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Watch Past Programs
Jun 22
Public Program
Book Release Reception: Untitled Trip by Ryan Hollaway
Menil Bookstore
5–7 p.m.
Jun 8
Public Program
Menil Bookstore Jewelry Trunk Show: Ludmila Ivanova and Kaneem Smith
Menil Bookstore
5–7 p.m.
May 16
Public Program
The Watchful Eye: A Writers in the Schools Student Reading
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
7–8 p.m.
May 3
Public Program
Riyaaz Qawwali Concert
Main Building Lawn
7–8 p.m.
Apr 15
Public Program
Gideon Alorwoyie Music and Dance Performance
Main Building Lawn
4–6 p.m.
Apr 14
Public Program
Da Camera Stop, Look and Listen! Beethoven for All
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
3–4 p.m.
Apr 13
Public Program
Vivian L. Smith Foundation Symposium
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
7–9 p.m.
Apr 6
Public Program
Aurora Picture Show BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)
Main Building
8:30–10:30 p.m.
Mar 27
Public Program
Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John De Menil
Rothko Chapel
This is a ticketed event
7–8 p.m.
Mar 25
Public Program
Merce Cunningham Dance and Concert, Arrivals and Departures: Cage, Cunningham, and Johns
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
This is a ticketed event
1–2 p.m.
Mar 16
Public Program
Dickie Landry Concert at Byzantine Fresco Chapel
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
7–8 p.m.
Mar 10
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston: Stop, Look and Listen! Family Concert
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
2–3 p.m.
Mar 7
Public Program
Mary Jacobus, On Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
7–8 p.m.
Mar 1
Public Program
Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement, Reem Fadda Lecture
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
6:30–7:30 p.m.
Feb 24
Public Program
Da Camera Stop, Look and Listen! Reflections on Mona Hatoum’s Terra Infirma Exhibition
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 22
Public Program
Night at the Menil
Main Building
5–9 p.m.
Public Program
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Menil Library
12–7 p.m.
Feb 21
Public Program
Mary Wemple Words & Art Poetry Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 9
Public Program
Marion Barthelme Lecture with Rachael Z. DeLue on Kara Walker
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 4
Public Program
Sehba Sarwar On Belonging
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
2–4 p.m.
Feb 3
Public Program
Sehba Sarwar On Belonging
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
2–4 p.m.
Jan 24
Public Program
Rebecca Solnit Lecture and Book Signing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 20
Public Program
Mary Wemple Words & Art Poetry Workshop
Main Building
1–3 p.m.
Jan 11
Public Program
Noah Simblist Walking the Length of a Knife’s Edge: Mona Hatoum’s Contradictions
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 9, 2017
Public Program
Lisa Lapinski Gallery Talk on Mona Hatoum
Main Building
2–3:30 p.m.
Nov 30, 2017
Public Program
Darby English, Ph.D., on 1971, A Year in the Life of Color
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 17, 2017
Public Program
Houston Palestine Film Festival: Films of Mona Hatoum
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 11, 2017
Public Program
Joseph Havel on Mona Hatoum
Main Building
2–3 p.m.
Nov 9, 2017
Public Program
Naomi Shihab Nye Poetry Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 8, 2017
Public Program
Naomi Shihab Nye Poetry Workshop in conjunction with Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Main Building
1–4 p.m.
Nov 4, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston, Stop, Look and Listen! 30 Years of Music and Art
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Oct 28, 2017
Public Program
Jillian Conrad on Mona Hatoum
Main Building
2–3 p.m.
Oct 27, 2017
Public Program
POSTPONED 2017 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement: Reem Fadda
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 26, 2017
Public Program
Jed Perl Reading and Book Signing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 15, 2017
Public Program
Synthesis: Student Choreography from University of Houston
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Oct 13, 2017
Public Program
Mona Hatoum on Her Exhibition Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 7, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston, Stop, Look and Listen!
Latin Jazz on the Lawn
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Sep 24, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston, Stop, Look and Listen! Harlem Quartet
Main Building
2–3 p.m.
Sep 15, 2017
Public Program
The Dream Colony: A Life in Art by Walter Hopps Public Conversation and Book Signing with Anne Doran, Deborah Treisman, and Rebecca Rabinow
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jun 3, 2017
Public Program
The Menil Collection’s 30th Birthday Party
Main Building
2–5 p.m.
Jun 2, 2017
Public Program
Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World.
Main Building
8–9 p.m.
May 24, 2017
Public Program
Christina Rosenberger, Finding the Grid: Agnes Martin and Abstraction
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 18, 2017
Public Program
WITS (Writers in the Schools) Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 12, 2017
Public Program
Vivian L. Smith Foundation Symposium: Surrealism and the Art of the 1960s
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
May 11, 2017
Public Program
Suzanne Hudson and Sarah Rothenberg: Artists, Community, and the Coenties Slip
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 6, 2017
Public Program
Menilfest and Gulf Coast Indie Book Fair
Main Building
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
May 5, 2017
Public Program
BYOB, 4th Annual Screening
Main Building Lawn
8:30–10:30 p.m.
Apr 27, 2017
Public Program
Masks and Modernité: Dogon Now
Main Building
7–8 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 1, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen! ReCollecting Dogon
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Mar 23, 2017
Public Program
Gary Vikan Reading and Book Signing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Mar 12, 2017
Public Program
paratext: Performance by Alabama Song
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
4–6 p.m.
Feb 25, 2017
Public Program
Richard Shiff on The Beginning of Everything
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 24, 2017
Public Program
Terry Winters Notes on Drawing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 18, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 17, 2017
Public Program
Red Currant
Byzantine Fresco Chapel
4011 Yupon Street
7–8 p.m.
Feb 16, 2017
Public Program
Of the World: In Conversation with Artist Amahigueré Dolo
Main Building
7–8 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 11, 2017
Public Program
Bruce Conner: An Assemblage of Films
Aurora Picture Show
2442 Bartlett St.
7–8:30 p.m.
Feb 10, 2017
Public Program
Robert Rauschenberg: Making an Exhibition
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 2, 2017
Public Program
Menil Neighborhood Night
Main Building
5–9 p.m.
Jan 28, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Public Program
Museum Experience Zone 1
Main Building
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Jan 24, 2017
Public Program
Alias: Art and Identity in Cold War Hollywood
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 13, 2017
Public Program
MDI Conversation and Lecture Series with Amy Sillman
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 7, 2017
Public Program
Paul Yamazaki on City Lights Books and Beat Culure
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 16, 2016
Public Program
Mexico City in the 1980s and ‘90s
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
7–8 p.m.
Dec 15, 2016
Public Program
Seeing Sol LeWitt Lecture
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 14, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Projectionist Notes
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Nov 30, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Meditation on Light
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Nov 12, 2016
Public Program
Houston Cinema Arts Festival: Amie Siegel Artist Talk and Screening
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Nov 11, 2016
Public Program
Menil Drawing Institute Conversation and Lecture Series Terrance Hayes | The Syntax of Drawing
Main Building
7–8 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 9, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Poetry
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Nov 5, 2016
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston STOP, LOOK & LISTEN! | Picasso’s Paris
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 4, 2016
Public Program
Trevor Stark on Picasso
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 2, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Warhol and the de Menils
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Oct 26, 2016
Public Program
One Whom Some Were Following: The Steins and Picasso Before Fame
Main Building
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Meditation
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Oct 12, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Sessions: Simone Swan
Main Building
6–7 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 5, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Sessions: 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 28, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: From the Archives
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Sep 26, 2016
Public Program
The Modern Body: Picasso and the Ballet Russes
Main Building
7–8:30 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 23, 2016
Public Program
Houston Grand Opera Song Cycle on the Magnificent Pretty Boy, Henry Ray Clark
Main Building
5–6:30 p.m.
Sep 16, 2016
Public Program
Picasso’s Lines and Drawing’s Possibilities
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Sep 9, 2016
Public Program
Menil Drawing Institute Conversation and Lecture Series Roni Horn and David Breslin | The Primary Activity
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Sep 7, 2016
Public Program
Shedding Light
Aurora Picture Show
2442 Bartlett St.
7:30–9 p.m.
Aug 31, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Sessions: Music
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Aug 26, 2016
Public Program
Fabiola
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
7–8 p.m.
Aug 24, 2016
Public Program
Visionary and Self-Taught Art in the Community
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jun 26, 2016
Public Program
Eva Hesse Film Screening at MFAH
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium
5–7 p.m.
Jun 25, 2016
Public Program
Eva Hesse Film Screening at MFAH
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium
7–9 p.m.
Jun 24, 2016
Public Program
An Outdoor Celebration of As Essential as Dreams with Lonnie Holley
Discovery Green
1500 McKinney, Downtown Houston
7:30–10:30 p.m.
Jun 15, 2016
Public Program
CANCELED Visionary and Self-Taught Art in the Community
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 27, 2016
Public Program
BYOB (Bring You Own Beamer) Rescheduled Date
Main Building
8:30–10:30 p.m.
May 21, 2016
Public Program
Conversation: Francis Alÿs and Lynne Cooke
Main Building
2–3 p.m.
