Houston, home to Rice University, is celebrated as one of America's most creative southern cities. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), the Menil Collection, and the contemporary Arts Museum (CAM) produce world class exhibitions. Houston is home to alternative art spaces such as the Art Car Museum, Diverse-Works, Lawndale Art Center, the Orange Show, and Project Row Houses. Within blocks of Rice, you will find the MFAH, the CAM, the Holocaust Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Craft. Visible throughout the city are sculptures by the likes of Miro, Moore, Oldenburg, and Giacometti. Numerous galleries provide wall space for national and local talent.
On campus, the Rice University Art Gallery presents a season of commissioned and site-specific installations by international painters, sculptors, photographers, and videographers. Movie buffs can experience art at 24 frames per second in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts Film Program's cinema, which screens new, classic, independent, and documentary films. Visitors, students, staff, and faculty also have the privilege of experiencing live professional and student stage productions in our Theatre Program, staging two productions per year that range from comedy to tragedies to musicals.
Houston arts are not confined to two or three dimensions. Houston supports a resident symphony, opera, repertory theaters, and ballet companies. Walk across the street to hear free outdoor concerts at Hermann Park or stay on campus and listen to the sounds emanating from Rice's own Shepherd School of Music.
The Station Museum of Contemporary Art