From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection opens Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight on January 24, 2025, an exhibition focused on the vibrant, politically charged abstract…

01.24.25 | 07.13.25

From the Menil Collection: "Tacita Dean: Blind Folly is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by the British European visual…

10.11.24 | 04.19.25

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to announce Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions, on view April 26–August 25, 2024. The exhibition highlights…

04.26.24 | 08.25.24

From the Menil Collection: "This exhibition focuses on the abstract paintings made by Janet Sobel (1893–1968) during the 1940s. Short-lived but meteoric, her career began…

02.23.24 | 08.11.24

From the Menil Collection: "This fall, the Menil Collection will present Hanne Darboven—Writing Time, on view at the Menil Drawing Institute October 27, 2023–February 11,…

10.27.23 | 02.11.24

From the Menil Collection: "This exhibition presents more than one hundred portraits made over the past twenty years by Houston-based artist Nestor Topchy (b. 1963).…

08.04.23 | 01.21.24

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection will open an exhibition of drawings by Polish- born American artist Si Lewen (1918–2016) at the Menil Drawing…

04.21.23 | 09.03.23

From the Menil Collection: "Once dubbed “the marvelous mad maven of modern art in America,” Walter Hopps (1932–2005) estimated that he had curated some 250…

03.24.23 | 08.13.23

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to announce Art of the Cameroon Grassfields, A Living Heritage in Houston, an exhibition celebrating the…

02.17.23 | 07.09.23

From the organizers: "Presented by Aurora Picture Show and the Menil Collection Location: The Menil Collection Front Lawn - 1533 Sul Ross Aurora Picture Show…

05.06.23 | 05.06.23

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to present Samuel Fosso: African Spirits, an exhibition of the fourteen, large-scale gelatin silver prints from…

08.05.22 | 01.15.23

From the Menil Collection: "Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition is the first major transatlantic retrospective on the Swiss artist, and the first in the U.S. in more…

03.25.22 | 09.18.22

From the Menil Collection: "Artist Marcia Kure (b. 1970) has been commissioned to create the third of an ongoing series of ephemeral wall drawings in…

10.01.21 | 08.15.22

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to present Collection Close-Up: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs. The exhibition comprises a selection of the American photographer’s…

12.10.21 | 05.29.22

To register for this upcoming discussion, go here. From the Menil Collection: "Join Houston-based curators and artists in considering the role of photography in the…

05.11.22 | 05.11.22

For more information on this event, go here. From the organizers: "Aurora and The Menil Collection present this lively, annual evening of community-sourced projections covering…

05.07.22 | 05.07.22

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to announce Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work, the first museum exhibition survey of the…

10.29.22 | 04.23.22

From Aurora Picture Show: "Friday, March 11 (7PM) Location: The Menil Collection, Main Building Lawn - 1533 Sul Ross Street Free Admission Aurora Picture Show and…

03.11.22 | 03.11.22

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego are pleased to announce the opening of Niki de Saint…

09.10.21 | 01.23.22

From the Menil Collection: "Running along the western side of South America, the Andean Mountains have supported a rich, interconnected series of civilizations and empires…

07.30.21 | 11.14.21

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to announce renowned writer, critic, and curator Hilton Als as the upcoming speaker for the museum’s…

11.02.21 | 11.04.21

To register for the online artist talk with Ken Lum on August 18, 2021, go here. From the Menil: "Dream Monuments presents drawings that challenge…

05.21.21 | 09.19.21

From the Menil: "Houston-based artist Rick Lowe joins the Menil’s Senior Curator Michelle White for a conversation on the occasion of the museum’s recent acquisition…

08.24.21 | 08.24.21

A solo exhibition of painting by Virginia Jaramillo. From the Menil: "Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969-1974, is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. This…

09.26.20 | 07.04.21

To register for the In Dialogue event with the Menil on June 22, 2021, go here. From the Menil Collection: "Sarah Kielt Costello, associate professor of…

06.22.21 | 06.22.21

To register for the conversation on October 26, go here. To register for the In Dialogue program on December 8, go here. To register for…

09.26.20 | 06.20.21

To register for the artist talk on June 16, 2021, go here. From the Menil Collection: "Join the Menil for a live, online program with…

06.16.21 | 06.16.21

See more at the Menil's website here. From the Menil Collection: "Visual artist Jamal Cyrus, arts organizer, curator, and writer Peter Lucas, and DJ and…

