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The Menil Collection is a unique museum environment located in the Montrose-area Museum District housing the collection of John and Dominique de Menil. The museum building is the centerpiece of a neighborhood featuring satellite gallery spaces and related cultural instituitons set in a parklike setting.

The Menil Collection opened in 1987 to preserve and exhibit the art collection of John and Dominique de Menil. Considered one of the most important privately assembled collections of the twentieth century, The Menil Collection houses approximately 15,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and rare books. Masterpieces from antiquity, the Byzantine and medieval worlds, the tribal cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the American Pacific Northwest, and the twentieth century are particularly well represented. Among the highlights of the museum are its Surrealist holdings, widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost collections of its kind. The Menil Collection displays selections from its permanent collection and regularly offers special exhibitions and programs to the public.

Acclaimed by critics as a triumph of modern architecture, The Menil Collection was designed by a joint venture of Renzo Piano/Building Workshop, Genoa, Italy and Richard Fitzgerald & Partners, Houston. The museum’s ingenious roof and skylight system, interior atrium gardens, and large windows fill the galleries with natural light, reflecting subtle changes of weather, season, and time of day. Throughout the museum, visitors find quiet, contemplative spaces, ideal for viewing art.

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    Menil Collection

    1515 Sul Ross
    Houston, TX 77006

    Phone: 713-525-9400   |   Fax: 713-525-9444   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    10/21/11- 03/18/12	Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection Menil Collection Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection October 21, 2011-March 18, 2012 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection. On view October 21, 2011 – March 18, 2012.  The Menil’s collection of Byzantine icons is widely regarded by scholars in the field as one of the most important of its kind in the United States. The group of more than sixty works, many of which were acquired by Dominique de Menil in 1985 from the noted collector Eric Bradley,...
    01/01/07- 03/04/12	Visit the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Byzantine Fresco Chapel Visit the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Presented by Menil Collection at Byzantine Fresco Chapel January 1, 2007-March 4, 2012 The Byzantine Fresco Chapel was opened in February 1997. Intimate in scale (4,000 square feet), the Chapel is the repository in the United States for the only intact Byzantine frescoes in the entire western hemisphere. These masterworks from the 13th century -- a dome and an apse -- were ripped and stolen out of a chapel near Lysi in the Turkish occupied section of Cyprus in the 1980's, cut into pieces, and smuggled off the island by thieves prepared to sell them piece by...
    01/01/06- Ongoing	Dan Flavin Installation Menil Collection - Richmond Hall Dan Flavin Installation Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection - Richmond Hall January 1, 2006 - Ongoing Avg. Event Rating (5.0 Stars): Since November 1998, Richmond Hall has housed the penultimate work by the Minimalist sculptor Dan Flavin (1933–96), one of the most innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. Except for an installation in Bridgehampton, New York (created in 1985 by the Dia Art Foundation), Flavin’s work at Richmond Hall is the artist’s only permanent installation in the United States. Born in New York City, Flavin was virtually self taught as a visual artist....
    01/01/06- Ongoing	Visit the Menil Collection Menil Collection - Richmond Hall Visit the Menil Collection Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection - Richmond Hall January 1, 2006 - Ongoing Permanent Collection

