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Current Exhibitions
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Fragments of Memory
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms
On view through August 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo
Mar 16 – Nov 10, 2024
Main Building
Portraits of Women from the Collection
Jun 15, 2023 – Oct 14, 2024
Main Building
Longing, Grief, and Spirituality: Art Since 1980
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil
Aug 5, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on The Pathway to Conservation
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Aug 12, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on As Essential as Dreams
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Aug 24, 2016
Public Program
Visionary and Self-Taught Art in the Community
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Aug 25, 2016
Menil Contemporaries
An Evening at Smither Park
Smither Park
6:30–8 p.m.
Aug 26, 2016
Public Program
Fabiola
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
7–8 p.m.
Aug 31, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Sessions: Music
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Sep 7, 2016
Public Program
Shedding Light
Aurora Picture Show
2442 Bartlett St.
7:30–9 p.m.
Sep 9, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Modern and Contemporary Drawings
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Menil Drawing Institute Conversation and Lecture Series Roni Horn and David Breslin | The Primary Activity
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Sep 15, 2016
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of Picasso The Line
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Members’ Opening of Picasso The Line
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Sep 16, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Image is Everything
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Picasso’s Lines and Drawing’s Possibilities
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Sep 23, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on the Menil Building
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Houston Grand Opera Song Cycle on the Magnificent Pretty Boy, Henry Ray Clark
Main Building
5–6:30 p.m.
Sep 24, 2016
Public Program
Houston Grand Opera Song Cycle on the Magnificent Pretty Boy, Henry Ray Clark
Main Building
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Sep 26, 2016
Public Program
The Modern Body: Picasso and the Ballet Russes
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Sep 28, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: From the Archives
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Sep 29, 2016
Public Program
Exhibiting and Curating Self-Taught Art
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Sep 30, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on As Essential as Dreams
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 5, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Sessions: From the Archives
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Oct 7, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Twombly and Conservation
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
12–1 p.m.
Oct 8, 2016
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston STOP, LOOK & LISTEN! | Celebrating Jazz’s New Orleans Roots
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Oct 12, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Sessions: Simone Swan
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Oct 14, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Picasso The Line
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 21, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on African American Print Culture in the Menil Library Special Collections
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 23, 2016
Special Event
Who R U? Menil Children’s Costume Party
Menil Park
This is a ticketed event
3–5 p.m.
Oct 26, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Meditation
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Public Program
One Whom Some Were Following: The Steins and Picasso Before Fame
Main Building
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Oct 28, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on The Fabiola Project
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
12–1 p.m.
Nov 2, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Warhol and the de Menils
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Nov 4, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Introduction to Painting Conservation
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Trevor Stark on Picasso
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 5, 2016
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Fund Park Crawl
Menil Park
This is a ticketed event
3–5 p.m.
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston STOP, LOOK & LISTEN! | Picasso’s Paris
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 7, 2016
Corporate Partners
Corporate Conversations
Main Building
11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Nov 9, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Poetry
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Nov 10, 2016
Public Program
House Is A House Is A House Discussion and Book Signing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 11, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Modern and Contemporary
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Menil Drawing Institute Conversation and Lecture Series Terrance Hayes | The Syntax of Drawing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 12, 2016
Public Program
Houston Cinema Arts Festival: Amie Siegel Artist Talk and Screening
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Nov 14, 2016
Special Event
Picasso and Music | Da Camera of Houston
Main Building
This is a ticketed event
7:30–10 p.m.
Nov 15, 2016
Special Event
Picasso and Music | Da Camera of Houston
Main Building
This is a ticketed event
7:30–10 p.m.
Nov 17, 2016
Exhibition Opening Event
Public Opening of Holy Barbarians
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Nov 18, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on the Physical Nature of Drawings
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Nov 30, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Meditation on Light
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Dec 2, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Meanings in Materials: The Arts of Africa
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Dec 8, 2016
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Holiday Party
Main Building
This is a ticketed event
7–10 p.m.