05.01.21 | 05.01.21

To register for the online symposium from April 7-9, go here, here and here. "Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century, the first large-scale…

11.14.20 | 04.11.21

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to announce the opening of Draw Like a Machine: Pop Art, 1952–1975 at the Menil Drawing…

10.29.21 | 03.13.21

In Dialogue is an ongoing public program organized by the Menil Collection, and live streamed on this page  as well as their Youtube channel. "Independent…

08.26.20 | 08.26.20

Note: This event is online only An online conversation from the Menil Collection. From the Menil: "Artist Jamal Cyrus joins Michelle White, the Menil’s Senior…

07.15.20 | 07.15.20

This exhibition presents the wide reach of the surreal imagination in modern and contemporary photography. Anchored in historical Surrealism, it explores photography’s central tension between…

02.05.20 | 06.14.20

"A thematic exploration of the Menil’s permanent collection, Collection Close-Up: Of Heaven and Earth surveys the representation of birds in the history of art since…

11.15.19 | 03.15.20

"This fall, the Menil will present Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale. Meaning “no map” in the Pitjantjatjara…

09.13.19 | 02.02.20

Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Irene Shum discusses the eighteen-foot-long ink drawing "Written Minneapolis (The Last Tomb)," 2014 by Iranian-American artist Siah Armajani (b. 1939).…

01.12.20 | 01.12.20

"Associate Professor of Greek and Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology at the University of Texas, Austin, Nassos Papalexandrou will speak on the role of…

12.14.19 | 12.14.19

"In conjunction with the exhibition "Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale," professor and author Fred Myers will discuss…

12.05.19 | 12.05.19

"Berlin-based artist Jorinde Voigt will deliver an Artist Talk in conjunction with the unveiling of her monumental new work commissioned for the Menil Drawing Institute.…

09.28.19 | 09.28.19

"Baldwin will share images and recount some of the extraordinary experiences of his illustrious career. Copies of the book will be available for purchase, and…

08.28.19 | 08.28.19

An solo installation in the main building of the Menil Collection by Mineko Grimmer.

05.31.19 | 07.14.19

"Collection Close-Up: John Cage presents New River Rocks and Smoke (1990), a monumental watercolor created in 1990 by American artist John Cage (1912–1992). Known primarily…

02.01.19 | 05.22.19

"Epidemic! Presents: Step and Screw!, a series of thirty works on paper by Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, combines illustrations and text in a comic…

01.25.19 | 05.19.19

A free, public lecture by Dr. Lucy Lippard, author of Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West.

05.17.19 | 05.17.19

A free lecture in Houston. "This lecture focuses on a group of Oldenburg’s "Street" drawings, monotypes, and collages in the Menil collection, and addresses the…

04.25.19 | 04.25.19

"Join Curatorial Assistant Haley Berkman Karren for a discussion of Yves Klein’s "Blue Rain (Pluie Bleue) (S 36)" (1961) and the reinstallation of the Menil's…

04.14.19 | 04.14.19

"As part of the Menil’s ongoing lecture series with contemporary artists, British artist Tacita Dean will discuss how her work in film, photography, and drawing…

02.12.19 | 02.12.19

"Roberta Bernstein will examine selected works from The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns at the Menil Drawing Institute and discuss how they…

01.23.19 | 01.23.19

"Sparked by a statement by Jasper Johns about "broken" representations of the human physique, poet and art critic John Yau will explore the artist’s use…

01.09.19 | 01.09.19

Houston-based writer, curator, and collector Jay Wehnert will lecture about his new book, Outsider Art in Texas: Lone Stars. For more on the book, go here.

12.12.18 | 12.12.18

"The Pacific Ocean and its more than 20,000 islands comprise one of the most expansive and culturally diverse regions of artistic production in the world.…

12.09.18 | 12.09.18

As part of the reinstallation of the Menil Collection main building, the Surrealism galleries have been reconfigured and expanded, including an entire room devoted to…

11.11.18 | 11.11.18

The public is invited to celebrate the opening of th Menil Drawing Institute, a building dedicated to the acquisition, exhibition, study, conservation, and storage of…

11.03.18 | 11.03.18

"Join The Menil Collection’s newly appointed Assistant Curator of Modern Art Natalie Dupêcher for a discussion of Joan Miró’s Painting (The Magic of Color) (Peinture…

10.14.18 | 10.14.18

"American artist Leslie Hewitt inaugurates the Menil's Contemporary Focus series with her work Where Paths Meet, Turn Away, Then Align Again (Distilled moment from over…

