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Go behind the scenes with Director Rebecca Rabinow and curators Michelle White and Paul R. Davis to learn more about the process of reinstalling an entire museum building over the course of several months.

“An unprecedented new home for modern drawings opens in Houston” by Christopher Knight introduces readers to the new Menil Drawing Institute building and inaugural exhibition The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns, which are now open to the public.

“As with origami, in which paper becomes sculptural when it is folded and bent, the design and materials here create a building where architecture and art come together."—Josephine Minutillo on the new Menil Drawing Institute building

“Can a building ‘be’ a drawing?” asks Molly Glentzer in her article Four aspects of the new Menil Drawing Institute that showcase the art form.

WSJ. Magazine spotlights the Menil’s current initiatives including our renovated main building and the soon-to-open Menil Drawing Institute, while diving deeply into the eclectic tastes and social activism of Menil Collection patrons Dominique and John de Menil.

Houston Chronicle art critic Molly Glentzer outlines how to get reacquainted with the Menil Collection main building, which has been completely reinstallated with artworks from the permanent collection and promised gifts.

Menil Collection times new Jasper Johns catalogue raisonné to Drawing Institute opening. Read about the forthcoming catalogue and exhibition from Victoria Stapley-Brown in The Art Newspaper.

“It’s all very subtle. So while we have redone every inch of this place, everything was done with full respect for the spirit of the Menil. It will appear fresh and clean, but the feeling won’t change. It will just feel magical,” said Menil Director Rebecca Rabinow in an interview about the reopening of the Menil’s main building.