Dec 9, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Sunset
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Dec 14, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Projectionist Notes
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Dec 15, 2016
Public Program
Seeing Sol LeWitt Lecture
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 16, 2016
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Holy Barbarians
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Mexico City in the 1980s and ‘90s
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
7–8 p.m.
Jan 6, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Picasso the Line
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jan 7, 2017
Public Program
Paul Yamazaki on City Lights Books and Beat Culure
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 13, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on the Menil Building
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
MDI Conversation and Lecture Series with Amy Sillman
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 17, 2017
Menil Contemporaries
Cocktails with a Curator: Holy Barbarians Beat Culture on the West Coast
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Jan 20, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Surrealism in the Menil Collection
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jan 24, 2017
Public Program
Alias: Art and Identity in Cold War Hollywood
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 27, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Dan Flavin
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
12–1 p.m.
Jan 28, 2017
Public Program
Museum Experience Zone 1
Main Building
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 2, 2017
Public Program
Menil Neighborhood Night
Main Building
5–9 p.m.
Feb 3, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Modern & Contemporary
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Feb 9, 2017
Membership
Menil by Moonlight
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Feb 10, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Multispectral Imaging for Conservation Documentation
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Robert Rauschenberg: Making an Exhibition
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 11, 2017
Public Program
Bruce Conner: An Assemblage of Films
Aurora Picture Show
2442 Bartlett St.
7–8:30 p.m.
Feb 12, 2017
Public Program
Bruce Conner: An Assemblage of Films
Aurora Picture Show
2442 Bartlett St.
3:30–5 p.m.
Feb 16, 2017
Public Program
Of the World: In Conversation with Artist Amahigueré Dolo
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 17, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Menil Architecture Records
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Red Currant
Byzantine Fresco Chapel
4011 Yupon Street
7–8 p.m.
Feb 18, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 23, 2017
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of The Beginning of Everything
Main Building
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Exhibition Opening Event
Opening of The Beginning of Everything
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Feb 24, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Holy, Yes. Barbarians, ? Let’s talk: Semina-l Poetry and Art
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Terry Winters Notes on Drawing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 25, 2017
Public Program
Richard Shiff on The Beginning of Everything
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Mar 3, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on ReCollecting Dogon
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Mar 7, 2017
Menil Contemporaries
Cocktails with a Curator: The Beginning of Everything
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Mar 10, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Cy Twombly and Poetry
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
12–1 p.m.
Mar 12, 2017
Public Program
paratext: Performance by Alabama Song
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
4–6 p.m.
Mar 17, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Exhibition Design
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Mar 21, 2017
Membership
Menil at 30
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Mar 23, 2017
Public Program
Gary Vikan Reading and Book Signing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Mar 30, 2017
Special Event
Men of Menil
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
This is a ticketed event
7–10 p.m.
Mar 31, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on The Beginning of Everything
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Apr 1, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen! ReCollecting Dogon
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Apr 3, 2017
Menil Contemporaries
Spring Mixer
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Apr 7, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on the Outdoor Sculptures
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Apr 10, 2017
Public Program
Paris Opera Ballet Étoile Marie-Agnès Gillot Dance Performance Choreographed by Carolyn Carlson
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Apr 13, 2017
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of Between Land and Sea: Artists of the Coenties Slip
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member’s Opening of Between Land and Sea: Artists of the Coenties Slip
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Apr 20, 2017
Menil Society
Spring Cocktails
Menil House
6–8 p.m.
Apr 21, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Spectrophotometry
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Apr 27, 2017
Public Program
Masks and Modernité: Dogon Now
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Apr 28, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Surrealist Techniques
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Current Exhibitions
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Fragments of Memory
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms
On view through August 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo
Mar 16 – Nov 10, 2024
Main Building
Portraits of Women from the Collection
Jun 15, 2023 – Oct 14, 2024
Main Building
Longing, Grief, and Spirituality: Art Since 1980
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil