"Menil Collection"

As with other Texas museums that have reopened, the Menil will require face masks for all visitors, and reservations ahead of your visit.

Here Hewitt asserts an oft-overlooked concurrence: the civil rights era and minimalism.

For the next year, the Menil will rotate out pieces from its permanent collection throughout the building.

The Menil Collection reopens after a seven-month hiatus. In the museum’s building-wide reinstallation, “the Menil’s most loved paintings and sculptures will be presented alongside promised gifts, recent acquisitions, and artworks that…

Today, Houston’s Menil Collection announced that it plans to open its Menil Drawing Institute building on November 3, 2018. The building was initially set to open on October 7, 2017, but in the…

The Menil Collection in Houston today announced the appointment of two new curators: Irene Mei Zhi Shum as Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, and Natalie Dupêcher as Assistant Curator of Modern Art. Both begin…

Is Hatoum's work doing something besides being eerie? The answer is yes.

Earlier this summer, Houston’s Menil Collection announced that on Monday, February 26, 2018 the institution plans to close its main building for eight months for maintenance work that includes the sanding, staining and…

Go see it now! Houston’s Menil Collection is going to shut its doors for eight whole months while its floors are sanded and refinished, reports the Houston Chronicle’s Molly Glentzer.…

They were exceptional artists and were a community of friends, and that seems like reason enough to put together this show.

The Beat artists, in their time, were something the establishment really didn’t know what to do with.

The show functions as an outline of Picasso’s vision of the past and his insight into the future of art and human life.

Typical of the efforts of the de Menils and also of the creative process of Warhol, this “failed” project produced reverberations in the form of ideas, artworks, relationships, and cultural connections.

The Smithers amassed a collection of remarkable breadth and depth, so rather than present a compendium of the whole collection, the exhibition wisely focuses on twelve artists who have much to teach us about creativity and the universal desire to communicate through art.

It was almost a year ago when Josef Helfenstein announced his resignation as director of Houston’s Menil Collection to accept a position in Switzerland. Now, the Menil’s board president Janet…

Although it hasn’t been officially announced, several sources confirm that David Breslin will be the new director of the Menil’s upcoming Drawing Institute. Breslin will be joining Houston’s ongoing art…

James' designs weren't about working with the bodies of his clients but sculpturally reshaping them.

A FotoFest 2014 exhibition featuring a selection of photographs by fifteen artists. Through varying scenes that portray subtle signs of existence to depictions of barren landscapes, the exhibition traces the…

If you are in search of a show that gets a little gritty and echoes a profound darkness and pessimism, you have come to the right museum. Even the philanthropic goodwill of the Menil's founders is questioned.

Houston’s Menil Collection today unveiled plans for the first phase of the renovation of its 30-acre campus. In June, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates was announced as the landscape architecture firm…