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Current Exhibitions
Oct 11, 2024 – Apr 19, 2025
Main Building
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Fragments of Memory
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms
On view through August 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo
Main Building
A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil
Apr 1, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen! ReCollecting Dogon
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Apr 3, 2017
Menil Contemporaries
Spring Mixer
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Apr 7, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on the Outdoor Sculptures
Main Building
12–1 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 13, 2017
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of Between Land and Sea: Artists of the Coenties Slip
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member’s Opening of Between Land and Sea: Artists of the Coenties Slip
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Apr 20, 2017
Menil Society
Spring Cocktails
Menil House
6–8 p.m.
Apr 21, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Spectrophotometry
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Apr 27, 2017
Public Program
Masks and Modernité: Dogon Now
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Apr 28, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Surrealist Techniques
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
May 2, 2017
Membership
Friends of the Library Reception
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
May 5, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Max Neuhaus Chimes
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
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
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Between Land and Sea
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
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 19, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Monumental Sculpture of Ambrym Island
Main Building
12–1 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.
Jun 9, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on The Beginning of Everything
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jun 13, 2017
Membership
“Meet the Menil” Reception for New Members
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Jul 14, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Between Land and Sea
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Aug 25, 2017
Membership
Member Noontime Talk on Inspired by the Pencil of Nature: An Introduction to 19th Century Paper-based Photographic Holdings of the Menil Collection
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 8, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Potent Figures: Women in Sculpture from Africa and Madagascar
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 12, 2017
Menil Contemporaries
Cocktails with a Curator: Thirty Works for Thirty Years
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Sep 15, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Ellsworth Kelly at the Menil
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
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 22, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Exploring John Chamberlain’s American Tableau
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 24, 2017
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston, Stop, Look and Listen! Harlem Quartet
Main Building
2–3 p.m.
Sep 29, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Ethics and Treatments in Conservation
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 6, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Slow Art and/or the Sublime: Zarina, Newman or Rothko
Main Building
12–1 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 12, 2017
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Exhibition Opening Event
Public Opening of Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Oct 13, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on The Many Lives of Objects: Arts of the Ancient World at the Menil
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
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 20, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Victor Brauner
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 23, 2017
Special Event
Da Camera of Houston Concert: Schubert’s Winterreise
Main Building
This is a ticketed event
7:30–10 p.m.
Oct 24, 2017
Special Event
Da Camera of Houston Concert: Schubert’s Winterreise
Main Building
This is a ticketed event
7:30–10 p.m.
Oct 26, 2017
Public Program
Jed Perl Reading and Book Signing
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 27, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Text as Catalyst: Artists’ Books inspired by Literature
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
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.
Oct 29, 2017
Special Event
Who R U? Menil Children’s Costume Party
Menil Park
This is a ticketed event
3–5 p.m.
Nov 3, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Main Building
12–1 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 10, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on 30 Works for 30 Years: Drawings for the Menil Collection
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Nov 11, 2017
Public Program
Joseph Havel on Mona Hatoum
Main Building
2–3 p.m.
Nov 17, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Conservation Framing: Protecting your Paper
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
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 1, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Conservation
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Dec 2, 2017
Special Event
Luminous: The Menil Collection’s 30th Anniversary Ball
Main Building
This is a ticketed event
7 p.m.–12 a.m.
Dec 8, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on The Early Work of Robert Rauschenberg
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Menil Contemporaries
Surreal Soirée
Main Building
This is a ticketed event
9 p.m.–12 a.m.
Dec 9, 2017
Public Program
Lisa Lapinski Gallery Talk on Mona Hatoum
Main Building
2–3:30 p.m.
Dec 15, 2017
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Current Exhibitions
Oct 11, 2024 – Apr 19, 2025
Main Building
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Fragments of Memory
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms
On view through August 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo
Main Building
A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil