Past Exhibitions
The Menil Collection: Exhibitions 1987–2012
Exhibitions are listed in reverse chronological order.
2013
Dear John & Dominique: Letters and Drawings from the Menil Archives
August 10, 2012 – January 6, 2013
2012
Silence
July 27 - October 21, 2012
This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs
March 30 - July 29, 2012
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective
March 2 - June 10, 2012
Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine & Russian Icons from The Menil Collection
October 21, 2011 - March 18, 2012
Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the Collection
September 23, 2011 - January 15, 2012
Walter De Maria: Trilogies
September 16, 2011 - January 8, 2012
2011
The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil
March 5 - September 25, 2011
Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea
May 6 - August 28, 2011
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Upside Down: Arctic Realities
April 15 - July 17, 2011
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Tony Smith: Drawings
December 17, 2010 - April 3, 2011
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Kissed by Angels: A Selection of Work from Southern California
November 19, 2010 - February 20, 2011
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Vija Celmins: Televison and Disaster, 1964-1966
November 19, 2010 - February 20, 2011
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Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage
October 22, 2010–January 30, 2011
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2010
Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions
August 27 - November 28, 2010
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Objects of Devotion
August 13 - October 31, 2010
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Maurizio Cattelan
February 12 - August 15, 2010
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Leaps into the Void
March 19 - August 8, 2010
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Steve Wolfe on Paper
April 2 - July 25, 2010
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Body in Fragments
August 21, 2009 - February 28, 2010
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Cy Twombly : Treatise on the Veil
October 30, 2009 - February 14, 2010
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Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood
September 25, 2009 - January 3, 2010
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2009
Drawings On Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
May 9 - October 11, 2009
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Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave
March 27 - June 21, 2009
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Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection
February 6 – April 26, 2009
Francis Bacon Christian Berard, Abraham Bloemaert, Victor Brauner, Denys Calvaert, François Clouet, Aelbert Cuyp, Honoré Daumier, Marlene Dumas, J. Duprey, William Eggleston, Louis Fernández, Tsuguharu Foujita, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Francisco Goya, Sir Gottfried Kneller, Lucas van Leyden, René Magritte, Bartolomeo Passarotti (circle of), Harmensz Rembrandt van Rijn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Larry Rivers, Georges Rouault, Henry O. Tanner, Nicolaes Verkolje, and unattributed artists from Egypt, Flanders, France, Mexico, Peru, and Spain.
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2008
Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie
October 31, 2008–February 15, 2009
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Art and Power in Central African Savanna
September 26, 2008–January 4, 2009
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Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection
August 22, 2008–March 1, 2009
Artists: Vija Celmins, Giorgio de Chirico, Christo, Joseph Cornell, Hermann Finsterlin, Michael Heizer, John Hejduk, Edward Kienholz, René Magritte, Man Ray, Roberto Matta (Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren), Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Smithson, James Turrell, Unattributed
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NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith
June 27–September 21, 2008
Artists: Terry Adkins, Janine Antoni, Radcliffe Bailey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, José Bedia, Rebecca Belmore, Sanford Biggers, Tania Bruguera, James Lee Byars, John Cage, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, William Cordova, Jimmie Durham, Regina José Galindo, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzales-Torres, David Hammons, Michael Joo, Brian Jungen, Kcho (Alexis Leyva Machado), Marepe (Marcos Reis Peixoto), Ana Mendieta, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Pepón Osorio, Adrian Piper, Ernesto Pujol, Dario Robleto, Betye Saar, Doris Salcedo, Gary Simmons, George Smith, Michael Tracy, Nari Ward
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Sterne & Steinberg: Critics Within
May 23–August 17, 2008
Artists: Hedda Sterne and Saul Steinberg
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Max Neuhaus: Circumscription Drawings
May 3–August 10, 2008
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form, color, illumination: Suzan Frecon painting
March 7–May 11, 2008
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How Artists Draw: Toward the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center
February 15–May 18, 2008
Artists: Lee Bontecou, Georges Braque, André Breton, Victor Brauner, Marcel Broodthaers, Vija Celmins, Paul Cezanne, John Chamberlain, Christo, Chuck Close willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Robert Gober, Vincent van Gogh, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Juan Gris, Michael Heizer, Jacques Herold, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Fernand Léger, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, René Magritte, Man Ray, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Roberto Matta (Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren), Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Georgia O’Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Odilon Redon, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Serra, Georges Seurat, Frank Stella, Yves Tanguy, Cy Twombly
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Vivid Vernacular: William Christenberry, William Eggleston, and Walker Evans [FotoFest]
January 11–April 20, 2008
Artists: William Christenberry, William Eggleston, and Walker Evans
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2007
Contemporary Conversations: Robert Ryman, 1976
November 9, 2007–February 17, 2008
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A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s
October 25, 2007–January 13, 2008 01
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Lessons from Below: Otabenga Jones & Associates
September 14–December 9, 2007
Artists: John Brathwaite, Emil Cadoo, Alexander Calder, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henry Ray Clark, Joseph Cornell, Roy Rudolph Decarava, George Deem, C. A. A. Dellschau, Sir Jacob Epstein, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, Tsuguharu Foujita, Ronald Hartgrove, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Klee, Helen Levitt, Llanta, Walter de Maria, Edward Orme & Denton, Joe Overstreet, Wolfgang Paalen, Richard Pettibone, Barbara Chase Riboud, Yves Tanguy, Unattributed, James Augustus Joseph Van DerZee, Wand, Andy Warhol, Williamson & Puryear, objects from Africa and North American cultures
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A Modern Patronage: de Menil Gifts to European and American Museums
June 8–September 16, 2007
Artists: Lee Bontecou, Christo, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Man Ray, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Mark Rothko, Jean Tinguely, Andy Warhol, and Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze), and objects from Africa, Oceania, and Mexico
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The David Whitney Bequest
May 11–August 12, 2007
Artists: Vija Celmans, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Claes Oldenburg, Ken Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Steve Wolfe
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Andy Warhol: Three Houston Women
March 16–
August 26, 2007
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Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces
February 23–May 13, 2007
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Everyday People: 20th-Century Photography from The Menil Collection
January 26–April 29, 2007
Artists: Eve Arnold, Gertrude Duby Blom, Brassai (Pseudonym of Gyula Halász), Larry Burrows, Emil Cadoo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Scott Michael Coburn, Bruce L. Davidson, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Ira Friedlander, Blaine Hickey, Jacques Henri Lartigue, E. Lewis, Danny Lyon, Joshua Mann Pailet, Gordon Parks, Odgen Robertson, Moneta Sleet, Jr., W. Eugene Smith, Eve Sonneman, James Augustus Joseph Van DerZee, Shawn Walker
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2006
Contemporary Conversations: David Novros and The Menil Collection
November 3, 2006–March 4, 2007
The Menil Collection, Houston
Klee and America
October 6, 2006–January 28, 2007
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Imagery of Chess Revisited
September 8, 2006–January 7, 2007
Artists: Xenia Cage, Alexander Calder, Julio de Diego, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Richard Filiopowski, Josef Hartwig, Herman Miller Furniture Catalogue, Antonin Heythum, Carol Janeway, Leon Kelly, Steffi Kiesler, Julien Levy, Man Ray, Roberto Matta (Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren), Isamu Noguchi, Kay Sage, Kurt Seligmann, Muriel Streeter, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning
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Color and Line: Selections from The Menil Collection
July 21–October 22, 2006
Artists: Yves Klein, Brice Marden, John McLaughlin, Kenneth Noland, Fred Sandback, Frank Stella
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Chance Encounters: The Formation of the de Menil's African Collection
May 26–September 10, 2006
Artists: Francis Bacon, Victor Brauner, James Lee Byars, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Chryssa, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Jay Defeo, Max Ernst, Louis Fernandez, Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, objects from Africa, Melanesia, Polynesia, and British Columbia, Roman objects
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Frank Stella 1958
May 26–August 20, 2006
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West Coast Abstract Expressionist Art: Selections from The Menil Collection
March 31–July 9, 2006
Artists: Edward Dugmore, Sonia Gechtoff, James Kelly, Walter Kuhlman, Clyfford Still
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William Christenberry
March 17–May 7, 2006
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Insistent Objects: David Levinthal's Blackface
March 17–May 7, 2006
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Eva Hesse Drawing
February 3–April 23, 2006
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2005
Robert Gober: The Meat Wagon
October 28, 2005–January 22, 2006
Artists: Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, William Eggleston, Lucio Fontana, Roger de la Fresnaye, Robert Gober, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Charles Howard, Charles James, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Joshua Mann Pailet, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mark Rothko, Georges Rouault, Tony Smith, François Xavier Vispre, Andy Warhol, objects from Egypt, Europe, and North and South America
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Convulsive Beauty: Selections from The Menil Collection
October 5, 2005–February 5, 2006
Artists:
André Breton, Victor Brauner, Yves Tanguy, and Jacques Hérold, Federico Castellon, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Robert Gober, Jim Love, René Magritte, Unattributed
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The Surreal Calder
September 30, 2005–January 8, 2006
Artists: Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, and Yves Tanguy
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Sand Mandala: The Sacred Tour
September 17–23, 2005
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Bill Traylor, William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse
July 22–October 2, 2005
Artists: Bill Traylor and William Edmondson; with photographs of the artists at work by Edward Weston, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and Charles Shannon
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David McManaway and Friends: Jim Love and Roy Fridge with additional works donated by William Hill
June 10–September 18, 2005
Artists: Roy Fridge, David Gibson, Lucas Johnson, Jim Love, David McManaway, and Forrest Prince
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Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper
May 27–September 4, 2005
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Ellsworth Kelly: Tablet
February 11–May 8, 2005
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Romuald Hazoumé: La Bouche du Roi
January 29– June 12, 2005
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Deep Wells and Reflecting Pools
January 21– May 29, 2005
Artists: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Jacques Charles, George Dawe, J. Duprey (Duprys), Sir Jacob Epstein, David Claypool Johnston, Lasteyrie du Saillant (after Wailly & Werner), Gabriel Mathias, David Mossey, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Larry Rivers, attributed to Thomas Rowlandson, Shields & Harnell, Unattributed, Marcel Antoine Verdier, François-Andre Vincent, Wedgwood, Williamson & Puryear
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2004
Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments
October 8, 2004–January 2, 2005
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Contortion and Distortion: Post-War European Art from The Menil Collection
September 22, 2004–January 9, 2005
Artists: Roberto Crippa, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely
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Old Masters: Selections from The Menil Collection
July 14–September 12, 2004
Artists: Abraham Bloemaert, workshop of Charles le Brun, Hans Burgkmair, Luca Cambiaso, attributed to Bernardo Cavallino, François Clouet, Lucas Cranach, the Elder, Aelbert Cuyp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, after Gianfrancesco Penni, Rembrandt van Rijn, Adriaan van Salm, Nicolaes Verkolje, Unattributed
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Earthworks: Land Art at the Menil
June 9–August 15, 2004
Artists: Michael Heizer, Peter Hutchinson, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, James Turrell
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Olafur Eliasson: Photographs
May 26–September 5, 2004
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Luisa Lambri: Locations
March 19–June 27, 2004
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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings
March 5–May 9, 2004
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Luis Barragán : An Unbuilt House for the Menil
February 11–May 30, 2004
Artists: Luis Barragán and Raúl Ferrera
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2003
Tabletki: Russian Icons from The Menil Collection
October 3, 2003–January 25, 2004
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Jonathan Monk: Square Circles Squares
October 3, 2003–January 11, 2004
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Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism
October 3, 2003–January 11, 2004
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In Pursuit of the Absolute
September 17, 2003–February 29, 2004
Artists: Donald Judd, Yves Klein, Sol Lewitt, Brice Marden, Walter de Maria, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still
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Tony Smith Sculpture
September 12, 2003–ongoing
Loretto Park, The Menil Collection
Dan Flavin, monuments for V. Tatlin
August 9, 2003–ongoing
Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection
Roberto Matta: Cosmic Terrains. Selections from The Menil Collection
June 6–September 4, 2003
Artist: Roberto Matta (Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren)
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James Rosenquist: A Retrospective
May 17–August 17, 2003
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Sanctuaries: The Last Works of John Hejduk. Selections from the John Hejduk Archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal & The Menil Collection, Houston
May 7–August 31, 2003
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Jasper Johns: Drawings
January 31–May 4, 2003
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2002
Donald Judd:. Early Work 1955-1968
January 31April 27, 2003
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H. C. Westermann
October 4, 2002–January 5, 2003
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Anna Gaskell: half life
September 27, 2002–January 12, 2003
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Old Masters: Selections from The Menil Collection
July 14–September 12, 2002
Artists:
Edmé Bouchardon, Luca Cambiaso, Guglielmo Caccia (attrib.), Giuseppe Cesari (attrib.), Claude Louis Chatelet, Vincenzo Dal Ré, Johan Gottfried Eichler the Younger, Raymond de la Fage, Jan Hackaert (attrib.), Pirro Ligorio (attrib.), Alessandro Magnasco, Giulio or Alfonso Parigi, Francesco Parmigianino, Gabriel Pérelle and Jean Lepantre (attrib.), Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Jean Restout, Giulio Romano (circle of), George Romney, Antonio Tempesta, Giovanni da Udine, and unattributed from France and Italy.
Vik Muniz: Model Pictures
February 22–June 9, 2002
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Agnes Martin: The Nineties and Beyond
February 1–May 26, 2002
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2001
Victor Brauner: Surrealist Hieroglyphs
October 26, 2001–January 6, 2002
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Mineko Grimmer: Remembering Plato
September 26, 2001–February 3, 2002
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The Exquisite Corpse
June 1–September 9, 2001
Artists: Victor Brauner, André Breton, Thérèse Caen, Salvador Dalí, Oscar Domínguez, Nusch Eluard, Paul Eluard, Estaban Francîs, Gordon Onslow Ford, Jacques Herold, Georges Hugnet, Germaine Hugnet, Valentine Hugo, Jacqueline Lamba, Man Ray, André Masson, Anne “Pajarito” Matta, Roberto Matta (Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren), Joan Miró, Max Morise, Benjamin Péret, Robert Rius, Jeannette Tanguy, Yves Tanguy, Tristan Tzara, Raoul Ubac, Unknown, Remedios Varo
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Yves Tanguy Retrospective
June 1–September 30, 2001
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Yves Tanguy and Surrealism
Post-Modern Americans: A Selection
January 26–May 13, 2001
Artists: Gretchen Bender, Anne Doran, Mark Flood, Howard
Halle, William Harvey, Rachel Hecker, Sherry Levine, Robert Longo, Manual (Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill), Michael McCall, John McIntosh, Jack Pierson, Rachel Ranta, Cindy Sherman, Alexis Smith, Al Souza, Haim Steinbach, Lew Thomas, Robert Williams
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Pop Art: U.S./U.K. Connections, 1956-1966
January 26–May 13, 2001
Artists: Cliver Barker, Billy Al Bengston, Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, Patrick Caulfield, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Rosalyn Drexler, Joe Goode, Richard Hamilton, Phillip Hefferton, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Allen Jones, Edward Kienholz, R. B. Kitaj, Gerald Laing, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Phillips, Mel Ramos, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Ben Talbert, Joe Tilson, Andy Warhol, John Wesley, Tom Wesselmann
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2000
Cy Twombly: The Sculpture
September 20, 2000–January 7, 2001
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Cy Twombly: Die Skulptur = Cy Twombly: The Sculpture
From Above: Photographs of Houston by Alex S. MacLean
September 7, 2000–January 7, 2001
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Sharon Kopriva: Work 1986–1998
June 9–August 20, 2000
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Spirits of the Water: Native Art Collected on Expeditions to Alaska and British
Columbia, 1774-1910
May 5–August 13, 2000
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Lunar Landscapes: Unmanned Space Photography [FotoFest]
March 10 –June 4, 2000
Artist: Alex McCain
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John Chamberlain Sculpture: Selections from The Menil Collection and the Dia Art Foundation
January 28, 2000–April 2, 2000
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Willem de Kooning: In Process
January 28–March 12, 2000
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1999
Byzantion in Texas: Images and Objects
December 17, 1999–February 27, 2000
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Remembering Saul Steinberg
September 24–November 28, 1999
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Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990
September 10, 1999–January 2, 2000
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Surrealism + Witnesses: A Surrealist Wunderkammer
August 4, 1999–ongoing
Artists: Attributed to Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Max Ernst, Hector Guimard, Roberto Matta (Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren), Unattributed, objects from Australia, Europe, Madagascar, Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Polynesia, North America, Southeast Asia, South America
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17 Contemporaries: Artists from America, Italy, and Mexico—the Eighties
June 11–August 15, 1999
Artists: Dan Asher, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bill Beckly, Nike Bidlo, Saint Clair Cemin, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, Chuck Connelly, Julio Galán, Jonathan Lasker, Mimmo Paladino, Ira Richer, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Ray Smith, German Venegas
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William Eggleston Photographs: Then and Now
May 28–September 12, 1999
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The Hasselblad Award 1998: William Eggleston
room, an installation by Lars Lerup and Sohela Farokhi