10.03.18 | 10.03.18

The Menil Collection reopens after a seven-month hiatus. In the museum's building-wide reinstallation, "the Menil’s most loved paintings and sculptures will be presented alongside promised gifts,…

09.22.18 | 09.22.18

Bring Your Own Beamer is back! Organized by the Menil Collection and the Aurora Picture Show, the evening will featuring filmmakers projecting their works onto the…

04.06.18 | 04.06.18

A show featuring nearly 50 sculptures, installations, and works on paper by Beirut-born Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum. The exhibition focuses on the "artist’s interest in…

10.13.17 | 02.25.18

Rachael Z. DeLue, professor at Princeton University, will examine the work of Kara Walker. DeLue has written extensively on a variety of topics including American…

02.09.18 | 02.09.18

"Through her On Belonging multidisciplinary project, Sehba Sarwar explores her life as a transnational citizen alongside her family’s history of migration and displacement. Sarwar’s live…

02.03.18 | 02.04.18

A show of thirty works selected to "tell a unique story about the Menil's history by constructing a narrative that walks visitors through the past thirty…

08.11.17 | 01.28.18

Art historian and University of Chicago professor Darby English will discuss the ideas behind his book 1971: A Year in the Life of Color.

11.30.17 | 11.30.17

A lecture by Palestinian curator Reem Fadda, the eighth recipient of the biennial Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. Fadda will discuss her recent research on contemporary art from…

10.27.17 | 10.27.17

Author and art critic Jed Perl will discuss the life and work of Alexander Calder. A book signing will follow the talk.

10.26.17 | 10.26.17

An exhibition featuring early works by Chryssa, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. During the late 1950s and 1960s, the six artists…

04.14.17 | 08.06.17

An exhibition exploring the life and objects created by the Dogon peoples. From the Menil Collection: " the sculptures, masks, necklaces, and other works by “unknown” artists…

02.03.17 | 07.09.17

An exhibition featuring drawings that have been promised to the museum in advance of the opening of the Menil Drawing Institute. The show includes works by Eva Hesse,…

02.24.17 | 06.18.17

An event featuring performances, readings, and a showcase of independent authors and publishers.

05.06.17 | 05.06.17

Aurora Picture Show and the Menil Collection are partnering again to present this year's BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)! Bring a lawn chair and watch members…

05.05.17 | 05.05.17

Via the Menil's website: "This exhibition brings together a selection of California artists who emerged following the Second World War and took advantage of the…

11.18.16 | 03.12.17

"Leah Dickerman, Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and co-organizer of the Robert Rauschenberg retrospective that…

02.10.17 | 02.10.17

A celebration of Houston's museums! Featuring performances be Da Camera, food trucks, screen printing, and more. This event includes the Menil Collection, the Houston Center…

01.28.17 | 01.28.17

Artist Amy Sillman will talk about her life and work. This event is part of the Menil Drawing Institute Conversation and Lecture Series.

01.13.17 | 01.13.17

An screening featuring Sunset, an unfinished film by Andy Warhol. "Warhol began making the film in 1964 when the Menil Collection founders John and Dominique de Menil commissioned…

08.19.16 | 01.08.17

An exhibition examining the line drawings of Cubist artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso The Line is curated by Carmen Giménez, guest curator, who was founding director of the…

09.16.16 | 01.08.17

An exhibition of works from the collection of Stephanie and John Smither. The artists in the collection often worked without gallery or museum aspirations and were largely…

06.10.16 | 10.16.16

An exhibition surveying the career of artist William Copley. The show traces Copley's stylistic developments from the early 1950s to the 1990s. Also included in the exhibition…

02.19.16 | 07.24.16

Salvador Dalí’s 1932 painting OEufs sur le Plat sans le Plat (Eggs on a Plate without the Plate) will be hung in the Surrealist galleries. It…

11.05.15 | 06.20.16

An exhibition centered on the themes of continuity and disruption. The show is curated by the CAMH Teen Council in collaboration with Haley Berkman and Jamal…

03.04.16 | 05.29.16

"The Menil and Aurora Picture Show co-host Houston’s third annual BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer). Started in November 2013, BYOB brings together a new wave…

05.27.16 | 05.27.16

An exhibition that highlights collages and works inspired by collage in the Menil Collection. The show contains works by Gene Charlton, Sari Dienes, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard…

12.16.15 | 05.01.16

A symposium exploring "drawings, first drafts, rehearsals, and other provisional works, exposing their role in shaping modern and contemporary art." Speakers include: Cornelia Butler, Hammer…

04.16.16 | 04.16.16

"Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. The reasons…

03.18.16 | 03.18.16

A film following artists who created land art. Troublemakers focuses on Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty, 1970), Walter De Maria (The Lightning Field, 1977) and Michael Heizer…

03.10.16 | 03.10.16

In this lecture, Charles Ray discusses subject matter as a formal element of sculpture.

