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Watch Past Programs
Feb 14
Public Program
Public Opening of Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw
Menil Drawing Institute
7–9 p.m.
Feb 12
Public Program
Artist Talk: Tacita Dean
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Feb 10
Public Program
Curators Lecture Series with Irene Shum on John Cage
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 8
Public Program
Society for the Performing Arts: Michelle Dorrance
Main Building
6:30–7:30 p.m.
Feb 6
Public Program
Artist Talk: Trenton Doyle Hancock in conversation with Senior Curator Michelle White
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 26
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston: Stop, Look and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Jan 25
Public Program
Public Opening of Contemporary Focus: Trenton Doyle Hancock
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Jan 23
Public Program
Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns’s Painting and Drawing: A Dialogue
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 13
Public Program
Curators Lecture Series with Kelly Montana on Jasper Johns
Menil Drawing Institute
3–4 p.m.
Jan 9
Public Program
John Yau: Jasper Johns and the Damaged Human Body
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 12, 2018
Public Program
Jay Wehnert Lecture and Book Signing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 9, 2018
Public Program
Curators Lecture with Paul Davis on Art of the Pacific Islands
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Dec 8, 2018
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston: Stop, Look and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 15, 2018
Public Program
Adam Vines Reading and Book Signing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 11, 2018
Public Program
Curator Lecture with Clare Elliott on Max Ernst
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 7, 2018
Public Program
Artist Talk with Suzan Frecon
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Nov 3, 2018
Public Program
Menil Drawing Institute Community Celebration
Menil Drawing Institute
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Oct 19, 2018
Public Program
Gray Foy: Drawings 1941–1975 Book Signing
Menil Bookstore
6–8 p.m.
Oct 14, 2018
Public Program
Curators Lecture Series with Natalie Dupêcher on Joan Miró
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Oct 6, 2018
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston: Stop, Look and Listen! Jazz on the Lawn
Main Building Lawn
3–4 p.m.
Oct 3, 2018
Public Program
Artist Talk with Leslie Hewitt and Courtney J. Martin
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Sep 22, 2018
Public Program
Menil Collection Reopening Celebration
Main Building
11 a.m.–7 p.m.
Sep 7, 2018
Public Program
Echoes from Within: A Musical Response to Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Public Program
Echoes from Within: A Musical Response to Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Jun 22, 2018
Public Program
Book Release Reception: Untitled Trip by Ryan Hollaway
Menil Bookstore
5–7 p.m.
Jun 8, 2018
Public Program
Menil Bookstore Jewelry Trunk Show: Ludmila Ivanova and Kaneem Smith
Menil Bookstore
5–7 p.m.
May 16, 2018
Public Program
The Watchful Eye: A Writers in the Schools Student Reading
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
7–8 p.m.
May 3, 2018
Public Program
Riyaaz Qawwali Concert
Main Building Lawn
7–8 p.m.
Apr 14, 2018
Public Program
Da Camera Stop, Look and Listen! Beethoven for All
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
3–4 p.m.
Apr 13, 2018
Public Program
Vivian L. Smith Foundation Symposium
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
7–9 p.m.
Apr 6, 2018
Public Program
Aurora Picture Show BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)
Main Building
8:30–10:30 p.m.
Mar 27, 2018
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, 2018
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, 2018
Public Program
Dickie Landry Concert at Byzantine Fresco Chapel
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
7–8 p.m.
Mar 10, 2018
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston: Stop, Look and Listen! Family Concert
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
2–3 p.m.
Mar 7, 2018
Public Program
Mary Jacobus, On Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
7–8 p.m.
Mar 1, 2018
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, 2018
Public Program
Da Camera Stop, Look and Listen! Reflections on Mona Hatoum’s Terra Infirma Exhibition
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 22, 2018
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, 2018
Public Program
Mary Wemple Words & Art Poetry Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 9, 2018
Public Program
Marion Barthelme Lecture with Rachael Z. DeLue on Kara Walker
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 4, 2018
Public Program
Sehba Sarwar On Belonging
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
2–4 p.m.
Feb 3, 2018
Public Program
Sehba Sarwar On Belonging
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
2–4 p.m.
Jan 24, 2018
Public Program
Rebecca Solnit Lecture and Book Signing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 20, 2018
Public Program
Mary Wemple Words & Art Poetry Workshop
Main Building
1–3 p.m.
Jan 11, 2018
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.
