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Current Exhibitions
Oct 11, 2024 – Apr 19, 2025
Main Building
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly
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
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil
Nov 2, 2023
Public Program
When The Art Speaks: Outspoken Bean, Russell Guess, Adriana, Myaan, and Samiyah
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Nov 3, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Interactive Art, Cylinder Seals, and Rolling Impressions
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Nov 4, 2023
Public Program
Studio Practice at the Menil with Nestor Topchy
Garage at 1509 Branard St.
12–4 p.m.
Nov 9, 2023
Public Program
Artist Talk: Robert Gober, Reflections on “The Meat Wagon”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 12, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Michelle White on Chryssa
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Nov 17, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Chryssa & Neon
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Nov 30, 2023
Public Program
On Drawing: Scores for Elsewhere: Experiments in Sound, Line, and Consciousness
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Dec 1, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Roberto Matta Foyer Installation
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Dec 4, 2023
Public Program
Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part I
Main Building
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Dec 5, 2023
Public Program
Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part II
Main Building
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Dec 6, 2023
Public Program
Kyle Chayka: Minimalism, Between Art and Life
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Dec 9, 2023
Public Program
Book Reading: Andrey Kurkov, “Grey Bees”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 10, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Hanne Darboven
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Dec 11, 2023
Public Program
Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part III
Main Building
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Dec 15, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Menil Archives, Ephemera, and More
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jan 11
Public Program
Resonant Beauty: Mathematical Foundations in Music with Loop38
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Jan 12
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: “Hanne Darboven—Writing Time”
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Jan 18
Public Program
Artist Talk: Nari Ward
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Jan 20
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy”
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Jan 21
Public Program
Curator Talk: Danielle Smotherman Bennett on Shining Light on the Past, Chryssa, and Ancient Art
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Jan 26
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Medieval at the Menil
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Feb 1
Public Program
Marion Barthelme Lecture: Jenny Saville on Cy Twombly
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Feb 2
Public Program
Dance Party at the Menil
Menil Drawing Institute
7–10 p.m.
Feb 3
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “Chryssa & New York”
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 6
Menil Contemporaries
Cocktails with a Curator: “Longing, Grief, and Spirituality: Art Since 1980”
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Feb 8
Public Program
Sign of the Times: A Conversation on Neon and Chryssa
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Feb 9
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Drawings to Love
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Feb 15
Public Program
Prudence Peiffer: The Slip
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 22
Membership
Menil by Moonlight and “Janet Sobel: All-Over” Member Preview
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Feb 23
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Paintings Conservation with Desi Dijkema
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Feb 25
Public Program
Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Marc Bauer
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Mar 1
Public Program
Film Screening: “Geometry of Light”
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Mar 7
Public Program
Conversation: Helen Molesworth and Michelle White on “Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Mar 8
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Encounters
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Mar 21
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview: “Ruth Asawa Through Line”
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening: “Ruth Asawa Through Line”
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8:30 p.m.
Mar 22
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Janet Sobel All-Over
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Main Building
3–7 p.m.
Mar 23
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “Ruth Asawa Through Line”
Menil Drawing Institute
3–4 p.m.
Mar 26
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Spring Mixer
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Mar 27
Public Program
Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Public Program
Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Apr 4
Public Program
Artist Talk: Nancy Grossman
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Apr 5
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Out of Storage—Cypriot Art from the 1st Millennium BCE
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Apr 6
Public Program
Neighborhood Community Day
Main Building
1–5 p.m.
Apr 9
Menil Society
Menil Society Spring Cocktails
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Apr 11
Public Program
Lecture: “Durable Fragility”: Ruth Asawa and the Materiality of Line
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Apr 14
Public Program
Curator Talk: Natalie Dupêcher on Janet Sobel
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Apr 18
Special Event
Studio Menil Presents: Alphabet Soup
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
7–11:30 p.m.
Apr 19
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Kelly Montana on “Wall Drawing Series: Marc Bauer”
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Apr 24
Public Program
Connecting Lines: Janet Sobel and Abstract Expressionism
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Apr 25
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview: “Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions”
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening: “Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions”
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
May 2
Public Program
Artist Talk: Michelle Stuart
Online
12–1 p.m.
May 3
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Paul Davis on Arts of the Pacific Islands
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
WITS (Writers in the Schools) Watchful Eye Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 9
Public Program
Panel Discussion: Ruth Asawa, Art & Life
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
May 18
Public Program
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)
Main Building
8:30–10:30 p.m.
May 19
Public Program
Curator Talk: Edouard Kopp on Ruth Asawa
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
May 23
Public Program
The Modern Art Notes Podcast Live on “Janet Sobel: All-Over”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 24
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Edouard Kopp on Ruth Asawa
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
May 30
Public Program
Michelle Donnelly: Stamped, Rubbed, Imprinted: Drawing and Impressions of Place
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Jun 1
Public Program
Workshop: Paper Folding Workshop with Joan Son (Beginning Basics)
Menil Drawing Institute
9:30–11 a.m.
Jun 7
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: The Science of Conservation with Cory Rogge
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jun 8
Public Program
Film Screening: Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood
Main Building Lawn
7:30–10:30 p.m.
Jun 11
Membership
Meet the Menil: New Member Reception
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Jun 21
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Menil Library Special Collection Spotlight with Donna Török-Oberholtzer
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jun 29
Public Program
Workshop: Paper Folding Workshop with Joan Son (Traditional & Classic)
Menil Drawing Institute
9:30–11 a.m.
Jul 13
Public Program
Postponed: Workshop: Paper Folding with Joan Son (Containers & Geometrics)
Menil Drawing Institute
9:30–11 a.m.
Jul 20
Public Program
Moon Party
Main Building
8–10:30 p.m.
Jul 21
Public Program
Curator Talk: Sophie Asakura on On Kawara
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Jul 26
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Portraits of Women from the Collection with Michelle White
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Current Exhibitions
Oct 11, 2024 – Apr 19, 2025
Main Building
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly
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
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil