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A Selection of Menil Collection Works Traveling Internationally
The Menil Collection actively lends works from the collection to exhibitions around the world. If your travel plans include any of the following locations, you may wish to visit these exhibitions.
“Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley"
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
September 11, 2011 – March 4, 2012
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford
April 15 – September 9, 2012
Musée du quai Branly, Paris
November 12, 2012 – January 13, 2013
Nigeria, Anthropomorphic Sculpture, before 1850; Wurbon Daudu, Nigeria, Standing Female Figure, late 19th–early 20th century; Nigeria, Standing Male Figure, 14th–16th century
“René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle”
Albertina, Vienna
November 9, 2011 – February 26, 2012
René Magritte, Le paysage de Baucis (Baucis' Landscape), 1966; Golconde (Golconda), 1953; La clef de verre (The Glass Key), 1959
“Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970"
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles
October 1, 2011 – February 5, 2012
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
March 15 – June 10, 2012
Edward Kienholz, Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps, 1959, gift of Lannan Foundation
“Dalí, Ernst, Miró: Surrealism in Paris"
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel
October 2, 2011 – January 29, 2012
Giorgio de Chirico, Interno metafisico con biscotti (Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits), 1916; Max Ernst, Painting for Young People, 1943; Yves Tanguy, Les vues (Views), 1929
“Claes Oldenburg. From Street to Mouse: 1959-1970”
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
February 3 – May 27, 2012
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
June 22 – September 30, 2012
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao
October 30, 2012 – February 28, 2013
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
April 9 – August 4, 2013
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
September 13, 2013 – January 13, 2014
Claes Oldenburg, Left-Handed Flag, 1960, gift of the artist; Store Objects – Watch in Case, Cupcakes, Sock, 1962, gift of the artist; Proposed Colossal Monument for Times Square, New York: Banana, Lying Position, 1965, gift of the artist; Late Submission to the Chicago Tribune Architectural Competition of 1922 - Clothespin, Version One, 1967, bequest of David Whitney; Proposed Colossal Monument for Central Park, N.Y.C. - Moving Pool Balls, 1967; Proposed Colossal Monument for Park Avenue, New York - Bowling Balls, 1967; Potato Potato...!, 1959, gift of the artist; Ray Gun Poster – Figure with Hat, 1960, gift of the artist; Street Chick, 1960, gift of the artist; Street Chick with Manhole, 1960, gift of the artist; Street Scene with Marquee, Mamaganger, Van, "PDR,", 1960, gift of the artist; Poster for "Ironworks", 1961, gift of the artist; Street Chicks with Theater Sign, 1961, gift of the artist; Street Chicks with Theater Sign – MASTE WEE, 1961, gift of the artist
“Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague, 1624-25”
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
February 15 – May 27, 2012
Anthony van Dyck, St. Rosalie Interceding for the Plague Victims of Palermo, 1624
“Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary”
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
February 18 – May 20, 2012
Nancy Grossman, Blind Masked Head, 1968
“John Chamberlain: Choices"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
February 24 – May 9, 2012
John Chamberlain, Nanoweap, 1969; Rooster Starfoot, 1976, gift of Heiner and Fariha Friedrich
“Fresh Window: The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp"
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
March 31 – August 12, 2012
René Magritte, La lunette d’approche (The Telescope), 1963; Le soir qui tombe (Evening Falls), 1964
“Utopia/Dystopia: Constructed with Photography "
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston
March 13 – June 20, 2012
Christo, Empaquetage of a Public Building, Project for the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome,
1967; Peter Hutchinson, Iceberg Project, 1969; Robert Rauschenberg, Signs, 1970
“Women: Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Willem de Kooning"
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
March 30 – July 15, 2012
Willem de Kooning, Untitled VI, 1977, gift of Adelaide de Menil Carpenter, Formerly in the collection of Christophe de Menil
“Marcel Duchamp in Munich"
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
March 31 – July 15, 2012
Marcel Duchamp, Aéroplane, 1912 (Aug.-Sept.)
“Frank Stella"
Institut Valenciá d'Art Modern, Centre Julio González, Valenciá
June 21 – August 19, 2012
Frank Stella, Avicenna, 1960
The Menil Collection foyer. Photo: Hester + Hardaway