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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
Dec 5, 2019
Public Program
Professor Fred Myers Lecture: The Work of Art: The Gift and Invitation of Indigenous Australian Art
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 8, 2019
Public Program
Curator Talk: Edouard Kopp on Jean-Jacques Lequeu
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Dec 11, 2019
Public Program
Book Launch of Drawing Is Everything: Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute
Menil Drawing Institute
5–7 p.m.
Dec 13, 2019
Public Program
Pretti.Cool Trunk Show at Menil Bookstore
Menil Bookstore
6–8 p.m.
Dec 14, 2019
Public Program
Gallery Talk: Dr. Nassos Papalexandrou on Art of the Ancient World
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Jan 9, 2020
Public Program
On Art and Birds: Artist Joseph Havel in Conversation with Curator Paul R. Davis
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 12, 2020
Public Program
Curator Talk: Irene Shum on Siah Armajani’s Written Minneapolis (The Last Tomb)
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Jan 24, 2020
Public Program
Film Screening: Abbas Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Jan 31, 2020
Public Program
Artist Talk: Glenn Ligon
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Feb 9, 2020
Public Program
Curator Talk: Edouard Kopp on Jorinde Voigt’s Vertical
Menil Drawing Institute
3–4 p.m.
Feb 12, 2020
Public Program
Carl Phillips Poetry Reading
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
7–8 p.m.
Feb 20, 2020
Public Program
Public Opening of Think of Them as Spaces: Brice Marden’s Drawings
Menil Drawing Institute
7–9 p.m.
Feb 21, 2020
Public Program
Artist Talk: Brice Marden
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 22, 2020
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston Concert: Stop, Look, and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Mar 8, 2020
Public Program
Curator Talk: Paul R. Davis on Bird-Figure Shrines from West Africa
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Mar 11, 2020
Public Program
Exhibition Reception: Photography and the Surreal Imagination
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Jul 15, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: On New Work with Jamal Cyrus
Online
6–7 p.m.
Jul 29, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: Dan Flavin’s Light Sculpture
Online
6–7 p.m.
Aug 19, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: Through Jay DeFeo’s Lens
Online
6–7 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