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Menil Collection

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

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    08/27/10- 11/28/10	Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions Menil Collection Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection August 27-November 28, 2010 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions, on view August 27–November 28, 2010. "Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions" celebrates the ongoing addition of important works of art to the Menil Collection by gift, purchase, and bequest. While some of these works have been included in exhibitions over the past several years, may have only rarely been shown, and a number remain unknown to museum...
    08/13/10- 10/31/10	Objects of Devotion Menil Collection Objects of Devotion Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection August 13-October 31, 2010 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Objects of Devotion, on view August 13–October 31, 2010. Drawing on various aspects of the Menil's permanent collection, "Objects of Devotion" explores the ways in which art supported religious practice in different times and places. Objects ranging from small-scale works of personal nature, such as Byzantine pilgrim ampulae, to a Maya vessel used in ninth century chocolate drinking rituals, to...
    01/01/07- Ongoing	Visit the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum Visit the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum Presented by Menil Collection at Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum January 1, 2007 - Ongoing The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum was opened in February 1997. Intimate in scale (4,000 square feet), the Chapel Museum 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...
    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

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    09/05/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Howard Sherman on Cy Twombly Gallery Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Howard Sherman on Cy Twombly Gallery Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection September 5, 2010 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...
    09/20/10	Menil Gallery Talk: Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions Menil Collection Menil Gallery Talk: Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection September 20, 2010 The Menil Collection presents a Gallery Talk:  Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions, Monday, September 20, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. Earth • Paint • Paper • Wood presents the sculptures, paintings, and works on paper that have entered the museum collection recently by gift, purchase, or bequest. In this fast-paced program, Menil curators and conservators will introduce you to acquisitions that they particularly...
    10/02/10	UST and Menil Symposium: Henri Rousseau: Paint + Process University of St. Thomas - Jones Hall UST and Menil Symposium: Henri Rousseau: Paint + Process Presented by University of St. Thomas and Menil Collection at University of St. Thomas - Jones Hall October 2, 2010 The University of St. Thomas and the Menil Collection present the symposium Henri Rousseau: Paint + Process, Saturday, October 2, 2010, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Over the years many have attempted to answer the question posed by Elisabeth Luther Cary, “What is Henri Rousseau?” Some have called the artist a grandfather of Surrealism, others a precursor of Cubism, while still others have positioned him as the leader of a school of “modern...
    10/12/10	Menil Illustrated Conversation: 'Objects of Devotion' with Kristina Van Dyke and Linda Neagley Menil Collection Menil Illustrated Conversation: 'Objects of Devotion' with Kristina Van Dyke and Linda Neagley Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection October 12, 2010 The Menil Collection presents an Illustrated Conversation:  "Objects of Devotion" with Kristina Van Dyke and Linda Neagley, Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 7:30. A ninth century Maya chocolate-drinking vessel and a thirteenth-century Japanese Shinto shrine figure are among the works in the exhibit Objects of Devotion, on view August 12...
    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 UST Rev. William J. Young Lecture: A Postracial America?: The Church’s Contribution to Racial Justice in the 21st Century Presented by University of St. Thomas and Menil Collection at University of St. Thomas - Jerabeck Athletic Center October 18, 2010 The University of St. Thomas presents A Postracial America?: The Church’s Contribution to Racial Justice in the 21st Century. This year’s Rev. William J. Young Lecture will be given by Rev. Bryan Massingale, STD, (pictured) professor of theology at the Marquette University. The lecture will take place Monday, October 18th at 7pm in the Scanlan Room of the Jerabeck Center. Rev. Massingale is an...
    10/22/10	Menil Gallery Talk: A Conversation with Isabel Schulz and Josef Helfenstein Menil Collection Menil Gallery Talk: A Conversation with Isabel Schulz and Josef Helfenstein Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection October 22, 2010 The Menil Collection presents a Gallery Talk: A Conversation with Isabel Schulz and Josef Helfenstein, Friday, October 22, 2010, 7:00pm.  In conjunction with the exhibition Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, on view October 22, 2010 through January 30, 2011. Isabel Schulz, executive director of the Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Collection, is...
