month the Children's Services is featuring a Panamanian Children's Art Exhibit by children of Ponuga,Province of Veraguas, Republic of Panama. Please sign a register with your comments for the children

  Library: Barbara Bush @ Cypress Creek Branch Library

  Harris Country Public Library

  
  Houston, TX
• Nov 22nd 12am

  All Day

  African Americans in World War II

  Galveston County Historical Museum will host a new traveling exhibit this fall that will tell the story of African Americans’ service in World War II. The museum is asking the public to share their stories for possible inclusion. The exhibit opens September 1.

  Galveston County Historical Museum

  2219 Market Street
  Galveston, TX
• Nov 22nd 12am

  All Day

  “Dr. Seuss Wants You!”

  “Dr. Seuss,” whose real-life name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, is best known for his children’s books written under the “Dr. Seuss” pen name, but he was a life-long cartoonist and served as chief political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM from 1941-1943, a period in which the Nazi regime prospered – prompting more than 400 editorial cartoons from Geisel. The unexpected and serious

  Holocaust Museum Houston

  5401 Caroline Street
  Houston, TX 77004
• Nov 22nd 12am

  All Day

  Permanent Exhibit: “Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers”

  Authentic film footage, artifacts, photographs and documents show life in pre-war Europe, the Nazi move toward the “Final Solution” and life after the Holocaust. The exhibit includes a very rare and poignant collection of children’s shoes recovered from the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland. The Museum’s permanent exhibits includes an authentic World War II rail car of the ty

  Holocaust Museum Houston

  5401 Caroline Street
  Houston, TX 77004
• Nov 22nd

  9am

  Developing Houston: Photographic Treasures from the Cecil Thomson Collection

  Developing Houston: Photographic Treasures from the Cecil Thomson Collection, a collection of over 200 photographs and period artifacts from the Museum's collections, will be opening on Memorial Day weekend. The exhibit, with photographs and artifacts from 1885 to 1945, captures the neighborhoods, businesses, notables, architectural gems and events that define Houston's unique character during a p

  San Jacinto Monument And Museum

  3523 Battleground Road
  La Porte, TX 77571
• Nov 22nd

  10am to 4pm

  African Americans in World War II

  Galveston County Historical Museum, 2219 Market St.:  Galveston County Historical Museum will host a new traveling exhibit this fall that will tell the story of African Americans' service in World War II. The museum is asking the public to share their stories for possible inclusion. The exhibit opens September 1.

   

  Galveston County Historical Museum

  2219 Market Street
  Galveston, TX
• Nov 22nd

  10am to 3pm

  Mary Collects

  Moody Mansion Museum, 2618 Broadway:  Moody Mansion presents Mary Collects. As was typical of her generation, Mary Moody Northen collected a variety of art objects and memorabilia. This exhibit will showcase the breadth of those collections ranging from Russian icons, to Lalique swans to Native American jewelry, to postcards and greeting cards. The exhibit will open on the 116th annivers

  Moody Mansion Museum

  2618 Broadway
  Galveston, TX
• Nov 22nd

  7pm

  A One-Man Army: The Art of Arthur Szyk

  Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was described by Eleanor Roosevelt as a "one-man army," using art as a weapon to garner support for the social and political issues in which he believed.

  Szyk (pronounced Shick) was born in Lodz, Poland. He studied art in Paris and lived in London before immigrating to the United States in 1940. Szyk believed his art could make a difference in the world and became one of th

  Holocaust Museum Houston

  5401 Caroline Street
  Houston, TX 77004
• Sep 12th 12am

  to Nov 23rd 12am

  The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Selections from The Atlas Group Archive

  Since 1999, this provocative Lebanese- American artist has been building an archive of audio, visual and literary documents - some fiction, some fact - known as The Atlas Group, a fictional foundation that documents the spiraling cycles of violence in contemporary Lebanon, while calling into question the veracity of accepted sources.

  This, the first exhibition of the Atlas Group's work to be shown

  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  1001 Bissonnet
  Houston, TX 77265
• Nov 6th 12am

  to Dec 14th 12am

  Michael A. Salter: too much

  Thursday, 6 November

  Opening Celebration 5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Remarks by the artist at 6:00 pm

  Friday, 7 November at Noon

  Gallery Talk by Michael Salter

  Complimentary light lunch for all who attend

  For too much, his installation at Rice Gallery, artist Michael Salter has wrapped the walls with his personal icons and pictograms. Leaning against one of the walls is a massive, slouching Styrobot built from

  Rice University Art Gallery

  Venue Rice University Art GalleryAddress 6100 Main Street Houston TX 77005 Phone 713 348 6169URL http //ricegallery org/new/exhibition/dust htmlStart Date May 29 2008End Date August 29 2008
  Houston, TX 77005