03.04.16 | 03.04.16

An exhibition objects collected by Adelaide de Menil and late anthropologist Edmund Carpente. This is the first exhibition of this body of work and includes…

08.29.15 | 02.21.16

A night of films by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Co-presented by the Menil Collection and Aurora Picture Show.

02.12.16 | 02.12.16

Director of the Rothko Chapel David Leslie and Curator David Breslin discuss the ways in which art reflects and creates communities.

02.09.16 | 02.09.16

Charles Ray gives a talk, titled “Matisse & Super Clay: Thoughts on Bronze in Rodin, Degas, and Matisse.”

01.22.16 | 01.22.16

An exhibition of 100 works on paper that explores the historical roots and prominence of frottage, the method of mark-making through rubbing. Predominantly associated with Max…

09.11.15 | 01.03.16

French critic, curator, and art historian Yve-Alain Bois will speak about American artist Ellsworth Kelly.

11.23.15 | 11.23.15

Edmund de Waal talks about his new book The White Road: Journey into an Obsession, a narrative history of porcelain.

11.20.15 | 11.20.15

Menil Curator of Collections Paul R. Davis talks with Washington, D.C.–based artist Sam Gilliam about his work.

10.30.15 | 10.30.15

A lecture by contemporary sculptor Charles Ray.

10.23.15 | 10.23.15

A lecture by Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement winner and associate curator in the Department of Media and Performance Art at MoMA, Thomas J. Lax.

10.14.15 | 10.14.15

A talk with four Menil Collection curators–Paul Davis, Clare Elliott, Toby Kamps, and Michelle White–in which they’ll discuss their selections for the museum’s upcoming website…

05.07.15 | 05.07.15

Los Angeles-based architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, designers of the Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) building, discuss their plans for the new Menil campus structure.

04.29.15 | 04.29.15

The Menilfest and Gulf Coast Indie Book Fair present a day filled with art, books, live performances, films, and food. Includes special performances by the…

04.18.15 | 04.18.15

Art scholar William A. Camfield discusses the work of pioneering artist Francis Picabia and signs copies of the just-published Francis Picabia: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1,…

02.18.15 | 02.18.15

What does peace look like? This show explores the resonance in the visual arts of Gandhi’s ethics of nonviolence.

10.02.14 | 02.01.15

Hip-hop artist Bernard “Bun B” Freeman, Rice University Professor Anthony Pinn, and Lehigh University Professor Monica Miller discuss how Hip-Hop has been influenced by the…

01.13.15 | 01.13.15

This exhibit is the perfect union of cabinet of curiosity artist and cabinet of curiosity. Robleto has been researching NASA heartbeat recordings as well as…

08.15.14 | 01.04.15

The ultimate street photography! James Nares captured 16 hours of footage on the streets of Manhattan from a moving car. Using a high-def camera, typically…

11.13.14 | 11.13.14

Rice University architect Reto Geiser, Brooklyn College writer and musician David Grubbs, and Rice visual artist John Sparagana discuss the Menil and Rothko Chapel's acoustics,…

09.26.14 | 09.26.14

Objects from the Menil Collection selected and installed by NY-based artist Haim Steinbach. We pretty much guarantee there will be things you had no idea…

06.28.14 | 08.31.14

08.01.14 | 08.02.14

Continuing its exploration beyond René Magritte’s years leading up to World War II, the Menil presents a selection of works beginning in 1941 and concluding…

02.14.14 | 07.13.14

Political activists and self-taught photographers, Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss met in 1970 and began documenting everyday life in Grimes County, Texas. As a portrait…

03.13.14 | 07.06.14

The first major museum exhibition to focus on the breakthrough surrealist years of René Magritte, tracing strategies and themes from an important period in his…

02.14.14 | 06.01.14

Throughout her career, Bontecou has created drawings as a component of her artistic practice,  in relation to the sculptures for which she is renowned, and…

01.30.14 | 05.11.14

MenilFest takes over the Menil Campus for a day of free art and entertainment.