    10/22/10- 01/30/11	Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage Menil Collection Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection October 22, 2010-January 30, 2011 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage. On view October 22, 2010– January 30, 2011.  Guest curated by Isabel Schulz, co-editor of the Kurt Schwitters catalogue raisonné and curator of the Kurt Schwitters Archive at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, in collaboration with Menil Director Josef Helfenstein, Color and Collage will present key works from American and European museums and private collections. The...
    11/03/10	Menil Publication party and Booksigning: Art & Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil Menil Collection Menil Publication party and Booksigning: Art & Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection November 3, 2010 The Menil Collection presents a Publication party and Booksigning for the new book Art & Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil.  Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. The 22 essays gathered here show that when the de Menils were building their collection of art, they were also making significant contributions to architecture and film, to education, and to civil and human rights on a local and...
    11/19/10	Menil Gallery Talk: A conversation with Vija Celmins, Franklin Sirmans, and Michelle White Menil Collection Menil Gallery Talk: A conversation with Vija Celmins, Franklin Sirmans, and Michelle White Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection November 19, 2010 The Menil Collection presents a Gallery Talk:  A conversation with artist Vija Celmins, exhibition curator Franklin Sirmans, and Associate Curator Michelle White, Friday, November 19, 2010, 7:00 p.m. In conjunction with the exhibition Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1968, on view November 19, 2010 through February 20,...
    11/19/10- 02/20/11	Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1968 Menil Collection Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1968 Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection November 19, 2010-February 20, 2011 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1968. On view November 19, 2010 – February 20, 2011.  Painter Vija Celmins, born in 1938 in Riga, Latvia, has lived and worked primarily in New York since 1981. She immigrated to the United States at the age of ten with her family, settling in Indiana. After attending the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, Celmins completed her MFA at the UCLA in...
    12/01/10	History of the Slave Trade and Visual Culture in Cameroon and Nigeria, Kairn A. Klieman and Kristina Van Dyke Menil Collection History of the Slave Trade and Visual Culture in Cameroon and Nigeria, Kairn A. Klieman and Kristina Van Dyke Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection December 1, 2010 The Menil Collection presents History of the Slave Trade and Visual Culture in Cameroon and Nigeria, Kairn A. Klieman and Kristina Van Dyke, Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 7:00 p.m. This program concludes the collaborative Menil/UH Art History class designed to gauge the effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade in the visual culture of Nigeria and Cameroon, among them: masks, sculptures, religious rituals, architecture. Kristina Van Dyke is Curator for...
    12/17/10- 04/03/11	Tony Smith : Drawings Menil Collection Tony Smith : Drawings Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection December 17, 2010-April 3, 2011 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Tony Smith : Drawings. On view December 17, 2010 – April 3, 2011.  “Tony Smith: Drawings” is a selection of rarely exhibited and early drawings by American artist Tony Smith (1912-1980). The work, executed within a limited time-period in the 1950’s, precedes Smith's emergence as one of the most important sculptors of the mid-twentieth-century, following his career as an architectural designer....

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    06/15/10	One Was Nude and One Wore Tails (One-Night-Only Public Performance) Menil Collection One Was Nude and One Wore Tails (One-Night-Only Public Performance) Presented by Menil Collection and Main Street Theater at Menil Collection June 15, 2010 The Menil Collection and Main Street Theater present a One-Night-Only Public Performance of Dario Fo’s One Was Nude and One Wore Tails.  The play will be performed in Menil galleries, against a backdrop of the current Menil exhibition, Maurizio Cattelan. The one-act performance will be followed by an audience discussion with...
    06/10/10	Reading and Book Signing: Annie Cohen-Solal Menil Collection Reading and Book Signing: Annie Cohen-Solal Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection June 10, 2010 The Menil Collection presents a Reading and Book Signing, featuring Annie Cohen-Solal reading from Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli, Thursday, June 10, 2010, 8:00 p.m. One of the most influential art dealers of the twentieth century, Leo Castelli arrived in New York with his wife Ileana Sonnabend in 1941. His gallery, opened 16 years later, launched the...
    06/06/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Nathaniel Donnett on Robert Rauschenberg Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Nathaniel Donnett on Robert Rauschenberg Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection June 6, 2010 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...
    05/20/10	The Menil Hosts a Reading with WITS and Glass Mountain Menil Collection The Menil Hosts a Reading with WITS and Glass Mountain Presented by Writers in the Schools and Menil Collection at Menil Collection May 20, 2010 The experimental collaboration between Writers in the Schools (WITS) and The Menil Collection, begun in 1990, has blossomed into a nationally-acclaimed, innovative use of art to inspire creative writing. On May 20, in the museum foyer, WITS students will read poems and prose based on The Menil Collection’s exhibitions of Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Maurizio Cattelan. In addition, poets from Glass Mountain, the undergraduate literary journal for the University of Houston,...
    05/10/10	Contemporary Art and Shifting Curatorial Practices: Lecture by curator Bisi Silva Menil Collection Contemporary Art and Shifting Curatorial Practices: Lecture by curator Bisi Silva Presented by Menil Collection and Glassell School, The Museum of Fine Arts at Menil Collection May 10, 2010 The Menil Collection and the Core Program at the Glassell School, along with Independent Curators International present a free public program with renowned curator Bisi Silva, (pictured), in a lecture entitled Contemporary Art and Shifting Curatorial Practices.  Monday, May 10, at 8pm at The Menil Collection. Founder and director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria, Ms. Silva will discuss the growing impact of...
    05/02/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Julie Ann Nagle on topic to be announced Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Julie Ann Nagle on topic to be announced Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection May 2, 2010 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...
    04/23/10	Film Screening: Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies Menil Collection Film Screening: Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 23, 2010 The Menil Collection presents a Film Screening: Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies, Friday, April 23 at 7:30pm. In 2007, New York¹s Pace-Wildenstein Gallery owner Arne Glimcher, and gallery director Bernice Rose (now curator of drawings at The Menil Collection), organized an exhibition (and book) that explored the neglected influence of early cinema on Picasso and Braque¹s revolutionary art movement, Cubism. At the Menil Collection,...
    04/11/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Jillian Conrad on René Magritte Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Jillian Conrad on René Magritte Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 11, 2010 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...
    04/02/10- 07/25/10	Steve Wolfe on Paper Menil Collection Steve Wolfe on Paper Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 2-July 25, 2010 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Steve Wolfe on Paper. On view April 2, 2010 through July 25, 2010. Steve Wolfe was born in Pisa, Italy in 1955 and lives and works in San Francisco, California. For the last twenty years, Wolfe has created objects and drawings of astounding craft and visual presence that investigate intersections among material culture, intellectual history, and personal and collective memory. Wolfe’s art represent objects...
    04/01/10	Panel Discussion: Steve Wolfe, Franklin Sirmans, and Carter Foster Menil Collection Panel Discussion: Steve Wolfe, Franklin Sirmans, and Carter Foster Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 1, 2010 The Menil Collection presents a Panel Discussion featuring Steve Wolfe, Franklin Sirmans, and Carter Foster, and focusing on Steve Wolfe on Paper, Thursday, April 1, 2010, 6:00 p.m. Steve Wolfe’s exacting trompe l’oeil drawings of books and record albums are rendered as worn and tattered to convey the marks of time and handling. Wolfe will join in a conversation about...
    03/20/10	FotoFest Gallery Talk: Michelle White, Harry Shunk's Leap in the the Void Menil Collection FotoFest Gallery Talk: Michelle White, Harry Shunk's Leap in the the Void Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 20, 2010 The Menil Collection presents a FotoFest Gallery Talk featuring Michelle White, and focusing on Harry Shunk’s “Leap into the Void” Saturday, March 20, 2010, 3:00 p.m. On October 23, 1960, photographer Harry Shunk’s camera captured artist Yves Klein hurling himself from a Parisian rooftop. The now iconic image, which has had a lasting influence on performance art, is one of some thirty works—by artists including Niki de...
    03/19/10- 08/08/10	Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Réalist Performance Menil Collection Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Réalist Performance Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 19-August 8, 2010 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Réalist Performance. On view March 19, 2010 through August 8, 2010. Nouveau Réalisme, translated as “New Realism,” was an artistic movement centered in Paris that took place in the early 1960s. With pyrotechnics, exploding pigment, blowtorches, lacerated décollage, and found materials, it is characterized by a paradoxical emphasis on notions of...
    03/13/10	Menil Community Arts Festival Menil Collection Menil Community Arts Festival Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 13, 2010 The Menil Community Arts Festival is a one-day open house event bringing together all of the arts organizations that exist in and around the Menil Collection campus. Through this unique collaborative effort Houstonians will have the opportunity to enjoy a day of free entertainment and access to some of the premier arts groups in the heart of Houston's museum district. The Menil Community Arts Festival is a one-day festival hosted by thirteen arts organizations...
    03/10/10	Poetry Reading: Rita Dove Menil Collection Poetry Reading: Rita Dove Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 10, 2010 The Menil Collection presents a Poetry Reading featuring Rita Dove, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 7:00 p.m. Esteemed American writer and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove (pictured) will read at the Menil Collection as part of the opening of the Houston Museum of African American Culture. She is the author of a dozen volumes of verse; her awards and...
    03/07/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Michael Bise on topic to be announced Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Michael Bise on topic to be announced Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 7, 2010 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...
    02/15/10	2010 Vivian L. Smith Lecture: Glenn Peers "Gold and Face: Living Members of the Menil’s Byzantium, Menil Collection 2010 Vivian L. Smith Lecture: Glenn Peers "Gold and Face: Living Members of the Menil’s Byzantium, Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection February 15, 2010 The Menil Collection presents the 2010 Vivian L. Smith Lecture: Glenn Peers - From the Collection: "Gold and Face: Living Members of the Menil’s Byzantium," Monday, February 15, 2010, 8:00 p.m. This illustrated lecture by the University of Texas Byzantine scholar argues for new ways of responding to and interpreting Byzantine objects. First we must see the objects as active and alive; then we must understand them as relevant to, and reflective of,...
    02/12/10- 08/15/10	Maurizio Cattelan Menil Collection Maurizio Cattelan Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection February 12-August 15, 2010 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Maurizio Cattelan. On view February 12 through August 15, 2010.  Curated by Franklin Sirmans, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Contemporary Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) is known for his witty embrace of semantic shifts that result from imaginative plays with materials, objects, and actions. In his work, contradictions in the space between what the...
    02/07/10	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Amber Eagle on the exhibition Body in Fragments Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Amber Eagle on the exhibition Body in Fragments Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection February 7, 2010 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. Sunday, February 7:
    02/05/10	Conversation: Josef Helfenstein and Franklin Sirmans - Twentieth-Century Art at the Menil Collection Menil Collection Conversation: Josef Helfenstein and Franklin Sirmans - Twentieth-Century Art at the Menil Collection Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection February 5, 2010 The Menil Collection presents Conversation: Josef Helfenstein and Franklin Sirmans "Twentieth-Century Art at the Menil Collection," Friday, February 5, 2010, 7:00 p.m. With the return of the six rooms of museum’s twentieth-century galleries to the building’s east end, four of those rooms remain focused on American artists long associated with the Menil: Johns, Newman, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol. Two other galleries revisit the work of...
    01/14/10	Conversation: Mark Morris Menil Collection Conversation: Mark Morris Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection January 14, 2010 Mark Morris, the American dancer, choreographer, and artistic director, comes to the Menil Collection for a conversation with Houston Ballet artistic director Stanton Welch, Thursday, January 14, 2010, at 7:30 pm. Their discussion will introduce the Mark Morris Dance Group’s Houston performances at Wortham Theater Center, January 15-16, presented by Society for the...
    12/08/09	Lecture and Reading: Josef Helfenstein and Edward Snow Cy Twombly/Painting Poems Menil Collection Lecture and Reading: Josef Helfenstein and Edward Snow Cy Twombly/Painting Poems Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection December 8, 2009 The Menil Collection presents a Lecture and Reading: Josef Helfenstein and Edward Snow Cy Twombly/Painting Poems, Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 7 p.m. In a literary program accompanying the rare showing of Cy Twombly’s Treatise on the Veil (Second Version), Menil Director Josef Helfenstein (pictured, photo by George Hixson) will speak briefly about the artist’s use of the words of poet Rainer Maria Rilke in his canvases. Rice...
    12/06/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: James Sham on Dada and Surrealism Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: James Sham on Dada and Surrealism Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection December 6, 2009 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. Sunday, December 6: James...
    11/12/09	Two Gallery Talks: Maria Ines Sicardi, Combined Menil and MFAH Exhibition Tours Various locations around Houston Two Gallery Talks: Maria Ines Sicardi, Combined Menil and MFAH Exhibition Tours Presented by Menil Collection at Various locations around Houston November 12, 2009 The Menil Collection presents Two Gallery Talks: Maria Ines Sicardi, Combined Menil and MFAH Exhibition Tours, Thursday, November 12, 2009. 5:30 p.m. - Menil and 7 p.m. - MFAH. Maria Ines Sicardi (pictured) will conduct back-to-back tours of the two exhibitions Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood at the Menil Collection and
    10/30/09- 02/14/10	Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil Menil Collection Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection October 30, 2009-February 14, 2010 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil. On view October 30, 2009 through February 14, 2010. This exhibition showcases American artist Cy Twombly's monumental work, Treatise on the Veil (Second Version), painted in Rome in 1970. The second of two paintings (the first a 1968 painting in the collection of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne), it entered The Menil Collection in 1998 following the museum's 1995 completion of a building...
    09/24/09- 01/03/10	Joaquín Torres-García: Wood Constructions Menil Collection Joaquín Torres-García: Wood Constructions Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection September 24, 2009-January 3, 2010 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Joaquín Torres-García: Wood Constructions. On view September 24, 2009 through January 3, 2010. The exhibition will center chiefly on works from the 1920s to the 1940s, spanning the time from when Torres-García lived in Spain, New York, Italy, and France, developing toys and the vocabulary for his wood constructions, to his eventual settlement in Uruguay as the founder of a Constructivist art movement....
    09/06/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: John Runnels Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: John Runnels Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection September 6, 2009 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. Sunday, September 6: John...
    08/21/09- 02/08/10	Body in Fragments Menil Collection Body in Fragments Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection August 21, 2009-February 8, 2010 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Body in Fragments. On view August 21, 2009 through February 14, 2010. February 8, 2010. Within the Menil’s collection of more than 16,000 objects—paintings, sculptures, works on paper, rare books and manuscripts, and other works of art—one finds numerous examples of fragmented human bodies. These range from the disembodied limbs and heads of Egyptian and medieval sculptures to works of...
    08/07/09	In Memory of Merce Cunningham & Robert Rauschenberg Menil Collection In Memory of Merce Cunningham & Robert Rauschenberg Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection August 7, 2009 The Menil Collection, ARTPIX, Microcinema International, and Society for the Performing Arts invite you to see filmed performances of Merce Cunningham Dance Company at a program In Memory of Merce Cunningham & Robert Rauschenberg, Friday, August 7, 8:00 p.m., on The Menil Collection Front Lawn, 1515 Sul Ross, Houston, Texas. Free and open to the public. The Menil screenings of Split Sides (2003)and Interscape (2000) use archival footage made by...
    06/07/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Libbie Masterson Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Libbie Masterson Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection June 7, 2009 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. Sunday, June 7: Libbie...
    05/12/09	Panel Discussion: Contemporary Conversations, John Chamberlain's American Tableau Menil Collection Panel Discussion: Contemporary Conversations, John Chamberlain's American Tableau Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection May 12, 2009 The Menil Collection presents a Panel Discussion: Contemporary Conversations, John Chamberlain's "American Tableau," Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 8 p.m. John Chamberlain’s 1984 sculpture forms the third exhibition in the “Contemporary Conversations” series, organized by Franklin Sirmans (pictured), Menil Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Joining him to discuss...
    05/10/09	Conversation: Claes Oldenburg and Bernice Rose Menil Collection Conversation: Claes Oldenburg and Bernice Rose Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection May 10, 2009 The Menil Collection presents a Conversation: Claes Oldenburg and Bernice Rose, "Drawings on Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen," Sunday, May 10, 2009, 7 p.m. The exhibition brings together drawings for public monuments proposed over the last twenty years by Oldenburg (pictured) and his late wife, Coosje van Bruggen. Claes Oldenburg will be joined by Bernice Rose, The Menil Drawing...
    05/09/09- 10/11/09	Drawings on Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Menil Collection Drawings on Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection May 9-October 11, 2009 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Drawings on Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. On view May 9 through October 11. Showcasing drawings for public monuments proposed over the past thirty years by American artists Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) and Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009), Drawings On Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen includes more than a dozen drawings from the artists’ private collection. As an innovator of...
