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Watch past online programs and in-person lectures on the Menil’s YouTube channel.

May 3, 2021

Menil Contemporaries

Menil Contemporaries, Framing the Collection

May 4, 2021

On Drawing: Paper, A Foundation to Drawing with Jan Burandt and Cathleen Baker

May 6, 2021

Menil Society Spring Cocktails

Menil Drawing Institute

May 8, 2021

Outdoor Music: Stop, Look and Listen! Family Concert

Main Building Lawn

May 11, 2021

Menil Society Conservator’s Choice: Inside the Conservation Lab

May 12, 2021

Artist Talk: Roni Horn in Conversation with Michelle White

May 14, 2021

Members Virtual Noontime Talk: Object Status: All the Things in a Museum

May 15, 2021

Outdoor Screening: BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)

Main Building Lawn

8:30–10:30 p.m.

May 18, 2021

Menil Contemporaries

Menil Contemporaries Spring Mixer

May 20, 2021

Menil Society Preview of “Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s”

Menil Drawing Institute

May 21, 2021

Member Reception of Dream Monuments

Menil Drawing Institute

May 24, 2021

DACAMERA Stop, Look and Listen! Concert: Celebrating Rothko

10 a.m.–8 p.m.

May 26, 2021

Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow Lecture: Saskia Verlaan

Jun 3, 2021

Menil Society Reception for “Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon”

Jun 5, 2021

“Specters of Noon” Community Day

Main Building Lawn

Jun 11, 2021

Members Virtual Noontime Talk: Greek Vase Painting Techniques: Objects in the Menil Collection

Jun 16, 2021

Artist Talk: Alice Aycock

Jun 20, 2021

Sounds to Live By: Sun Songs

Main Building Lawn

Jun 22, 2021

In Dialogue: On an Ancient Votive Figure

Jul 9, 2021

Members Noontime Talk: Dream Monuments

Menil Drawing Institute

Jul 29, 2021

Menil Society Preview of “Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes”

Member Opening of “Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes”

Aug 12, 2021

Menil Contemporaries

Menil Contemporaries Cocktails with a Curator: Dan Flavin at Richmond Hall

Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue

Aug 18, 2021

Artist Talk: Ken Lum on Monuments

Aug 20, 2021

Member Noontime Talk: Modern & Contemporary

Aug 24, 2021

Texas Talks Art: Rick Lowe with Michelle White

Aug 27, 2021

Land Mark Land Scape

West Main Green

Sep 1, 2021

In Dialogue: On the Chimú Prisoner Textile

Sep 9, 2021

Menil Society Preview of “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s”

Member Opening of “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s”

Sep 10, 2021

Member Noontime Talk: Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes

Public Opening of “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s”

Sep 24, 2021

Member Noontime Talk: Measuring Color Change

Oct 7, 2021

Menil Contemporaries

Menil Contemporaries Partner Collection Visit: The Lancaster Hotel

The Lancaster Hotel

Oct 8, 2021

Member Noontime Talk: 18th Century Paintings and Rare Books

Oct 9, 2021

Da Camera: Stop, Look, and Listen!

Main Building Lawn

Oct 15, 2021

Zoila Mendoza Lecture: The Folkloric Arts of the Peruvian Andes

Oct 16, 2021

“Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes” Community Day

Main Building Lawn

Oct 22, 2021

Member Noontime Talk: Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s

Ariana Reines Poetry Reading

Oct 28, 2021

Party in the Park

This is a ticketed event

Oct 29, 2021

Menil Society Preview of “Draw Like a Machine” and “Spatial Awareness”

Menil Drawing Institute

Member Opening of “Draw Like a Machine” and “Spatial Awareness”

Menil Drawing Institute

Nov 2, 2021

Hilton Als Lecture: Part 1 of 2

Nov 4, 2021

Hilton Als Lecture: Part 2 of 2

Nov 5, 2021

Member Noontime Talk: Draw Like a Machine: Pop Art, 1952-1975

Menil Drawing Institute

Nov 9, 2021

Menil Society Curator’s Choice: Of Gods and Giants - A Wine Cooler in the Menil

Nov 10, 2021

Filming Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely: A Screening and Conversation with Francois de Menil

Nov 13, 2021

DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen!

Nov 17, 2021

Artist Talk: Mel Chin

Nov 19, 2021

Member Noontime Talk: Exploring the Human Form with Cycladic Figures

Dec 9, 2021

Menil Society Preview of “Bruce Davidson’s Photographs”

Public Opening of “Bruce Davidson’s Photographs”

Dec 10, 2021

Member Noontime Talk: Surrealism

Dec 11, 2021

“Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s:” Art, Music, and a Monster Movie

Main Building Lawn

Dec 13, 2021

“On Freedom”: A Reading and Conversation with Maggie Nelson

Dec 15, 2021

On Drawing: Trends in Contemporary Drawing

Dec 17, 2021

Member Noontime Talk: The Conservation of Niki de Saint Phalle’s Shooting Paintings

Jan 14, 2022

Virtual Member Noontime Talk: Exploring Robert Gober’s Lasting Monuments to Ephemera

Jan 23, 2022

Fool in the Fairytale: Niki de Saint Phalle Films

Feb 1, 2022

Menil Contemporaries

Menil Contemporaries Cocktails with a Curator: “Bruce Davidson’s Photographs”

The Menil Collection

1533 Sul Ross St.
Houston, TX 77006

713-525-9400

Wed–Sun 11am–7pm

Free Admission

Wed–Sun 11am–7pm

Free Admission

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