05.03.14 | 05.03.14

Exploring material connections between American abstraction and European figuration in the postwar period. Symposium speakers: Katrina Bartlett-Rush, Dr. Kent Minturn, Dr. Alexander Potts, and Dr. Richard Shiff. Moderator: Roja Najafi. 

05.02.14 | 05.02.14

A world-wide series of one-night exhibitions, BYOB invites artists to bring their own "beamers" (projectors) and explore the medium of moving images. BYOB allows participants…

04.25.14 | 04.25.14

In conjunction with the Magritte exhibition Aurora curator Mary Magsamen has curated a collection of short Surrealist films including Magritte’s own home movies. Location: Menil Collection Front…

03.28.14 | 03.28.14

The second installment in new series brings together a designer of buildings, a curator of exhibitions, and a theater director.

03.13.14 | 03.13.14

Menil curator Michelle White is joined by Maura Reilly, executive director of the Linda Pace Foundation; and Veronica Roberts, curator of modern and contemporary art…

02.27.14 | 02.27.14

It's the end of the world and you have only one potluck left!  Share what you would have at your last meal potluck style picnic,…

02.22.14 | 02.22.14

Organized by Menil Collection curator of modern and contemporary art Toby Kamps in collaboration with noted Wols scholar Dr. Ewald Rathke and the Kunsthalle Bremen,…

09.13.13 | 01.12.14

Nice. Luc Tuymans will present approximately 30 paintings by the artist from his earliest mature work G. Dam, 1978 to canvases finished as recently as…

09.27.13 | 01.05.14

What disturbance did Wols and fellow artist Jean Dubuffet experience on the Mediterranean coast? This year’s Morgan-Menil Fellow investigates that question. In conjunction with the exhibition…

11.25.13 | 11.25.13

Aurora Picture Show Hosts BYOB  at The Menil Collection. Dust off your slide, video, film or overhead projector and bring it to the Menil Collection where anyone…

11.22.13 | 11.22.13

Tuymans is beyond canonical reproach. Ellis cannot buy his way into the literary canon. They have never met. The Conversation begins. Tickets for indoor seating…

10.29.13 | 10.29.13

Franklin Sirmans, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (a position he previously held at the Menil), returns…

10.18.13 | 10.18.13

Art Historian Eileen Costello, author of  Brice Marden: Beyond Visual Reality, specializes in postwar American and European art, and has studied the work of Brice Marden over…

10.10.13 | 10.10.13

A new series of occasional conversations at the Menil, A Common Language invites artists from different disciplines to focus on and consider particular works of…

10.09.13 | 10.08.13

Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is known for his distinctive painting style, and for his choice of historically and emotionally charged subject matter. As the thirty…

09.27.13 | 09.27.13

With Menil Director Josef Helfenstein and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Toby Kamps,
 Luc Tuymans discusses his new exhibition, which juxtaposes the artist's celebrated…

09.27.13 | 09.27.13

Explore visual connections that span centuries in Byzantine Things in the World with curator Glenn Peers, curatorial assistant Susan Sutton and Rex Koontz, Director, University…

06.20.13 | 06.20.13

Delve into the obscure life of painter, fisherman, pseudo-hermaphrodite-Forrest Bess in the film screening of Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle. Director and author Chuck…

06.20.13 | 06.20.13

2012 Walter Hopps Award winner Cuauhtémoc Medina is an important figure in the recent prominence of art from Mexico City. Medina is a researcher at…

06.10.13 | 06.10.13

Menil conservators shed light on the renovation of the museum's site-specific satellite pavilion. Wednesday, March 27, 7:30 p.m. in the Menil foyer.

03.27.13 | 03.27.13

The Menil, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria join together to explore the changing modes and meanings…

12.02.12 | 03.17.13

The U.S. premiere of new performance piece by Jean-Claude Carrière, the screenwriter of "The Incredible Lightness of Being." A tightly condensed version of the ancient…

03.11.13 | 03.12.13

A new film installation inspired by Civil Rights-era photographs in the Menil Collection meditates on the distance in time that separates us from, while still…

01.26.13 | 03.05.13

Music from across the African continent – songs and tunes inspired by love in all its expressions – in this free public program designed to…

02.22.13 | 02.22.13

Radio Kaduna is a live performance with video that explores the meanings of true love within a Muslim-Christian household in pre-independence Nigeria. Presented in conjunction…

02.16.13 | 02.16.13

A special screening of a new documentary exploring the life and art of Texas art patriarch, Bert Long, Jr.