    05/03/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Christopher Sperandio Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Christopher Sperandio Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection May 3, 2009 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. Sunday, May 3: Christopher...
    04/28/09	Public Lecture: Brad Epley - Conservation at the Menil: Preserving a Collection Menil Collection Public Lecture: Brad Epley - Conservation at the Menil: Preserving a Collection Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 28, 2009 The Menil Collection presents a Public Lecture:  Brad Epley "Conservation at the Menil: Preserving a Collection," Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 8 p.m. Preserving the art of our times presents unique opportunities and challenges. Menil Collection Chief Conservator Brad Epley (pictured) discusses the field of conservation and its unique relationship to modern and contemporary art by looking at several projects undertaken by the museum over the...
    04/25/09	The Menil Arts Community Open House Menil Collection The Menil Arts Community Open House Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 25, 2009 Saturday, April 25, from 3pm-9pm,  The Menil Collection presents The Menil Arts Community Open House. The premier non-profit arts organizations of the Menil community invite you to an open house.  The Menil Arts Community Open House is a FREE afternoon of music, film, readings, and visual arts.  With:  DEMONSTRATIONS, ART SALES, EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, FAMILY ARTS ACTIVITIES, FILM ARTS AND VIDEOKE. The Open House will extend...
    04/21/09	From the Collection: Egyptian Art in the Menil Collection, a Conversation: Deborah Vischak Menil Collection From the Collection: Egyptian Art in the Menil Collection, a Conversation: Deborah Vischak Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 21, 2009 The Menil Collection presents  From the Collection: Egyptian Art in the Menil Collection, a Conversation: Deborah Vischak,  Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 8 p.m. This illustrated talk by Princeton Egyptologist Deborah Vischak (pictured)  is co-presented by the museum’s Programs, Membership, and Curatorial Departments. It inaugurates the Menil Collection’s new annual lecture series From the Collection.
    04/14/09	Menil/Rice Lecture Series: Barbara Maria Stafford: The Slow Conscious Look Toward a Pedagogy of Attentiveness Rice University - Herring Hall Menil/Rice Lecture Series: Barbara Maria Stafford: The Slow Conscious Look Toward a Pedagogy of Attentiveness Presented by Menil Collection at Rice University - Herring Hall April 14, 2009 The Menil Collection presents the Menil/Rice Lecture Series.  The 2008-2009 theme is  Museums and the Medical Humanities. “Museums and the Medical Humanities: The Arts of Transformation” continues the biennial series organized by the Menil Collection and Rice University’s Department of Art History. Each of the four lectures (two hosted by the Menil, two by Rice) addresses a single theme, taking inspiration from the Menil’s...
    04/13/09	Public Reading: Bodies of Paint, Bodies of Text: A Poetic Response to Marlene Dumas Menil Collection Public Reading: Bodies of Paint, Bodies of Text: A Poetic Response to Marlene Dumas Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 13, 2009 The Menil Collection presents a Public Reading Organized by Sasha West (pictured), entitled Bodies of Paint, Bodies of Text: A Poetic Response to Marlene Dumas, Monday, April 13, 2009, 7 p.m. Pursuing Gulf Coast’s mission to explore the intersection between the visual and verbal arts, poet and former editor Sasha West invites a group of writers to read poems that resonate with the Marlene...
    04/05/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Cory Wagner Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Cory Wagner Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 5, 2009 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. Sunday, April 5: Cory...
    03/30/09	Reading and Booksigning: Andrei Codrescu, The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess Menil Collection Reading and Booksigning: Andrei Codrescu, The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 30, 2009 The Menil Collection presents a Reading and Booksigning: Andrei Codrescu, The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess. Monday, March 30, 2009, 7 p.m. Reading: The Menil Collection foyer Booksigning: Menil Collection Bookstore Andrei Codrescu (pictured) (www.codrescu.com ) has been a commentator on All Things Considered since 1983. He is an homme-de-lettres whose novels, essays and...
    03/27/09- 06/21/09	Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave Menil Collection Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 27-June 21, 2009 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave. On view March 27 through June 21. Painter Marlene Dumas, born in 1953 in Capetown, South Africa, has lived and worked in Amsterdam since 1976. In her work, she uses the human figure as her subject matter. Both the physical reality of the human body and the psychological aspects of the face and body language are emphasized in Dumas’s works. She traces the cycle of life from birth...
