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Current Exhibitions
On view through August 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo
Jan 24 – Jul 13, 2025
Main Building
Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight
Apr 2 – Aug 3, 2025
Main Building
Foyer Installation: René Magritte
Mar 21 – Aug 10, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
What drawing can be: four responses
Jan 29 – Oct 19, 2025
Main Building
Animals, Monsters, and Creatures from the Collection
Main Building
A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil
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.
Feb 17, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Menil Architecture Records
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Feb 23, 2017
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of The Beginning of Everything
Main Building
5:30–6:30 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.
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 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 31, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on The Beginning of Everything
Main Building
12–1 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 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 28, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Surrealist Techniques
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
May 2, 2017
Membership
Friends of the Library Reception
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
May 5, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Max Neuhaus Chimes
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
May 12, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Between Land and Sea
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
May 19, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Monumental Sculpture of Ambrym Island
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jun 9, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on The Beginning of Everything
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jun 13, 2017
Membership
“Meet the Menil” Reception for New Members
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Jul 14, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Between Land and Sea
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Aug 25, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Inspired by the Pencil of Nature: An Introduction to 19th Century Paper-based Photographic Holdings of the Menil Collection
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 8, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Potent Figures: Women in Sculpture from Africa and Madagascar
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 12, 2017
Menil Contemporaries
Cocktails with a Curator: Thirty Works for Thirty Years
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Sep 15, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Ellsworth Kelly at the Menil
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 22, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Exploring John Chamberlain’s American Tableau
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 29, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Ethics and Treatments in Conservation
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 6, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Slow Art and/or the Sublime: Zarina, Newman or Rothko
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 12, 2017
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Oct 13, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on The Many Lives of Objects: Arts of the Ancient World at the Menil
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 20, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Victor Brauner
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 27, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Text as Catalyst: Artists’ Books inspired by Literature
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Current Exhibitions
On view through August 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo
Jan 24 – Jul 13, 2025
Main Building
Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight
Apr 2 – Aug 3, 2025
Main Building
Foyer Installation: René Magritte
Mar 21 – Aug 10, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
What drawing can be: four responses
Jan 29 – Oct 19, 2025
Main Building
Animals, Monsters, and Creatures from the Collection
Main Building
A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil