Eye on Third Ward, the annual exhibition of photographs by students from Jack Yates High School designed to express the distinctive identity of Houston's historic Third Ward, this year for the first time includes photographs from the teens' personal lives. The exhibition opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on February 10, where it will be on view in the Audrey Jones Beck Building through May 26, 2008.

The first free Family Day of 2008 on Sunday, January 20, at Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens brings Texas history and lore to life with a theatrical performance, storytelling, and a demonstration of equipment and uniforms used by early Texas soldiers.

The African American Art Advisory Association (Five-A) of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the 12th Annual Citywide African-American Art Exhibition at nine venues from February 1 to 29, 2008. Photography dominates the works by the 28 artists in this year´s exhibition, and fashion is included for the first time. Other media represented are paintings, drawings, sculpture, mixed media, and assemblage.

The photography department of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is mounting four exhibitions that will be on view during Houston´s biennial photography celebration, FotoFest 2008, running March 7 through April 20, 2008. Exhibitions of work by the American photographer and photo historian Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) and the German-born English photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983) are drawn from the museum´s own extensive photography collection.

Tradition and modernist sensibility merge with poetic results in Where Clouds Disperse: Ink Paintings by Suh Se-ok, opening January 27, 2008 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The show presents 29 works spanning nearly 50 years by the prominent Korean artist who demonstrates that the ancient medium of ink can be adapted to create innovative abstract works.

Well, hello Dolly! It's so nice to have you back where you belong! Theatre Under The Stars proudly presents the grand dame musical, Hello, Dolly! starring Leslie Uggams, February 26-March 9 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (800 Bagby at Walker).

Patrons who bring blank books or journals to the Alley Theatre between 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2008 can purchase up to two tickets to the Alley Theatre's 2:30 p.m. production of Love, Janis that day.

In their final terrifying hours on August 24 and 25, A.D. 79, residents of Pompeii and the nearby coastal resort towns of Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Terzigno in southern Italy gathered objects precious to them and tried to escape the fury of Mount Vesuvius.

A selection of 47 works from the Modern and contemporary art collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opens at Mexico City´s Museo de Arte Moderno, the first in an anticipated series of collaborations between the two museums.

Ring in the holiday cheer when one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made comes to life on stage! Based on Frank Capra's 1946 classic film, Theatre Under The Stars proudly presents the timeless masterpiece A Wonderful Life as its holiday production, December 11-23 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (800 Bagby at Walker).

This season, the Alley Theatre presents its dazzling version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas, adapted and directed by Michael Wilson, former Alley Theatre Associate Director and Artistic Director of Hartford Stage Company.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Nan Goldin: Stories Retold—a career-spanning exhibition charting the evocative and highly personal work of one of America´s most significant artists. On through February 10, 2008, Nan Goldin: Stories Retold marks the American museum debut of Goldin´s Sisters, Saints, and Sibyls (2004), recently acquired by the MFAH.