March 19–June 6, 1999
Artists: Solhela Farokhi and Lars Lerup
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room: Lars Lerup, Sohela Farokhi
Utopia Observed: A Photographic Portrait of Joseph Cornell by Harry Roseman
January 29–April 4, 1999
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Joseph Cornell / Marcel Duchamp . . . in resonance
January 29–May 16, 1999
Artists: Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp
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Scale model of The Menil Collection galleries in the exhibitions department
1998
Dan Flavin Installation
November 19, 1998–ongoing
Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection
Dan Flavin/Donald Judd: Aspects of Color
November 19, 1998–January 24, 1999
Artists: Dan Flavin and Donald Judd
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The Elusive City: Photographs of Houston by Paul Hester
October 16, 1998–January 3, 1999
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René Magritte
August 4, 1998–January 15, 1999
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In and Out: Naive, Folk, and Self-Taught Artists from the Collection
June 12–October 11, 1998
Artists: Felipe Archuleta, Eddie Arning, André Bauchant, David Butler, Henry Darger, C. A. A. Dellschau, Howard Finster, Odelia A. Hurd, Frank Jones, Horace Pippin, I. E. Reiquer, Henri Rousseau, Johnnie (Reverend) Swearingen, Bill Traylor, Unattributed
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Mid-Century Drawings from the Collection
April 22–October 4, 1998
Artists: Max Ernst, Archile Gorky, René Magritte, Man Ray, Roberto Matta (Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren), Meret Oppenheim, Mark Rothko, Yves Tanguy
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Local Heroes [FotoFest]
February 27–March 29, 1998
Artists: Ben DeSoto, John Lee, George Hixson
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Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective
February 13–May 17, 1998
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1997
The Drawing Speaks: Works by Théophile Bra
December 12, 1997–March 29, 1998
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The Drawing Speaks: Théophile Bra: Works 1826-1855 = Le Dessin Parle: Théophile Bra: Oeuvres 1826-1855
Joseph Cornell
October 3, 1997–January 4, 1998
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Braque: The Late Works
April 30–August 31, 1997
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Georges Braque: Menil/Schlumberger Family Collections
April 25–November 30, 1997
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1996
Mark Rothko: The Chapel Commission
December 13, 1996–March 30, 1997
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Objects & Images: The Art of Assemblage in The Menil Collection
September 25–December 1, 1996
Artists: Gretchen Bender, Anne Doran, Howard Halle, Donald Lipski, Peter Nagy, Cindy Sherman, Haim Steinbach
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Louis Fernández
July 20, 1996–January 5, 1997
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Georges Rouault: The Inner Light
April 26–August 25, 1996
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Greek Icons After the Fall of Constantinople: Selections from the Roger Cabal Collection
March 15–June 2, 1996
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Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History* [FotoFest]
March 1–April 28, 1996
Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection
Eve Arnold: In Retrospect [FotoFest]
March 1–April 28, 1996
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Jasper Johns: The Sculptures
February 16–March 31, 1996
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1995
Edward Kienholz, 1954-1962
October 20, 1995–January 14, 1996 01
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Tsakli: Tibetan Ritual Paintings
September 8–October 22, 1995
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Tibet: The Pure Realm; Zanskar and Tibet: Photographs by Richard Gere
September 8–October 22, 1995
Artist: Richard Gere
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Greek Culture Exhibition
August 10–September 29, 1995
Central Library, Houston Public Library
William Christenberry
July 12–August 27, 1995
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Defining Space
May 24–September 24, 1995
Artists: James Lee Byars, John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein, Walter de Maria, Bruce Nauman, Louise Nevelson, Blinky Palermo, David Smith, Takis, Cy Twombly, objects from Africa, Egypt, Iberia, Greece
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Cy Twombly: A Retrospective
February 12–March 19, 1995
Cy Twombly Gallery, The Menil Collection
1994
Sherrie Levine: Newborn
December 9, 1994–January 15, 1995