    03/19/09- 08/02/09	Contemporary Conversations: John Chamberlain, American Tableau Menil Collection Contemporary Conversations: John Chamberlain, American Tableau Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 19-August 2, 2009 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Contemporary Conversations: John Chamberlain, American Tableau.  On view March 19 through August 2. Born in Rochester, Indiana, in 1927, John Chamberlain grew up in Chicago, Illinois. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Chamberlain studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951–1952 and Black Mountain College near Asheville,...
    03/13/09	Public Lecture: The Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement Menil Collection Public Lecture: The Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 13, 2009 The Menil Collection presents a Public Lecture: The Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement,  Friday, March 13, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Maria Lind (pictured), 2009 recipient of the Hopps award, directs the graduate program at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies. Previously she was the artistic director at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS) and the director of Munich Kunstverein. The award, bestowed biennially...
    03/10/09	Menil/Rice Lecture Series: Richard Tuttle: Positive Art and Positive Healing Menil Collection Menil/Rice Lecture Series: Richard Tuttle: Positive Art and Positive Healing Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 10, 2009 The Menil Collection presents the Menil/Rice Lecture Series.  The 2008-2009 theme is  Museums and the Medical Humanities. “Museums and the Medical Humanities: The Arts of Transformation” continues the biennial series organized by the Menil Collection and Rice University’s Department of Art History. Each of the four lectures (two hosted by the Menil, two by Rice) addresses a single theme, taking inspiration from the Menil’s...
    03/01/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Page Kempner Lummis Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Page Kempner Lummis Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection March 1, 2009 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. Sunday, March 1: Page Kempner Lummis...
    02/06/09- 04/26/09	Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection Menil Collection Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection February 6-April 26, 2009 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection.  On view February 6 through April 26. Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection examines one of the most primary elements of human interaction: to look upon the face of another. Including prints from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, a few pre-Renaissance sculptures, and a small group of...
    01/13/09	Illustrated Conversation: William Camfield and Josef Helfenstein Menil Collection Illustrated Conversation: William Camfield and Josef Helfenstein Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection January 13, 2009 The Menil Collection presents an Illustrated Conversation, featuring William Camfield and Josef Helfenstein, and focusing on the exhibition Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie. William Camfield, professor emeritus of art history at Rice University, has written extensively on Dada and Surrealism. His books include the critical biography Francis Picabia and the catalogue...
    01/04/09	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Andrea Grover Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Andrea Grover Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection January 4, 2009 The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series. Sunday, January 4: Andrea Grover (pictured). Andrea Grover is the co-founder and artistic director of Aurora Picture Show, a micro cinema housed in a former church building in Houston. She has curated over ten years of film, video, and interdisciplinary programming for Aurora, as well as exhibitions for apexart, New York; Lawndale Art Center, Houston;...
    10/31/08- 02/15/09	Max Ernst: In the Garden of Nymph Ancolie Menil Collection Max Ernst: In the Garden of Nymph Ancolie Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection October 31, 2008-February 15, 2009 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Max Ernst: In the Garden of Nymph Ancolie. 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 jardin de la nymphe Ancolie. The surrealist work, with a bird-like figure emerging from monumental curling red flower petals, was painted by German-born artist Max Ernst (1891-1976) in 1934 for the...
    09/26/08- 01/04/09	Art and Power in the Central African Savanna Menil Collection Art and Power in the Central African Savanna Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection September 26, 2008-January 4, 2009 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, September 26, 2008 through January 4, 2009. Power figures, once commonly referred to as fetishes, are among the best-known and most striking examples of religious art in sub-Saharan Africa. Commonly in the shape of humans and animals, these carved wooden objects were used by a large number of people in Central Africa's southern savanna as containers for medicinal...
    08/15/08- 03/01/09	Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection Menil Collection Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection August 15, 2008-March 1, 2009 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection. Artists and writers have long been intrigued with the idea of constructing imaginary space, from hypothetical utopian environments to invisible cities. The idea can encompass visionary architecture, the abstraction of space through text-based work, and earth art projects. Drawing from The Menil Collection’s diverse holdings of paintings and works on paper that...

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