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Museum/Art

Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers

Starts Thursday, May 8, 2008
Ends Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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.

Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection

Starts Friday, August 22, 2008
Ends Sunday, March 1, 2009
Imaginary Spaces examines three centuries of paintings, sculpture and works on paper that depict invented landscapes and hypothetical or "built" environments.

Moneyville

Starts Saturday, September 27, 2008
Ends Sunday, January 18, 2009

This pulsating "city" shows kids how money makes the world go 'round. This exhibit at the Children's Museum creates opportunities for kids to develop an understanding of finances through role play and involvement in interactive challenges.

Bones: An Exhibit Inside You

Starts Friday, October 10, 2008
Ends Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Moody Gardens' Bones features a spotlight on today's health issues, including how to maintain healthy bones. Children learn more about bones, anatomy, and even the importance of staying active.

Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science Investigation

Starts Friday, October 10, 2008
Ends Sunday, January 11, 2009
The exhibition features Leonardo, the most perfectly fossilized plant-eating dinosaur ever discovered—with almost all of his skin still intact.

Body Worlds 2 & the Brain ? Our Three Pound Gem: The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies

Starts Friday, October 10, 2008
Ends Sunday, February 22, 2009
Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds 2 showcases more than 200 real human body specimens, including more than 20 whole bodies; healthy and unhealthy organs; and body parts and slices; all preserved through the revolutionary process of Plastination. "The Three Pound Gem," discusses the human brain including brain performance, improvement, development and function.

Einstein

Starts Saturday, October 11, 2008
Ends Sunday, January 4, 2009
Take a closer look at the life and work of Albert Einstein. You can explore Einstein's theories of light, time, gravity, and energy, while learning about how he was able to use his fame to as a political voice.

Celebrating 10 Years of the Design Council

Starts Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Ends Sunday, January 4, 2009
The exibihtion celebrates the various contributions of the Design Council and features works by architects and designers including Edgar Brandt, Cesare Casati, Donald Deskey, Hella Jongerius, Ingeborg Lundin, Verner Panton, Gilbert Rhode, Hiroshi Suzuki and Ettore Sottsass.

Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie

Starts Friday, October 31, 2008
Ends Sunday, February 15, 2009
Approximately 75 important and rarely exhibited paintings, drawings and sculptures by Ernst from the early 1930s to the late 1940s will be on display at the Menil Collection. Ernst explores themes of Eros and nature's relationship with culture and technology, in strange and surreal landscapes of dense foliage.

Music

The Black Crowes with Grace Potter

Starts Thursday, November 20, 2008
Ends Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Black Crowes, a blues-oriented hard rock jam band that has sold over 20 million albums, comes to town with up-and-comer Grace Potter, whose band is a mix of funky blues, soul and rock.

Metallica

Starts Thursday, November 20, 2008
Ends Thursday, November 20, 2008
Metallica, one of the most commercially successful and influential heavy metal bands, has sold millions of records worldwide and won multiple Grammy Awards. Don't miss your chance to see Metallica with special guests Down and The Sword.

Theatre

Art and Power in the Central African Savanna

Starts Friday, September 26, 2008
Ends Sunday, January 4, 2009
This exhibition of 60 works on display at the Menil Collection will feature art from four different African cultures: the Chokwe, the Luluwa, the Songye and the Luba.

Secret Order

Starts Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Ends Sunday, November 23, 2008

A young biologist's personal ambition to find a cure for cancer thrusts him into the money hungry world of medicine.

Chava Alberstein

Starts Thursday, November 20, 2008
Ends Thursday, November 20, 2008
Help the Society of Performing Arts celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Israel with the "First Lady of Israeli Song", Chava Alberstein. A gold and platinum recording artist, Alberstein is considered to be a true folk singer, speaking for a culture and tradition.

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