"Menil Collection"

Brandon Zech on the boundary-defying work of a major 20th century artist.

Her intention as an artist was to inhabit a space outside of the snobbery of the traditional art space.

General Responsibilities The Marketing Manager at the Menil Collection is responsible for the museum’s social media and email marketing strategy. The position collaborates with numerous departments to create content, managing…

The 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. 

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

Responsibilities Supervise the maintenance of the financial records of the Foundation for accuracy, completeness, and documentation. These records include, but are not limited to: investments, banking, accounts payable, accounts receivable,…

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…