  • Upcoming Events

    02/05/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Curtis Gannon on Jasper Johns Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Curtis Gannon on Jasper Johns Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection February 5, 2012 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month (except talks held on the second Sunday of April and July, due to the Easter and Independence Day holidays), a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor...
    02/12/12	Chant •Sonata •Duet: Music for The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Menil Collection Chant •Sonata •Duet: Music for The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Presented by Menil Collection and Byzantine Fresco Chapel at Menil Collection February 12, 2012 The Menil Collection presents Chant •Sonata •Duet: Music for The Byzantine Fresco Chapel, Sunday, February 12, 2012. 5:30 p.m. Prelude (Optional). Walk from the Menil Collection to the Byzantine Fresco Chapel 6:00 p.m. Musical performance inside the Byzantine Fresco Chapel. Featuring St. Paul's Methodist Choir, Mark Edenfield, director, and from Da Camera: Craig Hauschildt, marimba; Eva Lymenstull,...
    02/19/12	Constructions of Art & Faith: The Byzantine Fresco Chapel and the Menil Collection Menil Collection Constructions of Art & Faith: The Byzantine Fresco Chapel and the Menil Collection Presented by Menil Collection and Byzantine Fresco Chapel at Menil Collection February 19, 2012 The Menil Collection presents Constructions of Art & Faith: The Byzantine Fresco Chapel and the Menil Collection. Sunday, February 19, 2012, 7:00 p.m.  A discussion moderated by Menil director Josef Helfenstein. At the heart of the Menil Collection’s mission is the belief that faith and art are powerful forces in contemporary society and central to a shared human experience. The closing of the Byzantine Fresco Chapel provides an...
    03/01/12- 06/10/12	Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective Menil Collection Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 1-June 10, 2012 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective.  On view March 2, 2012 – June 10, 2012. The first-ever retrospective of the artist’s drawings, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, will be the first major one-person exhibition organized by the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center.  Preceding the exhibition opening, Richard Serra and...
    03/04/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Bert Samples on a Bedu Mask from Côte d'Ivoire Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Bert Samples on a Bedu Mask from Côte d'Ivoire Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 4, 2012 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month (except talks held on the second Sunday of April and July, due to the Easter and Independence Day holidays), a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor...
    03/06/12	Conservation Panel Discussion: Conserving the Work of John Chamberlain Menil Collection Conservation Panel Discussion: Conserving the Work of John Chamberlain Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 6, 2012 The Menil Collection presents a Conservation Panel Discussion: Conserving the Work of John Chamberlain, with Brad Epley, Chief Conservator; Shelley Smith, Objects Conservator; and Austin-based Conservator Catherine Williams, Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 7:00 p.m. This conservation-based program looks at artist John Chamberlain whose Recent Sculpture 1970s & 1980s was one of Menil’s 1987 inaugural...
    03/10/12	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Celebrating Debussy Menil Collection STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Celebrating Debussy Presented by Da Camera of Houston and Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 10, 2012 Da Camera of Houston and The Menil Collection present another STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert.  This concert series on The Menil Collection campus has quickly  become a popular family event. Combine a visit to the museum (where admission is always free) with an interactive and informative concert. The Da Camera Young Artists join Da Camera’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of French composer Claude Debussy. The Young Artists...
    03/13/12	After Debussy (Part II of a Two-Concert Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Claude Debussy's Birth) Menil Collection After Debussy (Part II of a Two-Concert Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Claude Debussy's Birth) Presented by Da Camera of Houston and Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 13, 2012 Da Camera of Houston presents After Debussy,  Part II of a Two-Concert Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Claude Debussy's Birth, Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 7:30 PM, at The Menil Collection. Part of the Da Camera at The Menil Series. In 1915, Debussy outlined a plan to compose six sonatas for various combinations of instruments, but completed only three of the planned works, all masterpieces....
    03/23/12	Cinematic Graphite Menil Collection Cinematic Graphite Presented by Aurora Picture Show and Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 23, 2012 Aurora Picture Show presents Cinematic Graphite. Co-presented with the Menil Collection. Friday, March 23, at 8PM. Location: Menil Collection Lawn, 1515 Sul Ross. Free Admission. In collaboration with the Menil Collection exhibit, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective and its curator Michelle White, Aurora Picture Show presents an outdoor...
    03/24/12	Musical Performances - Sources and Echoes: A Decade of Musical Improvisation in Houston (Nameless Sound at The Menil) Menil Collection Musical Performances - Sources and Echoes: A Decade of Musical Improvisation in Houston (Nameless Sound at The Menil) Presented by Menil Collection and Nameless Sound at Menil Collection March 24, 2012 Nameless Sound and the Menil Collection present Musical Performances - Sources and Echoes: A Decade of Musical Improvisation in Houston, Saturday, March 24, 2012. Nameless Sound presents international music in Houston that, like its music education program, emphasizes improvisation. To mark the organization’s first decade, Sources and Echoes brings alumni musicians from Houston and beyond to Richmond Hall for short back-to-back solo...
    03/26/12	Menil/MFAH Film Screening: Los Niños Abandonados Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium Menil/MFAH Film Screening: Los Niños Abandonados Presented by Menil Collection and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium March 26, 2012 The Menil Collection presents a Film Screening: Los Niños Abandonados, (1975). A film by Danny Lyon (running time: 63 minutes) Brown Auditorium, MFAH, 1001 Bissonnet. Monday, March 26, 2012, 6:30 p.m. Co-presented with MFAH Films. In conjunction with the Menil exhibition This World is Not My Home: Danny...
    03/30/12- 07/29/12	This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs Menil Collection This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 30-July 29, 2012 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs. On view March 30 - July 29, 2012. This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs, an exhibition of approximately 45 photographs and photographic montages, traces the evolution of the New York and New Mexico-based artist’s career from 1962 to the present. A leading and explosively creative figure in the American street photography movement of the...
    04/01/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Ebony Porter on the Menil Collection Campus Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Ebony Porter on the Menil Collection Campus Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 1, 2012 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month, a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor space) of the artist’s choosing, begin at 3 p.m. Ebony Porter on the Menil...
    04/03/12	Menil-Morgan Lecture with Barbara Rose: The Impact of Medieval Illumination on Modern Drawing Menil Collection Menil-Morgan Lecture with Barbara Rose: The Impact of Medieval Illumination on Modern Drawing Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 3, 2012 The Menil Collection presents the Menil-Morgan Lecture with Barbara Rose: The Impact of Medieval Illumination on Modern Drawing, Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Independent scholar and curator Barbara Rose is the first Morgan-Menil Fellow at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The subject of her talk is the medieval Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana (c. 730 – c. 800) and the influence of his Romanesque illuminated manuscripts of the...
    04/09/12	Poetry Reading: Ghassan Zaqtan - Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me Menil Collection Poetry Reading: Ghassan Zaqtan - Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 9, 2012 The Menil Collection presents a Poetry Reading: Ghassan Zaqtan - Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Monday, April 9, 2012, 7:00 p.m. Ghassan Zaqtan, (pictured) perhaps the most important and original Palestinian poet writing today, comes to the Menil Collection during National Poetry Month for his first Texas appearance. Zaqtan will read from his tenth book, Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, which gathers new and selected poems...
    04/11/12	Menil Collection Panel Discussion Menil Collection Menil Collection Panel Discussion Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 11, 2012 The Menil Collection presents a Panel Discussion, Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at 7:30 p.m.  In conjunction with the exhibition Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective,  on view March 2, 2012 – June 10, 2012. Michelle White is joined by scholars Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in...
    04/17/12	Menil Illustrated Lecture: Amanda Douberley - The Obelisk, the Astronaut, and the Mouse: Defining Public Sculpture for Houston Menil Collection Menil Illustrated Lecture: Amanda Douberley - The Obelisk, the Astronaut, and the Mouse: Defining Public Sculpture for Houston Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 17, 2012 The Menil Collection presents an Illustrated Lecture: Amanda Douberley - The Obelisk, the Astronaut, and the Mouse: Defining Public Sculpture for Houston, Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 8:00 p.m. Amanda Douberley is the 2011–12 Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellow at the Menil Collection and a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation The Corporate Model: Sculpture, Architecture, and the American City,...
    05/06/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Allison Hunter on Richard Serra Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Allison Hunter on Richard Serra Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection May 6, 2012 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month, a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor space) of the artist’s choosing, begin at 3 p.m. Allison Hunter on Richard Serra
    06/03/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Beth Secor on Danny Lyon Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Beth Secor on Danny Lyon Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection June 3, 2012 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month, a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor space) of the artist’s choosing, begin at 3 p.m. Beth Secor on Danny Lyon
    07/27/12- 10/21/12	Silence Menil Collection Silence Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection July 27-October 21, 2012 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Silence. On view July 27, 2012 - October 21, 2012. Silence is a powerful force. It can produce profound emotions or conjure startling sensory experiences, and it seems inextricably linked to the passage of time. A prerequisite for contemplative thought, silence has become a scarce commodity in today’s media-saturated world. The exhibition and catalogue project Silence considers this important and...