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs of Houston, 1957 [FotoFest]
November 10–December 11, 1994
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Masterpieces of Bolivian Colonial Art: 16th to 18th Century
October 26, 1994–January 8, 1995
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Bolivian Masterpieces: Colonial Painting
Franz Kline: Black & White, 1950-1961
September 9–November 27, 1994
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Some American Drawings
July 22–October 16, 1994
Artists: Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Walter de Maria, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Rivers, Edward Ruscha, Saul Steinberg, Robert Wilson, Andy Warhol
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Photographs by Dimitrius Kyriazis
April 28–July 31, 1994
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African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia
April 28–July 31, 1994
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The New Generation: Contemporary Photography from Cuba
March 24–April 17, 1994
Artists: Pedro Abascal, Juan Carlos Alom, Max. Orlando Baños, Mario Díaz, Carlos Garacoia, Katia García Fayat, Carlos Mayol, Humberto Mayol, Eduardo Muñoz, José Ney, René Peña, Marta María Pérez, Manuel Piña, Rigoberto Romero, Alfredo Sarabia
Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection
A Piece of the Moon: Paul Klee in Texas Collections
March 9–June 5, 1994
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Rolywholyover: A Circus for Museum by John Cage
January 14–April 2, 1994
John Cage and over 170 artists
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Rolywholyover: A Circus/John Cage
1993
Art of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection
September 24, 1993–January 16, 1994
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Andy Warhol Portraits
September 24–December 19, 1993
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Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism
May 28–August 29, 1993
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
March 12–May 9, 1993
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Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Selected Projects
March 12–May 30, 1993
Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection
Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Exhibit Design
A Renaissance Installation of Tapestries, Objects, Paintings
January 28, 1993–February 6, 1994
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1992
Magritte
December 19, 1992–February 21, 1993
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Brice Marden: Cold Mountain
October 2–November 29, 1992
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Contemporary Art from the Marcia Simon Weisman Collection
September 25, 1992–January 10, 1993
Artists: Don Bachardy, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Joseph Cornell, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Joe Goode, Robert Graham, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Kasimir Malevich, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Ed Moses, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Pettibone, Jackson Pollock, Mel Ramos, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Clyfford Still, and Andy Warhol
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Prints from the Menil Collection
July 24–September 13, 1992
Artists: Leonhard Beck, Hans Burgkmair, Jacques Callot, Lucas Cranach, the Elder, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Van Leyden, Ippolito Salviani
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Six Artists
May 29–September 20, 1992
Artists: John Chamberlain, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Brice Marden, Jean Tinguely, Andy Warhol
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Ken Price
May 21–August 23, 1992
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Tadao Ando
March 20–May 24, 1992
Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection
Photographs by Constantin Brancusi [FotoFest]
March 20–June 28, 1992
The Menil Collection
Brancusi Photo Reflexion
Arnulf Rainer: Young Cross
January 31–April 26, 1992
The Menil Collection
1991
François de Nomé: Theatre of Light and Destruction
October 17, 1991–January 12, 1992
The Menil Collection
François de Nomé: Mysteries of a Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Painter
Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s
September 27, 1991–January 5, 1992
The Menil Collection
Object & Image: Recent Art from The Menil Collection
July 31–October 6, 1991
Artists: Gretchen Bender, Anne Doran, Howard Halle, Donald Lipski, Peter Nagy, Cindy Sherman, Haim Steinbach, Lew Thomas
The Menil Collection
Mark Rothko
May 9–June 30, 1991
The Menil Collection
Viewpoints: Mel Chin
April 28–August 25, 1991
The Menil Collection
Texas Selections from the Menil Collection; A Tribute to the University of Texas Medical Branch Centennial Celebration
March 9–April 21, 1991
Artists: Forrest Bess, Bob Camblin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gene Charlton, Mel Chin, Henry Ray Clark, Ben Culwell, C. A. A. Dellschau, Vanzant Driver, Carter Ernst, Paul Kittelson, Roy Fridge, Ernest C. Hewitt, Guy Johnson, Frank Jones, Jim Love, Danny Lyon, Billy McCune, David McManaway, John Peters, James Reaben, William Steen, Richard Stout, Johnnie Swearingen, Michael Tracy, Bob Wade
Galveston Art Center, Galveston
Dan Flavin: Three "monuments" for V. Tatlin
February 6–May 5, 1991
The Menil Collection
Jean-Pierre Raynaud
January 26–March 10, 1991
The Menil Collection
1990
James Reaben
December 1, 1990–January 20, 1991
The Menil Collection
Josef Albers
September 27, 1990–January 27, 1991
The Menil Collection
Joseph Beuys: Works from the Dia Art Foundation
June 28, 1990–January 6, 1991
The Menil Collection
The Birth of Venus: Neolithic & Chalcolithic Antiquities from Cyprus
April 27–September 16, 1990
The Menil Collection
Cyprus Before the Bronze Age: Art of the Chalcolithic Period
Jay DeFeo: Works on Paper 1951-1989
April 5–May 27, 1990
The Menil Collection
Marc Riboud: Photographs of Home and Abroad
February 15–March 25, 1990
The Menil Collection
1989
Max Ernst: Selections from The Menil Family Collections
October 27, 1989–October 28, 1990
The Menil Collection
Cy Twombly
September 7, 1989–March 11, 1990
The Menil Collection
Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray
June 28–September 17, 1989
The Menil Collection
Blinky Palermo: To The People of New York City
June 7–August 13, 1989
The Menil Collection
Works on Paper by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Larry Rivers
April 14, 1989–February 4, 1990
Artists: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers
The Menil Collection
Terminal Privileges: Michael Tracy
February 24–May 14, 1989
The Menil Collection
René Magritte: Late Works
January 27–June 4, 1989
The Menil Collection
1988
The Sarofim Collection of Coptic Art
November 12, 1988–February 28, 1989
The Menil Collection
Spirituality in the Christian East: Greek, Slavic, and Russian Icons from The Menil Collection
November 12, 1988–June 4, 1989
The Menil Collection
Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years
October 22, 1988–January 8, 1989
Artists: Winslow Homer and Solomon Eytinge, Jr., C. E. F. Hillen, Thomas Nast, William Ludwell Sheppard, Unattributed
The Menil Collection
Selected Prints by Callot, Della Bella, and Goya
October 21, 1988–April 2, 1989
Artists: Jacques Callot, Stefano Della Bella, Francisco Goya
The Menil Collection
Andy Warhol: Death and Disasters
October 21, 1988–January 8, 1989
The Menil Collection
Richard Jackson: Installations 1970–1988
July 21, 1988–January 14, 1990
Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection
Robert Longo
May 20–September 24, 1988
The Menil Collection
David Salle
May 20–September 4, 1988
The Menil Collection
Photographs: Henri Cartier-Bresson Walker Evans [FotoFest]
March 2–May 8, 1988
Artists: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans
The Menil Collection
Men's Lives
March 2–May 1, 1988
Artists: Dan Budnik, Adelaide de Menil, Martine Franck, Jean Gaumy, Evelyn Hofer, Lynn Johnson, Koug Kuntz, Danny Lyon, Gilles Peress
The Menil Collection
Peter Matthiessen, Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork
Texas Art: An exhibition selected from The Menil Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Trustees' Collections of the Contemporary Arts Museum
February 10–Mary 15, 1988
Artists: John Alexander, David Bates, Forrest Bess, Derek Boshier, Jack Boynton, Mel Chin, Ben L. Culwell, Jeff Delude, Chuck Dugan, Vernon Fisher, Joseph Glasco, Roy Fridge, Bert Long, Jim Love, Ken Luce, David McManaway, Melissa Miller, Gael Stack, Earl Staley, Richard Stout, James Surls, Michael Tracy, Bob Wade, Dick Wray
Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection
1987
Marcel Duchamp/Fountain
December 24, 1987–October 2, 1988
Artists: Marcel Duchamp, Robert Kulicke, Peter Nagy, Bert Stern, Alfred Stieglitz
The Menil Collection
Genesi di un Progetto: Piano's Rehabilitation of Palladio's Basilica at Vicenza
October 13–November 1, 1987
Artist: Renzo Piano
The Menil Collection
Warhol Shadows
June 7, 1987–January 31, 1988
Artist: Andy Warhol
Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection
Ben L. Culwell: Adrenalin Hour
June 7–November 29, 1987
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John Chamberlain
June 7, 1987–April 3, 1988
The Menil Collection
Sculpture: John Chamberlain, 1970s & 1980s
The Menil Collection
June 7, 1987–ongoing
The Menil Collection
The Menil Collection: A Selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era