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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
Nov 7, 2015
Public Program
Glenn Kotche
Solo Percussion Performance
Menil Collection
8–10 p.m.
Nov 11, 2015
Public Program
The World of Salvador Dalí with Danielle Johnson
Menil Collection
7–8 p.m.
Nov 16, 2015
Public Program
Desired Constellations Short Films
Menil Collection
8–9 p.m.
Nov 20, 2015
Public Program
Edmund de Waal Lecture and Booksigning
Menil Collection
7–8 p.m.
Nov 23, 2015
Public Program
Marion Barthelme Lecture Series: Yve-Alain Bois on Ellsworth Kelly
Menil Collection
7–8 p.m.
Dec 2, 2015
Public Program
Sean Mooney Introducing Edmund Carpenter
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 22, 2016
Public Program
Charles Ray: Thoughts on Sculpture
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 29, 2016
Public Program
Conversation with an Artist: Danh Vō
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 30, 2016
Public Program
Museum Experience Day
Main Building and Campus
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Feb 9, 2016
Public Program
The Precarious, the Social, the Parochial: David Breslin and David Leslie in Conversation
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 12, 2016
Public Program
Two Films by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel
Main Building
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Feb 19, 2016
Public Program
The World According to CPLY
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 20, 2016
Public Program
Stop, Look, and Listen! with Da Camera of Houston
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 26, 2016
Public Program
Sandra Zalman Reading and Book Signing
Menil Bookstore
6–7:30 p.m.
Feb 29, 2016
Public Program
Copley, Comics, and Alternative Figures in American Art
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Mar 4, 2016
Public Program
Charles Ray: Thoughts on Sculpture
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Mar 10, 2016
Public Program
James Crump Film Screening of Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Mar 12, 2016
Public Program
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s Teen Council Exhibition Walkthrough of Root Shift
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Stop, Look, and Listen! with Da Camera of Houston
Precarious Sounds
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Mar 14, 2016
Public Program
Ewa Zebrowski Reading and Book Signing
Menil Bookstore
5–6:45 p.m.
Public Program
Curator Peter Galassi on the Work of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Mar 24, 2016
Public Program
Marfa Dialogues/Houston
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Apr 9, 2016
Public Program
Stop, Look, and Listen! with Da Camera of Houston
Celebrating Beethoven
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Apr 13, 2016
Public Program
CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank
Main Building
2–3 p.m.
Apr 14, 2016
Public Program
CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank
Main Building
2–4 p.m.
Public Program
CounterCurrent: Fault Diagnosis
SBC Properties, 4215 Mandell Street
9–10 p.m.
Apr 15, 2016
Public Program
CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank
Main Building
2–3 p.m.
Public Program
CounterCurrent: Fault Diagnosis
SBC Properties, 4215 Mandell Street
8:30–10:30 p.m.
Apr 16, 2016
Public Program
CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank
Main Building
4–5 p.m.
Public Program
Vivian L. Smith Foundation Symposium: TRESPASS
Main Building
5–7 p.m.
Apr 17, 2016
Public Program
CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank
Main Building
4–5 p.m.
Apr 22, 2016
Public Program
Maggie Nicols Performance at Richmond Hall
Richmond Hall
1500 Richmond Avenue
8–10 p.m.
Apr 29, 2016
Public Program
Dionysia 2016: A Return Home
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
May 7, 2016
Public Program
MenilFest!
Main Building and Campus
11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Public Program
Stop, Look, and Listen!
Menil foyer
1–2 p.m.
May 14, 2016
Public Program
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)
Menil campus
8–10 p.m.
May 19, 2016
Public Program
WITS Watchful Eye Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 21, 2016
Public Program
Conversation: Francis Alÿs and Lynne Cooke
Main Building
2–3 p.m.
May 27, 2016
Public Program
BYOB (Bring You Own Beamer) Rescheduled Date
Main Building
8:30–10:30 p.m.
Jun 15, 2016
Public Program
CANCELED Visionary and Self-Taught Art in the Community
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
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 25, 2016
Public Program
Eva Hesse Film Screening at MFAH
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium
7–9 p.m.
Jun 26, 2016
Public Program
Eva Hesse Film Screening at MFAH
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium
5–7 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