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

Oct 6, 2022

Artist Talk: Samuel Fosso in conversation with Mark Sealy

Oct 7, 2022

Member Noontime Talk: Clare Elliott on the Byzantine Gallery

Oct 8, 2022

DACAMERA Concert: Jazz on the Lawn

Main Building Lawn

Oct 13, 2022

Party in the Park

This is a ticketed event

Oct 16, 2022

Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Michael Heizer

Menil Drawing Institute

Oct 19, 2022

Artist Talk: Mel Bochner

Menil Drawing Institute

Oct 21, 2022

Member Noontime Talk: Capturing the Collection with Caroline Philippone

Oct 28, 2022

Menil Society Preview for “Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work”

Member Opening of “Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work”

Oct 30, 2022

Sounds to Live By: Outdoor Music

Main Building Lawn

Nov 2, 2022

Menil Contemporaries

On Display

Menil Drawing Institute

Nov 3, 2022

In Conversation: Michael Harrison on Walter De Maria and Music

Nov 4, 2022

Member Noontime Talk: Thompson and Takis Foyer Installation

Nov 5, 2022

Michael Harrison Performance: “Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation” (2007)

Nov 11, 2022

Film Screening: Al Santana’s “Voices of the Gods”

Nov 12, 2022

DACAMERA Concert: Stop, Look, and Listen!

Nov 13, 2022

Curator Talk: Paul R. Davis on Samuel Fosso

Nov 17, 2022

Menil Society Preview for “Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself”

Menil Drawing Institute

Exhibition Opening Event

Member Opening of “Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself”

Menil Drawing Institute

Nov 18, 2022

Member Noontime Talk: Works on Paper with Kirsten Marples

Menil Drawing Institute

Panel Discussion: Cataloguing Robert Motherwell’s Drawings

Menil Drawing Institute

Dec 3, 2022

35th Anniversary Gala

Menil Collection South Lawn

This is a ticketed event

Dec 8, 2022

Edmund Carpenter and “Witnesses to a Surrealist Vision”: A Look Behind the Curtain

Dec 9, 2022

Member Noontime Talk: Edouard Kopp on Robert Motherwell

Menil Drawing Institute

Dec 11, 2022

Curator Talk: Michelle White on Walter De Maria

Dec 13, 2022

DACAMERA Alumni Artists in Concert

Dec 16, 2022

Member Noontime Talk: Michelle White on Walter De Maria

Jan 8

Curator Talk: Edouard Kopp on Robert Motherwell

Menil Drawing Institute

Jan 12

Conversation: Artists on Robert Motherwell

Menil Drawing Institute

Jan 13

Member Noontime Talk: Natural History: Early-Printed Books in the Menil Collection Library

Jan 18

In Dialogue: “The Painted Prince”

Jan 24

Menil Contemporaries

Cocktails with a Curator: Modern and Contemporary Inside Look

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

Jan 27

Member Noontime Talk: Mina Gaber on Matting and Framing

Feb 2

Lecture: Donna De Salvo on Walter De Maria

Feb 5

Curator Talk: Natalie Dupecher on Mildred Thompson and Takis

Feb 7

Menil by Moonlight

Feb 9

Lecture: Edith Devaney on Robert Motherwell

Menil Drawing Institute

Feb 10

Member Noontime Talk: Ancient Art with Danielle Bennett

Feb 16

“Art of the Cameroon Grassfields, A Living Heritage in Houston” Exhibition Reception

Feb 21

Menil Society Conservator’s Choice - Reconstructed through Drawings: An Afternoon with Warhol

Menil Drawing Institute

Feb 24

Member Noontime Talk: Paul R. Davis on “Art of the Cameroon Grassfields, A Living Heritage in Houston”

West African Film Festival Double Feature Screening

Main Building Lawn

Mar 2

Artist Talk: Hervé Youmbi in Conversation with Silvia Forni

Mar 4

Performance: A Day of Meaningless Work

Mar 10

Member Noontime Talk: The Conservation of “Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work”

Mar 12

Curator Talk: Paul Davis on “Art of the Cameroon Grassfields, A Living Heritage in Houston”

Mar 15

Reading Paper – A Sensory Experience

Menil Drawing Institute

Mar 23

Menil Society Preview: “The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps”

Member Opening: “The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps”

Mar 24

Member Noontime Talk: Lee Krasner’s Life Drawings with Isabel Bird

Menil Drawing Institute

Artists on Walter Hopps: Larry Bell, George Herms, and Ed Ruscha

Mar 25

DACAMERA Concert: Stop, Look, and Listen!

Mar 29

Menil-Themed Trivia Night and Public Beer Launch

Eureka Heights Brewery

Apr 1

Neighborhood Community Day

Apr 5

Lecture with Paul R. Davis: A “Mabuh” Headdress at the Menil

Apr 6

Menil Contemporaries

Spring Mixer

Apr 11

Spring Cocktails

Apr 13

Artist Talk: Robert Longo

Apr 14

Member Noontime Talk: Clare Elliott on “The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps”

Apr 16

Curator Talk: Clare Elliott on “The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps”

Apr 20

“Hyperreal: Gray Foy” Exhibition Reception

Menil Drawing Institute

Apr 26

Drawn from the Classroom: Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow Lecture: Isabel Bird

Menil Drawing Institute

Apr 27

Dr. Victoria Massie: Refracting Biological Vision: The Poetics of Genetic Cameroonian Ancestry

Apr 28

Member Noontime Talk: Sophie Asakura on Byzantine Icons

May 4

In Conversation: Art Spiegelman on Si Lewen and Graphic Novels

May 5

Member Noontime Talk: Suzan Frecon Drawings

Menil Drawing Institute

May 6

BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)

8:30–10:30 p.m.

May 12

WITS (Writers in the Schools) Reading

May 13

Advanced Photography Workshop with Houston Center for Photography

11 a.m.–4 p.m.

May 18

“Seeking the Human Spirit” Performances by Houston Grand Opera

May 19

Member Noontime Talk: “Hyperreal: Gray Foy”

Menil Drawing Institute

May 21

Curator Talk: Kirsten Marples on “Hyperreal: Gray Foy”

Menil Drawing Institute

Jun 6

Meet the Menil: New Member Reception

Jun 8

Dr. Joshua Furman Lecture: Antisemitism in the Archive: Documenting Prejudice in Houston Jewish History

Menil Drawing Institute

Jun 9

Member Noontime Talk: Surrealism

Jun 15

Book Talk: “Artists We’ve Known”

Jun 22

Morgan-Menil Fellow Lecture: Brian T. Leahy

Menil Drawing Institute

Jun 23

Member Noontime Talk: “Si Lewen: The Parade”

Menil Drawing Institute

Jun 24

Community Photography Workshop with Houston Center for Photography

11 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Jun 25

Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Si Lewen

Menil Drawing Institute

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