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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
Oct 5, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Sessions: From the Archives
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 12, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Sessions: Simone Swan
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Oct 26, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Meditation
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Public Program
One Whom Some Were Following: The Steins and Picasso Before Fame
Main Building
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Nov 2, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Warhol and the de Menils
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Nov 4, 2016
Public Program
Trevor Stark on Picasso
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 5, 2016
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston STOP, LOOK & LISTEN! | Picasso’s Paris
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 9, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Poetry
Main Building
6–7 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 11, 2016
Public Program
Menil Drawing Institute Conversation and Lecture Series Terrance Hayes | The Syntax of Drawing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 12, 2016
Public Program
Houston Cinema Arts Festival: Amie Siegel Artist Talk and Screening
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Nov 30, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Meditation on Light
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Dec 14, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: Projectionist Notes
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Dec 15, 2016
Public Program
Seeing Sol LeWitt Lecture
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.
Jan 7, 2017
Public Program
Paul Yamazaki on City Lights Books and Beat Culure
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 24, 2017
Public Program
Alias: Art and Identity in Cold War Hollywood
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 28, 2017
Public Program
Museum Experience Zone 1
Main Building
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 2, 2017
Public Program
Menil Neighborhood Night
Main Building
5–9 p.m.
Feb 10, 2017
Public Program
Robert Rauschenberg: Making an Exhibition
Main Building
7–8 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 12, 2017
Public Program
Bruce Conner: An Assemblage of Films
Aurora Picture Show
2442 Bartlett St.
3:30–5 p.m.
Feb 16, 2017
Public Program
Of the World: In Conversation with Artist Amahigueré Dolo
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 17, 2017
Public Program
Red Currant
Byzantine Fresco Chapel
4011 Yupon Street
7–8 p.m.
Feb 18, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 24, 2017
Public Program
Terry Winters Notes on Drawing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 25, 2017
Public Program
Richard Shiff on The Beginning of Everything
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.
Mar 23, 2017
Public Program
Gary Vikan Reading and Book Signing
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.
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 27, 2017
Public Program
Masks and Modernité: Dogon Now
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 5, 2017
Public Program
BYOB, 4th Annual Screening
Main Building Lawn
8:30–10:30 p.m.
May 6, 2017
Public Program
Menilfest and Gulf Coast Indie Book Fair
Main Building
11 a.m.–6 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 12, 2017
Public Program
Vivian L. Smith Foundation Symposium: Surrealism and the Art of the 1960s
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
May 18, 2017
Public Program
WITS (Writers in the Schools) Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 24, 2017
Public Program
Christina Rosenberger, Finding the Grid: Agnes Martin and Abstraction
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jun 2, 2017
Public Program
Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World.
Main Building
8–9 p.m.
Jun 3, 2017
Public Program
The Menil Collection’s 30th Birthday Party
Main Building
2–5 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