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  Menil Collection

  1515 Sul Ross
  Houston, TX 77006

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

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• • Current Events

    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...

    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...

• • Upcoming Events

    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...
    07/08/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Robert Ruello Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Robert Ruello Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection July 8, 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. ...
    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...
    08/10/12- 01/06/13	Dear John & Dominique : Letters and Drawings from the Menil Archives Menil Collection Dear John & Dominique : Letters and Drawings from the Menil Archives Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection August 10, 2012-January 6, 2013 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Dear John & Dominique : Letters and Drawings from the Menil Archives. On view August 10, 2012 - January 6, 2013. This exhibition commemorates the Menil’s 25th anniversary. It celebrates the founders of the Menil Collection, John and Dominique de Menil, through the words and images in the letters and drawings sent to them by their friends: artists, curators, museum directors, architects, family members and...
    12/01/12- 03/17/13	Love and Africa Menil Collection Love and Africa Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection December 1, 2012-March 17, 2013 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Love and Africa. On view December 1, 2012 – March 17, 2013. Numerous scholars have addressed the ways media, technology, and capitalism have affected Western notions of love over the last few centuries. Little attention, however, has been paid to the impact of these forces on the conception of love in Africa, or even to the subject itself. “Love and Africa” explores romantic love, self-love,...
    04/12/13- 08/18/13	Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible Menil Collection Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 12-August 18, 2013 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible. On view April 12 – August 18, 2013. Self-described “visionary” artist Forrest Bess (1911–77) is a unique figure in the history of American art. For most of his career, Bess lived an isolated existence in a fishing camp outside of Bay City, Texas, eking out a meager living by selling bait and fishing. By night and during the off-season, however, he read,...

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Current &
Upcoming Events

• Current Events

  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...

  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...

• Upcoming Events

  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...
  07/08/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Robert Ruello Menil Collection Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Robert Ruello Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection July 8, 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. ...
  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...
  08/10/12- 01/06/13	Dear John & Dominique : Letters and Drawings from the Menil Archives Menil Collection Dear John & Dominique : Letters and Drawings from the Menil Archives Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection August 10, 2012-January 6, 2013 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Dear John & Dominique : Letters and Drawings from the Menil Archives. On view August 10, 2012 - January 6, 2013. This exhibition commemorates the Menil’s 25th anniversary. It celebrates the founders of the Menil Collection, John and Dominique de Menil, through the words and images in the letters and drawings sent to them by their friends: artists, curators, museum directors, architects, family members and...
  12/01/12- 03/17/13	Love and Africa Menil Collection Love and Africa Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection December 1, 2012-March 17, 2013 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Love and Africa. On view December 1, 2012 – March 17, 2013. Numerous scholars have addressed the ways media, technology, and capitalism have affected Western notions of love over the last few centuries. Little attention, however, has been paid to the impact of these forces on the conception of love in Africa, or even to the subject itself. “Love and Africa” explores romantic love, self-love,...
  04/12/13- 08/18/13	Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible Menil Collection Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection April 12-August 18, 2013 The Menil Collection presents the exhibition Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible. On view April 12 – August 18, 2013. Self-described “visionary” artist Forrest Bess (1911–77) is a unique figure in the history of American art. For most of his career, Bess lived an isolated existence in a fishing camp outside of Bay City, Texas, eking out a meager living by selling bait and fishing. By night and during the off-season, however, he read,...

Past
Events

• Past Events

  05/17/12	The Watchful Eye: A WITS Student Reading at the Menil Collection Menil Collection
  05/06/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Allison Hunter on Richard Serra Menil Collection
  04/17/12	Menil Illustrated Lecture: Amanda Douberley - The Obelisk, the Astronaut, and the Mouse: Defining Public Sculpture for Houston Menil Collection
  04/14/12	Fifth Annual Houston Indie Book Festival Menil Collection
  04/14/12	Menil Community Arts Festival Menil Collection
  04/11/12	Menil Collection Panel Discussion Menil Collection
  04/09/12	Poetry Reading: Ghassan Zaqtan - Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me Menil Collection
  04/03/12	Menil-Morgan Lecture with Barbara Rose: The Impact of Medieval Illumination on Modern Drawing Menil Collection
  04/01/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Ebony Porter on the Menil Collection Campus Menil Collection
  03/24/12	Sources and Echoes: Celebrating a Decade of Nameless Sound in Houston Menil Collection
  03/23/12	Cinematic Graphite Menil Collection
  03/13/12	After Debussy (Part II of a Two-Concert Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Claude Debussy's Birth) Menil Collection
  03/10/12	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Celebrating Debussy Menil Collection
  03/06/12	Conservation Panel Discussion: Conserving the Work of John Chamberlain Menil Collection
  03/04/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Bert Samples on a Bedu Mask from Côte d'Ivoire Menil Collection
  02/19/12	Constructions of Art & Faith: The Byzantine Fresco Chapel and the Menil Collection Menil Collection
  02/12/12	Chant •Sonata •Duet: Music for The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Menil Collection
  02/05/12	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Curtis Gannon on Jasper Johns Menil Collection
  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
  12/03/11	Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) Montrose Walking Tour 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	Violinist Jennifer Koh Menil Collection
  11/08/11	Simone Dinnerstein, piano CANCELLED 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
  10/26/11- 11/09/11	Hanging Max Ernst - A Documentary Film Series (three Wednesdays) 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
  10/21/11- 03/18/12	Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from 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
  09/16/11	8th Annual Media Archeology Festival: Performing and Playing in Bits With Robert Toth 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
  07/17/11	In Tribute to Edmund Carpenter: A Reading of Eskimo Realities Menil Collection
  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
  05/19/11	Houston Young Writers Reading Series: The Watchful Eye Menil Collection
  05/14/11	Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) Montrose Walking Tour 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
  04/09/11	Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) Montrose Walking Tour Menil Collection
  04/03/11	Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: Karen Lastre on Mark Rothko Menil Collection
  04/02/11	Third Annual Menil Community Arts Festival Menil Collection
  04/02/11	Fourth Annual Houston Indie Book Festival Menil Collection
  04/02/11	STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Family Concert: Family Drum Circle and Jazz Concert with Sam Dinkins III Menil Collection
  03/29/11	Jeremy Denk: The American Piano 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
  03/12/11	Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) Montrose Walking Tour Menil Collection
  03/10/11	Menil Lecture – Adrienne Kaeppler: The Voyages of Captain Cook and the Art of the Pacific Menil Collection
  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	Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) Montrose Walking Tour 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
  01/15/11	Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) Montrose Walking Tour 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
  12/11/10	Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) Montrose Walking Tour 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	Menil Gallery Talk: A conversation with Vija Celmins, Franklin Sirmans, and Michelle White Menil Collection
  11/19/10- 02/20/11	Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1968 Menil Collection
  11/13/10	Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) Montrose Walking Tour Menil Collection
  11/03/10	Menil/Aurora Publication Party and Booksigning: Art & Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil Menil Collection
  11/02/10	ICE: New Sounds Menil Collection
  10/22/10	Menil Gallery Talk: A Conversation with Isabel Schulz and Josef Helfenstein Menil Collection
  10/22/10- 01/30/11	Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage Menil Collection
  10/19/10	Arcanto Quartet Menil Collection
  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
  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
  05/23/10	Anarchist Picnic Menil Collection