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With vivid colors and stylized storylines, anime has amassed a worldwide cult following. This contemporary Asian animation genre has its origins in Japanese manga comics, and the MFAH presents a sampling to accompany the MFAH exhibition RED HOT — Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection (now through Oct 21st). Featured are a family favorite from South Korea distributed by the Houston-based company ADV Films, plus two instant classics from Japan. Tonight's Film...

Mixed Media Series at MFA It's baaaaaack! Yep, for the last few months every time an email from the MFA popped up in our inbox we hoped and prayed it was an annoucement of a new Mixed Media series. This week we were rewarded! Whoo-hoo! [The Deets] Find where art and music intersect on select Saturday nights at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. DJs spin and bands play against an arresting backdrop of...

MFA Special Screening [Film + Lecture] Last week, we told you all about the amazing Asian Art collection that is currently being showcased all over the city in various museums, the largest at the Museum of Fine Arts. In conjunction with the MFA's RED HOT — Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection they will screen a.k.a. Nikki S. Lee and prsent a conversation with the Filmmaker, tonight in Brown Auditorium. Korean photographer Nikki...

The Museum of Fine Arts is opening a huge contemporary show this Sunday called Red Hot: Asian Art Today, all from the private collection of the Chaney family. This is big news not only because contemporary Asian art is (as the title suggests) about the hottest thing going, but also because seven other galleries in Houston are presenting contemporary Asian art *at the same time.* In combination, this is probably the largest collection of...