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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
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.
Aug 24, 2016
Public Program
Visionary and Self-Taught Art in the Community
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Aug 26, 2016
Public Program
Fabiola
Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street
7–8 p.m.
Aug 31, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Sessions: Music
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Sep 7, 2016
Public Program
Shedding Light
Aurora Picture Show
2442 Bartlett St.
7:30–9 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 16, 2016
Public Program
Picasso’s Lines and Drawing’s Possibilities
Main Building
7–9 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 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 26, 2016
Public Program
The Modern Body: Picasso and the Ballet Russes
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Sep 28, 2016
Public Program
After Sunset Session: 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.
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.
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