02.14.13 | 02.14.13

Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will speak on the work of Michael Heizer at the inagural Marion Barthelme Lecture,…

02.11.13 | 02.11.13

Rarely displayed collages offer insight into sculptor’s extraordinary take on the everyday.

09.20.12 | 02.03.13

The first of four multi-venue events replacing the former Museum District Day. On January 26, Houston Center for Photography joins the Rothko Chapel and the…

01.26.13 | 01.26.13

A panel discussion preceding weekend film series, presented in conjunction with the new exhibition "The Progress of Love" Kristina Van Dyke, curator of the exhibition…

01.10.13 | 01.10.13

The first exhibition to be drawn entirely from Menil Archives, organized by Menil Curator Michelle White and Menil Archivist Geraldine Aramanda Celebrates the lives and…

08.10.12 | 01.06.13

Composer Philip Glass will bring the Menil's 25th Anniversary celebrations to a finale when he performs an 80-minute concert of his works including the premiere…

12.02.12 | 12.02.12

Inspired by Claes Oldenburg's Geometric Mouse at Houston's Central Library, symposium speakers Lisa Freiman, curator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art; Tom Eccles, director of…

11.12.12 | 11.12.12

Co-organized by the Menil and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive the exhibition explores the realm of silence in modern and contemporary art.

07.27.12 | 10.21.12

Art writer for The New Yorker Calvin Tomkins has a vivid and highly personal view of John and Dominique de Menil, as well as events…

10.17.12 | 10.17.12

Bring a blanket and view the re-digitized 1977 documentary North Star: Mark di Suvero, directed by Francois de Menil, written by art historian Barbara Rose,…

10.05.12 | 10.05.12

The Menil's family and friends celebrate 25 years with the renowned Kashmere Reunion Stage Band, a scavenger hunt for the whole family, cake and ice…

09.22.12 | 09.22.12

Simultaneous performances in locations throughout The Menil Collection’s main building. The sounds of amplified cactus, crumpling paper, spoken word, tin cans, radios and electric guitars…

09.15.12 | 09.15.12

A welcoming ceremony wherein Maori delegates will perform traditional formalities, known as pōwhiri, to initiate their week long study of Maori works in the Menil…

09.14.12 | 09.14.12

54 images from 1962 to the present trace the wide-ranging evolution of a leading figure in the American street photography movement of the 1960s.

03.30.12 | 07.29.12

The first-ever critical overview of Serra's drawings is the first major one-person exhibition organized by the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center. Don't miss it:…

03.02.12 | 06.10.12

05.06.12 | 05.06.12

Join HCP and Exhibiting Artist Nancy LeVine for a group portrait featuring YOUR senior dog!  Bring your 10 year old (or older) furry friend to…

05.05.12 | 05.05.12

Co-sponsored by NANO Fiction and Gulf Coast, the fifth annual Houston Indie Book Fest celebrates small presses, magazines, and independent bookstores in Houston

04.14.12 | 04.14.12

The Menil Collection museum and a group of surrounding non-profit arts organizations come together to host a free afternoon of art and entertainment that will…

04.14.12 | 04.14.12

Independent scholar and curator Barbara Rose, the first Morgan-Menil Fellow, talks about the medieval Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana (c. 730 – c. 800) and…

04.03.12 | 04.03.12

In collaboration with the Menil's Serra show and its curator Michelle White, Aurora Picture Show presents an outdoor screening of films that explore the gesture…

03.23.12 | 03.23.12

Annemarie Weyl Carr, Professor of Art History at S.M.U., Pamela Smart, Professor of Anthropology and Art History, SUNY Binghampton, and William Vendley, Secretary General of…

02.19.12 | 02.19.12

Mining the Menil Collection's archives, curator Michelle White showcases rarely exhibited drawings by artists who largely had no contact with the mainstream art world.

