By Bill Davenport on March 27, 2013
In a low-profile acknowledgement of a de-facto situation, the Menil collection’s Board of Trustees has approved the de-accession of Art Guys Marry A Plant, the [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged art guys, art guys marry a plant, josef helfenstein, menil, museum de-accessioning |
By Joshua Fischer on February 24, 2013
The Progress of Love at the Menil Collection is an ambitious group exhibition that takes on the broad topics of love and African contemporary art [...]
Posted in Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged Centre for Contemporary Art, christina van dyke, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Emeka Ogboh, Felix Gonzales-Torres, fragonard, Joel Andrianomearisoa, Kendell Geers, Kristina Van Dyke, Lagos, menil, progress of love, pulitzer foundation for the arts, Romuald Hazoume, St. Louis, Yinka Shonibare, Zino Saro-Wiwa, Zoulikha Bouabdellah |
By Bill Davenport on January 16, 2013
In case you missed it, (as I did!) a piece titled “Homophobia and the Arts” co-written by blogger James Payne and artist Michael Petry appeared [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged art guys, art guys marry a plant, hiram butler, james payne, menil, micheal petry |
By Kelly Klaasmeyer on January 11, 2013
Glasstire has received the following email from the Art Guys: The Menil Collection has decided to remove “The Art Guys Marry A Plant” from their [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged art guys, art guys tree to be removed, menil, tree |
By Janet Tyson on November 9, 2012
Forget iPhone 5. Instead of buying the latest Apple gadget, I’ve added Magritte VI to my credit card bill. Nothing Apple sells stirs my covetousness [...]
Posted in Blog, Reading Room, Uncategorized | Tagged bataille, Magritte, menil, surrealism |
By Peter Lucas on October 7, 2012
Celebrating the legendary de Menil years of the Rice Museum and Rice Media Center. The Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this year has had me thinking [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged andy warhol, art, film, menil, rice media center, rice university |
By Hills Snyder on October 3, 2012
The Program Will Begin Shortly… Silence is Toby Kamps’ first major exhibition at The Menil Collection since becoming curator of modern and contemporary art two [...]
Posted in Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged Jacob Kirkegaard, jason everman, John Cage, Kurt Mueller, menil, Robert Morris, rothko chapel, silence, toby kamps |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2012
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super [...]
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By Bill Davenport on August 6, 2012
Deborah Velders, Deputy Director of the New Asia Society Texas Center is leaving Houston to take over as director of the Mobile Museum of Art [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged asia society texas center, deborah velders, menil, mobile museum of art, Walter Hopps |
By Sebastien Boncy on June 3, 2012
You need to go see Danny Lyon’s brilliant photographs while they’re up at the Menil. The words that follow contain praise, but also doubt, disappointment [...]
Posted in Article, Review | Tagged Crossing The Ohio, Danny Lyon, Documentary, Hacked Documentary, hcp, houston center for photography, Jesse Stone, John Cleary, John Cleary Library, Lyrical Documentary, menil, menil collection, Merci Gonaives, New Journalism, Photo Essay, Photobook, photography, Richard Serra, The BikeRiders, This World Is Not My Home, toby kamps, Warren Ellis, White Box |
By Joshua Fischer on March 12, 2012
When Richard Serra’s drawing retrospective opened at the Menil Collection, it was SERRAPALOOZA. Throngs of people congregated at the Menil, many of us on the [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged joel shapiro, joshua fischer, jules olitski, menil, mfah, rice gallery, Richard Serra, Texas Gallery |
By Bill Davenport on February 29, 2012
March 4 will be the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes currently nestled in their frosted glass framework at the Menil’s Byzantine Fresco Chapel. [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged byzantine fresco chapel, menil |
By Bill Davenport on December 14, 2011
The catalog for last summer’s Menil exhibition Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea has won the third annual [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged ancestors of the lake, menil, sentani, virginia-lee webb |
By Bill Davenport on November 8, 2011
In a ceremony officiated by National Book Critics Circle Winner Lawrence Weschler, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, the Art Guys will [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged art guys, lawrence weschler, menil, toby kamps |
By Bill Davenport on October 25, 2011
Michelle White, who curated such fascinating, unexpected shows as Imaginary Spaces: Selections from the Menil Collection; Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance, [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged josef helfenstein, menil, michelle white, seeing stars |
By Bill Davenport on September 16, 2011
On Saturday, September 17, Sixteen museums congregated in southern Montrose are collectively celebrating themselves by offering free admission and nonstop free events, films and activities: [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged buffalo soldiers, holocaust museum houston, houston museum district day, houston museum of natural science, menil, metrorail, mfah, weather museum |
By Christina Patoski on September 1, 2011
Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged art travel, beer can house, blaffer art museum, breakfast club, camh, cy twombly, diverseworks, flowerman, Houston, houston center for photography, Lawndale Art Center, menil, mfah, orange show, Project Row Houses, Reef, Renzo Piano, rothko chapel, texas art travel, University of houston |
By Bill Davenport on July 5, 2011
America’s first graffiti painter Cy Twombly died in Rome Tuesday at the age of 83. Known for his groundbreaking (or wall breaking) conflation of drawing, [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged cy twombly, judd, menil, twombly dead |
