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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
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.
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.
Sep 24, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston, Stop, Look and Listen! Harlem Quartet
Main Building
2–3 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.
Oct 13, 2017
Public Program
Mona Hatoum on Her Exhibition Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
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 26, 2017
Public Program
Jed Perl Reading and Book Signing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 27, 2017
Public Program
POSTPONED 2017 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement: Reem Fadda
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 28, 2017
Public Program
Jillian Conrad on Mona Hatoum
Main Building
2–3 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.
Nov 8, 2017
Public Program
Naomi Shihab Nye Poetry Workshop in conjunction with Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Main Building
1–4 p.m.
Nov 9, 2017
Public Program
Naomi Shihab Nye Poetry Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 11, 2017
Public Program
Joseph Havel on Mona Hatoum
Main Building
2–3 p.m.
Nov 17, 2017
Public Program
Houston Palestine Film Festival: Films of Mona Hatoum
Main Building
7–8 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.
Dec 9, 2017
Public Program
Lisa Lapinski Gallery Talk on Mona Hatoum
Main Building
2–3:30 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.
Jan 20, 2018
Public Program
Mary Wemple Words & Art Poetry Workshop
Main Building
1–3 p.m.
Jan 24, 2018
Public Program
Rebecca Solnit Lecture and Book Signing
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