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  Upcoming Events

  • Current Events

    10/21/11- 03/18/12	Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection Menil Collection Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection October 21, 2011-March 18, 2012 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection. On view October 21, 2011 – March 18, 2012.  The Menil’s collection of Byzantine icons is widely regarded by scholars in the field as one of the most important of its kind in the United States. The group of more than sixty works, many of which were acquired by Dominique de Menil in 1985 from the noted collector Eric Bradley,...
    01/01/07- 03/04/12	Visit the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Byzantine Fresco Chapel Visit the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Presented by Menil Collection at Byzantine Fresco Chapel January 1, 2007-March 4, 2012 The Byzantine Fresco Chapel was opened in February 1997. Intimate in scale (4,000 square feet), the Chapel is the repository in the United States for the only intact Byzantine frescoes in the entire western hemisphere. These masterworks from the 13th century -- a dome and an apse -- were ripped and stolen out of a chapel near Lysi in the Turkish occupied section of Cyprus in the 1980's, cut into pieces, and smuggled off the island by thieves prepared to sell them piece by...
    01/01/06- Ongoing	Dan Flavin Installation Menil Collection - Richmond Hall Dan Flavin Installation Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection - Richmond Hall January 1, 2006 - Ongoing Avg. Event Rating (5.0 Stars): Since November 1998, Richmond Hall has housed the penultimate work by the Minimalist sculptor Dan Flavin (1933–96), one of the most innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. Except for an installation in Bridgehampton, New York (created in 1985 by the Dia Art Foundation), Flavin’s work at Richmond Hall is the artist’s only permanent installation in the United States. Born in New York City, Flavin was virtually self taught as a visual artist....
    01/01/06- Ongoing	Visit the Menil Collection Menil Collection - Richmond Hall Visit the Menil Collection Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection - Richmond Hall January 1, 2006 - Ongoing Permanent Collection