09.23.11 | 01.15.12

An illustrated lecture by literary and visual critic Terry Castle, presented  in conjunction with the exhibition Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the Collection. Castle is…

01.12.12 | 01.12.12

Three suites of three works each: paintings, chrome sculptures, and vintage cars by the conceptual art master who brought you the New York Earth Room…

09.16.11 | 01.08.12

In a ceremony officiated by National Book Critics Circle Winner Lawrence Weschler, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, the Art Guys will…

11.19.11 | 11.19.11

For the  Rothko Chapel's 40th anniversary, the Menil Collection presents Thomas E. Crow, Professor of Modern Art at New York University,  a contributing editor of…

11.14.11 | 11.14.11

Who owns a particular work of art, idea, concept, process, or story?  Which museum or library, country or government, people or person? The Menil Collection…

11.03.11 | 11.03.11

The Menil Collection presents The Whole World Was Watching, a selection of works from a gift of more than 200 Civil Rights-era photographs from Edmund…

03.05.11 | 09.25.11

The Menil Collection, Houston and Dia Art Foundation will present a public program in memory of Cy Twombly, who died in Rome on July 5.…

09.22.11 | 09.22.11

The 8th annual Media Archeology Festival presents live cinema performance by Houston artist Robert Thoth, “The Chiptune Crooner.” The crooner will perform popular songs from…

09.16.11 | 09.16.11

Ancestors of the Lake: Art from Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea brings together this body of work together for the first time in…

05.05.11 | 08.28.11

Folded-paper artist Joan Son debuted her art in the windows of Tiffany & Co. in the spring of 1993 and has created numerous large scale…

08.07.11 | 08.07.11

Don't miss the Menil's presentation of Upside Down: Arctic Realities, an exhibition and museum-going experience. Rare and rarely exhibited examples of ancient Arctic art, many…

04.15.11 | 07.17.11

Adam Szymczyk, director of Switzerland's Kunsthalle Basel, is the fifth winner of the award established in 2001 in honor of founding director Walter Hopps (1932-2005).…

05.17.11 | 05.17.11

The Menil Collection presents an exhibition of rarely-seen drawings exploring Tony Smith's early work, the American artist best known for monumental geometric sculptures in steel…

02.18.11 | 04.03.11

This all day festival on the Menil "campus" will feature an indie book festival, a concert at the Rothko chapel and a family drum circle…

04.02.11 | 04.02.11

Rare and important pieces from the 6th to 18th centuries from the Menil’s collection of icons, widely regarded by scholars as one of the most…

10.21.11 | 03.18.11

Co-organized by the Menil Collection and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-66 is curated by Michelle White and…

11.18.10 | 02.20.11

Color and Collage marks the first U.S. overview of Kurt Schwitters's career since the Museum of Modern Art retrospective 25 years ago, on view at…

10.22.10 | 01.30.11

Organized by Assistant Curator Clare Elliott, the exhibition EARTH PAINT PAPER WOOD emphasizes works on paper from the 20th century from the Menil Collection's permanent…

09.20.10 | 11.28.10

Come out to the Menil on Wednesday, November 3rd from 7-8:30 pm and toast John and Dominique de Menil with a wine reception honoring the…

11.03.10 | 11.03.10

Religion is never far from art. A new exhibition, Objects of Devotion, at the Menil, explores this persistent connection. Culled from the museum's permanent collection…

08.13.10 | 10.31.10

Art historians, curators, and conservationists gather in Houston on Saturday, October 2 to present and discuss new research into the work of Henri Rousseau. The…

10.02.10 | 10.02.10

The Menil Collection proves time and time again how lucky Houstonians are to have it in their midst. From antiquities to fresh-out-of-the-studio contemporary art, the…

02.12.10 | 08.15.10

Drawn from the Menil’s archives and permanent collection, Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance is conceived and organized by Associate Curator Michelle…

03.20.10 | 08.08.10

Steve Wolfe on Paper at The Menil Collection highlights Wolfe's works on paper which incorporate drawing, collage, and printmaking. Known for his scrupulous handmade reproductions…

04.05.10 | 07.25.10

The Menil Collection and Main Street Theater Present a one night only public performance by Dario Fo, Nobel-prize winning playwright, director, and performer, in One…

06.15.10 | 06.15.10

The Menil Collection presents Annie Cohen-Solal, author of the new biography, Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli. Castelli's gallery opened in New…

06.10.10 | 06.10.10

Renowned curator Bisi Silva, founder and director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria, will speak at The Menil Collection for one night…

05.10.10 | 05.10.10

Head on over to The Menil Collection for a one night screening of the film Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies. "In 2007, New…

04.23.10 | 04.23.10

NANO Fiction and Gulf Coast host this year’s Houston Indie Book Festival through a collaboration with The Menil Collection. This is the third official year…

