Max Tolleson reviews an exhibition of portraits by Houston artist Nestor Topchy, on view at the Menil Collection.
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Jacky Cortiaus reviews an exhibition of exquisitely detailed drawings by artist Gray Foy, on view at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston.
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Review
A Line’s Wisdom: Pleasure and Preparation in Robert Motherwell’s “As Fast as the Mind Itself”
Rosa Boshier González reviews the Menil Drawing Institute's exhibition featuring four decades of work by Robert Motherwell.
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Ruben C. Cordova on the life and career of artist Meret Oppenheim.
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Matthew Bourbon visits the Menil Collection exhibition "What I Saw," featuring works by self-taught artist Joseph E. Yoakum.
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When a small work is good, it packs a disproportionate punch: while it can be easy for a big piece to awe you from across the room, the ability for a tiny artwork to have the same effect is rare.
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The drawings featured, like the show’s curation, are exquisite and precise, and ask the viewer to reconsider how they understand Pop and its contemporary applications.
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Her intention as an artist was to inhabit a space outside of the snobbery of the traditional art space.
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Review
Hard-Edge Done Right: Virginia Jaramillo at The Menil Collection
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechThe first solo museum presentation of her career, the show is striking and straightforward, made up of eight acrylic paintings created soon after Jaramillo made the move from Paris to New York City in 1967.
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech discuss the proliferation of private museums in the U.S.
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News
Texas Museums to Merge and Consolidate, Hire Architects For New Mega-Complexes Around the State
We anticipate what some people are calling maybe the biggest capital campaigns the world has ever seen, and our Texas museums may never be the same.
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a show that calls for flash photography in Houston, an explosion of prints in Austin, and a retrospective of Sterling Ruby's work in Dallas.
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Here Hewitt asserts an oft-overlooked concurrence: the civil rights era and minimalism.
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson count down Glasstire’s favorite museum restaurants in Texas.
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Christina Rees and guest Shelby David Meier on a mashup in the Panhandle, the Menil's new Drawing Institute, and a reminder that Meier was once Rees’ favorite student.
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News
Edouard Kopp Named Chief Curator of the Menil Drawing Institute
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechIn his new position, Kopp will be in charge of managing the Institute's collection of drawings, which is the fastest-growing component of the Menil's collection.
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For the next year, the Menil will rotate out pieces from its permanent collection throughout the building.
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The Menil Collection in Houston closed its main building in February of this year for needed updates and renovations, and today announced its reopening date: September 22, 2018. Via the Menil: “The…
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Last Friday, May 18, Houston’s Rothko Chapel was vandalized by an unknown person, reports Allyn West of the Houston Chronicle. Physical damage to the chapel and its surrounding grounds was limited —…
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It has long been rumored that a proper looking middle-aged woman entered the otherwise visitorless Cy Twombly Gallery in Houston’s Menil campus. When she seemed to be in the back…