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Over the next 12 months, Menil members will be invited to 15 exhibition openings, 38 staff-led tours, and 12 unique parties. Become a member during Membership Month to learn more, do more, and see more at the Menil Collection.

In the first half of the 20th century, #MarcelDuchamp redefined what we consider art and what it means to be an artist. Many of his ideas return, transformed, in the work of #JeffKoons, born when Duchamp was 68 years old and whose own career lit up the art world of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. “Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and … Read more

New from #Menil Publications: This book is a breathtaking exploration of one of artist #CyTwombly’s largest paintings, the second version of “Treatise on the Veil” (1970). This handsomely produced book features three essays that examine the painting along with related drawings in relation to Twombly’s oeuvre, contemporaneous the artist cited … Read more

Collection Close-Up: The Graphic Work of Dorothea Tanning “reveals her quirky individualism and consistent vision,” writes Molly Glentzer. “This is Tanning’s own world — a subverted, often funny place where quirky animals are part of the landscape but male figures are conspicuously absent.”