04.03.10 | 04.03.10

"Drawn from the Menil's diverse collection of over 16,000 objects, Body in Fragments explores the manner in which the human form is dissected and reconfigured…

08.21.09 | 02.28.10

"Painted in Rome in 1970, Treatise on the Veil marks a critical period in the career of Cy Twombly. One of the American artist's largest…

12.08.09 | 02.14.10

Marking the return of the museum's twentieth-century galleries to the building's east end, Museum Director Josef Helfenstein and Franklin Sirmans (now curator of contemporary art…

02.05.10 | 02.05.10

The Menil Collection presents the first major U.S. exhibition in nearly 40 years to focus exclusively on the work of Latin American artist Joaquín Torres-García.…

09.24.09 | 01.03.10

"Drawings On Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, organized by Bernice Rose, chief curator of the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center, in cooperation…

05.09.09 | 10.11.09

Contemporary Conversations: John Chamberlain, American Tableau, organized by Menil curator of modern and contemporary art Franklin Sirmans, is the "third in the Menil’s Contemporary Conversations'…

05.12.09 | 08.02.09

The Menil presents the first mid-career survey of this acclaimed artist's work to be mounted in North America. "Featuring more than 50 works, from intimate…

03.27.09 | 06.21.09

Check out some of the Menil's seldom-seen works, including prints from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, a few pre-Renaissance sculptures, and a small group…

02.06.09 | 04.26.09

Orgainzed by Asst. Curator Michelle White, Imaginary Spaces includes "three centuries of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper" from the Menil's permanent collection.

08.22.08 | 03.01.09

"Organized by the Museum Tinguely, Basel, and supplemented in Houston by work from The Menil Collection, this exhibition is conceived around the mural, Pétales et…

01.13.09 | 02.15.09

"The Menil Collection presents Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, an original exhibition that explores the political and religious power of nearly 60…

09.26.08 | 01.04.09

If you've think you've seen all of the Menil's African collection, well, you haven't. On Saturday, Apr. 12 at 7:30 pm hear Kristina Van Dyke,…

04.11.08 | 12.31.08

Co-organized by the Menil's Franklin Sirmans and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith "brings together a multigenerational group of North,…

06.27.08 | 09.21.08

Work by Saul Steinburg and Hedda Sterne from the 1940s through the early 1960s.

05.23.08 | 08.17.08

If you're into Max Neuhaus', then check out these drawings referencing forty years of his sound installations.

05.04.08 | 08.10.08

Featuring nearly 200 works on paper by just about everyone you could imagine, this show offers a preview of many works that will be the…

02.15.08 | 05.18.08

This is Frecon's first U.S. museum exhibition of her large-scale oil paintings. Join the artist and Menil director Josef Helfenstein for a gallery talk Monday,…

03.07.08 | 05.11.08

William Christenberry, William Eggleston, and Walker Evans.

01.11.08 | 04.20.08

This little show will focus exclusively on 1976, the year when Ryman busted out and got crazy with the hardware.

11.09.07 | 02.17.08

As listed in our Fall Preview: "Nauman is rightly viewed as one of the greats, as the early works in this show should testify. Organized…

10.25.07 | 01.13.08

Organized by Franklin Sirmans and Michelle White, Lessons from Below references the infamous

09.13.07 | 12.09.07

A curator, writer, art collector, and former trustee of The Menil Collection and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Whitney was a pioneer in modern and…

05.11.07 | 10.28.07

Come celebrate 20 years of patronage on the anniversary date of one of the best institutions in Houston! Featuring works by: Max Ernst, Ren

06.08.07 | 09.16.07

Read an interview with Rauschenberg from 1965! Don't miss a rare opportunity to see all this work in one place and read what Tyler Green…

02.23.07 | 05.13.07

Everyday People is both Franklin Sirmans’ first Menil show and the inaugural exhibition of The Menil's year-long celebration of its 20th anniversary.

01.01.70 | 04.29.07

Come out for this rare and special treat at The Richmond Hall on the Menil grounds!

04.21.07 | 04.21.07

Panel discussion on the exhibition Everyday People: 20th Century Photography, moderated by Franklin Sirmans, Curator at the Menil with Kathryn Davidson, former Curator of prints,…

03.22.07 | 03.22.07

Open Score is the first in a series of 10 films to be released documenting performances that occurred at the 69th Regiment Armory including: John…

03.14.07 | 03.15.07