  • Upcoming Events

    02/05/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Curtis Gannon on Jasper Johns Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Curtis Gannon on Jasper Johns Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection February 5, 2012 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month (except talks held on the second Sunday of April and July, due to the Easter and Independence Day holidays), a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor...
    02/12/12	Chant •Sonata •Duet: Music for The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Menil Collection Chant •Sonata •Duet: Music for The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Presented by Menil Collection and Byzantine Fresco Chapel at Menil Collection February 12, 2012 The Menil Collection presents Chant •Sonata •Duet: Music for The Byzantine Fresco Chapel, Sunday, February 12, 2012. 5:30 p.m. Prelude (Optional). Walk from the Menil Collection to the Byzantine Fresco Chapel 6:00 p.m. Musical performance inside the Byzantine Fresco Chapel. Featuring St. Paul's Methodist Choir, Mark Edenfield, director, and from Da Camera: Craig Hauschildt, marimba; Eva Lymenstull,...
    02/19/12	Constructions of Art & Faith: The Byzantine Fresco Chapel and the Menil Collection Menil Collection Constructions of Art & Faith: The Byzantine Fresco Chapel and the Menil Collection Presented by Menil Collection and Byzantine Fresco Chapel at Menil Collection February 19, 2012 The Menil Collection presents Constructions of Art & Faith: The Byzantine Fresco Chapel and the Menil Collection. Sunday, February 19, 2012, 7:00 p.m.  A discussion moderated by Menil director Josef Helfenstein. At the heart of the Menil Collection’s mission is the belief that faith and art are powerful forces in contemporary society and central to a shared human experience. The closing of the Byzantine Fresco Chapel provides an...
    03/01/12- 06/10/12	Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective Menil Collection Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 1-June 10, 2012 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective.  On view March 2, 2012 – June 10, 2012. The first-ever retrospective of the artist’s drawings, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, will be the first major one-person exhibition organized by the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center.  Preceding the exhibition opening, Richard Serra and...
    03/04/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Bert Samples on a Bedu Mask from Côte d'Ivoire Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Bert Samples on a Bedu Mask from Côte d'Ivoire Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 4, 2012 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month (except talks held on the second Sunday of April and July, due to the Easter and Independence Day holidays), a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor...
    03/06/12	Conservation Panel Discussion: Conserving the Work of John Chamberlain Menil Collection Conservation Panel Discussion: Conserving the Work of John Chamberlain Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 6, 2012 The Menil Collection presents a Conservation Panel Discussion: Conserving the Work of John Chamberlain, with Brad Epley, Chief Conservator; Shelley Smith, Objects Conservator; and Austin-based Conservator Catherine Williams, Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 7:00 p.m. This conservation-based program looks at artist John Chamberlain whose Recent Sculpture 1970s & 1980s was one of Menil’s 1987 inaugural...
    03/10/12	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Celebrating Debussy Menil Collection STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Celebrating Debussy Presented by Da Camera of Houston and Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 10, 2012 Da Camera of Houston and The Menil Collection present another STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert.  This concert series on The Menil Collection campus has quickly  become a popular family event. Combine a visit to the museum (where admission is always free) with an interactive and informative concert. The Da Camera Young Artists join Da Camera’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of French composer Claude Debussy. The Young Artists...
    03/13/12	After Debussy (Part II of a Two-Concert Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Claude Debussy's Birth) Menil Collection After Debussy (Part II of a Two-Concert Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Claude Debussy's Birth) Presented by Da Camera of Houston and Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 13, 2012 Da Camera of Houston presents After Debussy,  Part II of a Two-Concert Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Claude Debussy's Birth, Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 7:30 PM, at The Menil Collection. Part of the Da Camera at The Menil Series. In 1915, Debussy outlined a plan to compose six sonatas for various combinations of instruments, but completed only three of the planned works, all masterpieces....
    03/23/12	Cinematic Graphite Menil Collection Cinematic Graphite Presented by Aurora Picture Show and Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 23, 2012 Aurora Picture Show presents Cinematic Graphite. Co-presented with the Menil Collection. Friday, March 23, at 8PM. Location: Menil Collection Lawn, 1515 Sul Ross. Free Admission. In collaboration with the Menil Collection exhibit, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective and its curator Michelle White, Aurora Picture Show presents an outdoor...
    03/24/12	Musical Performances - Sources and Echoes: A Decade of Musical Improvisation in Houston (Nameless Sound at The Menil) Menil Collection Musical Performances - Sources and Echoes: A Decade of Musical Improvisation in Houston (Nameless Sound at The Menil) Presented by Menil Collection and Nameless Sound at Menil Collection March 24, 2012 Nameless Sound and the Menil Collection present Musical Performances - Sources and Echoes: A Decade of Musical Improvisation in Houston, Saturday, March 24, 2012. Nameless Sound presents international music in Houston that, like its music education program, emphasizes improvisation. To mark the organization’s first decade, Sources and Echoes brings alumni musicians from Houston and beyond to Richmond Hall for short back-to-back solo...
    03/26/12	Menil/MFAH Film Screening: Los Niños Abandonados Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium Menil/MFAH Film Screening: Los Niños Abandonados Presented by Menil Collection and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium March 26, 2012 The Menil Collection presents a Film Screening: Los Niños Abandonados, (1975). A film by Danny Lyon (running time: 63 minutes) Brown Auditorium, MFAH, 1001 Bissonnet. Monday, March 26, 2012, 6:30 p.m. Co-presented with MFAH Films. In conjunction with the Menil exhibition This World is Not My Home: Danny...
    03/30/12- 07/29/12	This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs Menil Collection This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 30-July 29, 2012 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs. On view March 30 - July 29, 2012. This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs, an exhibition of approximately 45 photographs and photographic montages, traces the evolution of the New York and New Mexico-based artist’s career from 1962 to the present. A leading and explosively creative figure in the American street photography movement of the...
    04/01/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Ebony Porter on the Menil Collection Campus Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Ebony Porter on the Menil Collection Campus Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 1, 2012 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month, a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor space) of the artist’s choosing, begin at 3 p.m. Ebony Porter on the Menil...
    04/03/12	Menil-Morgan Lecture with Barbara Rose: The Impact of Medieval Illumination on Modern Drawing Menil Collection Menil-Morgan Lecture with Barbara Rose: The Impact of Medieval Illumination on Modern Drawing Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 3, 2012 The Menil Collection presents the Menil-Morgan Lecture with Barbara Rose: The Impact of Medieval Illumination on Modern Drawing, Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Independent scholar and curator Barbara Rose is the first Morgan-Menil Fellow at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The subject of her talk is the medieval Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana (c. 730 – c. 800) and the influence of his Romanesque illuminated manuscripts of the...
    04/09/12	Poetry Reading: Ghassan Zaqtan - Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me Menil Collection Poetry Reading: Ghassan Zaqtan - Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 9, 2012 The Menil Collection presents a Poetry Reading: Ghassan Zaqtan - Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Monday, April 9, 2012, 7:00 p.m. Ghassan Zaqtan, (pictured) perhaps the most important and original Palestinian poet writing today, comes to the Menil Collection during National Poetry Month for his first Texas appearance. Zaqtan will read from his tenth book, Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, which gathers new and selected poems...
    04/11/12	Menil Collection Panel Discussion Menil Collection Menil Collection Panel Discussion Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 11, 2012 The Menil Collection presents a Panel Discussion, Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at 7:30 p.m.  In conjunction with the exhibition Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective,  on view March 2, 2012 – June 10, 2012. Michelle White is joined by scholars Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in...
    04/17/12	Menil Illustrated Lecture: Amanda Douberley - The Obelisk, the Astronaut, and the Mouse: Defining Public Sculpture for Houston Menil Collection Menil Illustrated Lecture: Amanda Douberley - The Obelisk, the Astronaut, and the Mouse: Defining Public Sculpture for Houston Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 17, 2012 The Menil Collection presents an Illustrated Lecture: Amanda Douberley - The Obelisk, the Astronaut, and the Mouse: Defining Public Sculpture for Houston, Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 8:00 p.m. Amanda Douberley is the 2011–12 Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellow at the Menil Collection and a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation The Corporate Model: Sculpture, Architecture, and the American City,...
    05/06/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Allison Hunter on Richard Serra Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Allison Hunter on Richard Serra Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection May 6, 2012 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month, a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor space) of the artist’s choosing, begin at 3 p.m. Allison Hunter on Richard Serra
    06/03/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Beth Secor on Danny Lyon Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Beth Secor on Danny Lyon Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection June 3, 2012 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month, a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor space) of the artist’s choosing, begin at 3 p.m. Beth Secor on Danny Lyon
    07/27/12- 10/21/12	Silence Menil Collection Silence Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection July 27-October 21, 2012 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Silence. On view July 27, 2012 - October 21, 2012. Silence is a powerful force. It can produce profound emotions or conjure startling sensory experiences, and it seems inextricably linked to the passage of time. A prerequisite for contemplative thought, silence has become a scarce commodity in today’s media-saturated world. The exhibition and catalogue project Silence considers this important and...

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  Events

  • Past Events

    01/31/12	Gyorgy Kurtag: A Composed Program Menil Collection
    01/28/12	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: A Musical Safari Menil Collection
    01/12/12	Menil/Rice Illustrated Lecture: Terry Castle - Inside or Outside? Collecting Outsider Art Menil Collection
    01/08/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Carl Suddath Menil Collection
    12/17/11	Nameless Sound and Menil Collection present Jandek UPDATED Menil Collection
    12/06/11	Fragments: Connecting Past and Present Menil Collection
    12/04/11	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Myke Venable on Walter De Maria: Trilogies Menil Collection
    11/19/11	Tree Dedication: The Art Guys Marry A Tree Menil Collection
    11/18/11	Menil Public Lecture: Lawrence Weschler 'On Convergences' Menil Collection
    11/14/11	Menil Public Lecture: Thomas E. Crow - Mark Rothko's Actors: Shape and Edge in the Evolution of His Art Menil Collection
    11/12/11	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Bach in the 21st Century Menil Collection
    11/08/11	Simone Dinnerstein, piano CANCELLED Menil Collection
    11/08/11	Violinist Jennifer Koh Menil Collection
    11/06/11	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Y.E. Torres on Jasper Johns Menil Collection
    11/03/11	Menil Collection & Byzantine Fresco Chapel - Roundtable Discussion: Cultural Heritage 2.0: Participatory Stewardship Menil Collection
    10/24/11	Menil Lecture & Booksigning: Some of My Lives - An Evening with Rosamond Bernier Menil Collection
    10/21/11	Menil Panel Discussion: Byzantine and Russian Icos at The Menil Collection Menil Collection
    10/14/11	Menil Panel Discussion: The Permanent Installations of Walter De Maria - Clare Elliott, Brad Epley, & Josef Helfenstein Menil Collection
    10/02/11	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Howard Sherman on John Chamberlain Menil Collection
    10/01/11	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Latin Jazz Fusion - A Tribute to Cal Tjader and Poncho Sanchez Menil Collection
    09/27/11	Menil Panel Discussion: Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the Collection Menil Collection
    09/23/11- 01/15/12	Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the Collection Menil Collection
    09/16/11- 01/08/12	Walter De Maria: Trilogies Menil Collection
    09/11/11	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Erin Joyce on René Magritte Menil Collection
    08/07/11	Gallery Talk The Artist’s Eye - Joan Son on the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Menil Collection
    07/21/11	The Whole World Was Watching Film and Television Series: Film Program III Glassell School of Art
    07/19/11	The Whole World Was Watching Film and Television Series: Film Program II Glassell School of Art
    07/17/11	In Tribute to Edmund Carpenter: A Reading of Eskimo Realities Menil Collection
    07/14/11	The Whole World Was Watching Film and Television Series: Film Program I Glassell School of Art
    07/12/11	The Whole World Was Watching Film and Television Series: Lecture with curator Gerald O'Grady Glassell School of Art
    07/10/11	Gallery Talk The Artist’s Eye - Vachu Chilakamarri on Franz Kline Menil Collection
    06/05/11	Gallery Talk The Artist’s Eye on James Rosenquist with Kevin Peterson Menil Collection
    05/25/11	Illustrated Lecture - Dinka: Legendary Cattle Keepers of Sudan, An Evening with Photographers Angela Fisher & Carol Beckwith Menil Collection
    05/06/11- 08/28/11	Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea Menil Collection
    04/15/11- 07/17/11	Upside Down: Arctic Realities Menil Collection
    04/03/11	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Karen Lastre on Mark Rothko Menil Collection
    04/02/11	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Family Drum Circle and Jazz Concert with Sam Dinkins III Menil Collection
    04/02/11	Third Annual Menil Community Arts Festival Menil Collection
    03/26/11	Menil Tour de Hood Bike Tour Menil Collection
    03/18/11	Menil Panel Discussion and Booksigning: Historians Celebrate the Image of the Black's Fifty Years of Using Art to Counter Racism Menil Collection
    03/14/11	Rice/Menil Biennial Lecture Series: Kara Walker Speaks About Her Art Menil Collection
    03/10/11	Menil Lecture – Adrienne Kaeppler: The Voyages of Captain Cook and the Art of the Pacific Menil Collection
    03/08/11	Rice/Menil Biennial Lecture Series: The Really Funny Thing About Tragedy Rice University - Humanities Bldg.
    03/06/11	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Mark Schlesinger on Barnett Newman Menil Collection
    03/05/11- 09/25/11	The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs from Adelaide de Menil and Edmund Carpenter (at The Menil Collection) Menil Collection
    03/04/11	Outdoor Film: Warhol on TV + Menil by Moonlight Menil Collection
    02/18/11	Conversation – 'Tony Smith: Drawings' with Bernice Rose, Eileen Costello, and Chelsea Beck Menil Collection
    02/12/11	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Da Camera Young Artists Menil Collection
    02/06/11	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud on Robert Ryman Menil Collection
    01/27/11	Menil Illustrated Talk: Philip Freelon - 'The Redesign of Emancipation Park' Menil Collection
    01/25/11	Conversation - Art and Conservation: Artists Documentation Program (ADP) Brad Epley, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, and Heather Nodler Menil Collection
    01/09/11	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Jonathan C. Leach on Kurt Schwitters Menil Collection
    12/17/10- 04/03/11	Tony Smith: Drawings Menil Collection
    12/06/10	Rice/Menil Biennial Lecture Series: Comic Modernism Menil Collection
    12/01/10	History of the Slave Trade and Visual Culture in Cameroon and Nigeria, Kairn A. Klieman and Kristina Van Dyke Menil Collection
    11/20/10	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Encounter Music and Art: Da Camera Young Artists Menil Collection
    11/19/10- 02/20/11	Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1968 Menil Collection
    11/19/10	Menil Gallery Talk: A conversation with Vija Celmins, Franklin Sirmans, and Michelle White Menil Collection
    11/03/10	Menil/Aurora Publication Party and Booksigning: Art & Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil Menil Collection
    10/22/10- 01/30/11	Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage Menil Collection
    10/22/10	Menil Gallery Talk: A Conversation with Isabel Schulz and Josef Helfenstein Menil Collection
    10/19/10	Rice/Menil Biennial Lecture Series: The Places of Humor in Roman Visual Culture: Context and Theories Rice University - Humanities Bldg.
    10/18/10	UST Rev. William J. Young Lecture: A Postracial America?: The Church’s Contribution to Racial Justice in the 21st Century University of St. Thomas - Jerabeck Athletic Center
    10/16/10	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Vivaldi in the Twombly Menil Collection
    10/12/10	Menil Illustrated Conversation: 'Objects of Devotion' with Kristina Van Dyke and Linda Neagley Menil Collection
    10/02/10	UST and Menil Symposium: Henri Rousseau: Paint + Process University of St. Thomas - Jones Hall
    09/20/10	Menil Gallery Talk: Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions Menil Collection
    09/05/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Howard Sherman on Cy Twombly Gallery Menil Collection
    08/27/10- 11/28/10	Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions Menil Collection
    08/13/10- 10/31/10	Objects of Devotion Menil Collection
    06/15/10	One Was Nude and One Wore Tails (One-Night-Only Public Performance) Menil Collection
    06/10/10	Reading and Book Signing: Annie Cohen-Solal Menil Collection
    06/06/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Nathaniel Donnett on Robert Rauschenberg Menil Collection
    05/20/10	The Menil Hosts a Reading with WITS and Glass Mountain Menil Collection
    05/10/10	Contemporary Art and Shifting Curatorial Practices: Lecture by curator Bisi Silva Menil Collection
    05/02/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Julie Ann Nagle on topic to be announced Menil Collection
    04/23/10	Film Screening: Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies Menil Collection
    04/11/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Jillian Conrad on René Magritte Menil Collection
    04/02/10- 07/25/10	Steve Wolfe on Paper Menil Collection
    04/01/10	Panel Discussion: Steve Wolfe, Franklin Sirmans, and Carter Foster Menil Collection
    03/20/10	FotoFest Gallery Talk: Michelle White, Harry Shunk's Leap in the the Void Menil Collection
    03/19/10- 08/08/10	Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Réalist Performance Menil Collection
    03/13/10	Menil Community Arts Festival Menil Collection
    03/10/10	Poetry Reading: Rita Dove Menil Collection
    03/07/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Michael Bise on topic to be announced Menil Collection
    02/15/10	2010 Vivian L. Smith Lecture: Glenn Peers "Gold and Face: Living Members of the Menil’s Byzantium, Menil Collection
    02/12/10- 08/15/10	Maurizio Cattelan Menil Collection
    02/07/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Amber Eagle on the exhibition Body in Fragments Menil Collection
    02/05/10	Conversation: Josef Helfenstein and Franklin Sirmans - Twentieth-Century Art at the Menil Collection Menil Collection
    01/14/10	Conversation: Mark Morris Menil Collection
    12/08/09	Lecture and Reading: Josef Helfenstein and Edward Snow Cy Twombly/Painting Poems Menil Collection
    12/06/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: James Sham on Dada and Surrealism Menil Collection
    11/12/09	Two Gallery Talks: Maria Ines Sicardi, Combined Menil and MFAH Exhibition Tours Various locations around Houston
    10/30/09- 02/14/10	Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil Menil Collection
    09/24/09- 01/03/10	Joaquín Torres-García: Wood Constructions Menil Collection
    09/06/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: John Runnels Menil Collection
    08/21/09- 02/08/10	Body in Fragments Menil Collection
    08/07/09	In Memory of Merce Cunningham & Robert Rauschenberg Menil Collection
    06/07/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Libbie Masterson Menil Collection
    05/12/09	Panel Discussion: Contemporary Conversations, John Chamberlain's American Tableau Menil Collection
    05/10/09	Conversation: Claes Oldenburg and Bernice Rose Menil Collection
    05/09/09- 10/11/09	Drawings on Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Menil Collection
    05/03/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Christopher Sperandio Menil Collection
    04/28/09	Public Lecture: Brad Epley - Conservation at the Menil: Preserving a Collection Menil Collection
    04/25/09	The Menil Arts Community Open House Menil Collection
    04/21/09	From the Collection: Egyptian Art in the Menil Collection, a Conversation: Deborah Vischak Menil Collection
    04/14/09	Menil/Rice Lecture Series: Barbara Maria Stafford: The Slow Conscious Look Toward a Pedagogy of Attentiveness Rice University - Herring Hall
    04/13/09	Public Reading: Bodies of Paint, Bodies of Text: A Poetic Response to Marlene Dumas Menil Collection
    04/05/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Cory Wagner Menil Collection
    03/30/09	Reading and Booksigning: Andrei Codrescu, The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess Menil Collection
    03/27/09- 06/21/09	Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave Menil Collection
    03/19/09- 08/02/09	Contemporary Conversations: John Chamberlain, American Tableau Menil Collection
    03/13/09	Public Lecture: The Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement Menil Collection
    03/10/09	Menil/Rice Lecture Series: Richard Tuttle: Positive Art and Positive Healing Menil Collection
    03/01/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Page Kempner Lummis Menil Collection
    02/06/09- 04/26/09	Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection Menil Collection
    01/13/09	Illustrated Conversation: William Camfield and Josef Helfenstein Menil Collection
    01/04/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Andrea Grover Menil Collection
    10/31/08- 02/15/09	Max Ernst: In the Garden of Nymph Ancolie Menil Collection
    09/26/08- 01/04/09	Art and Power in the Central African Savanna Menil Collection
    08/15/08- 03/01/09	Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection Menil Collection

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    • Event Name: Dan Flavin Installation
      "FANTASTIC"
      Review posted by: marcie from Florida, Aug 13, 2010
      

      This is a wonderful frieze. It can make you feel just great!

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      This is a wonderful frieze. It can make you feel just great!

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