On April 3, 2018, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Director Gary Tinterow will sit down with writer William Middleton to discuss Middleton’s new book Double Vision: The Unerring Eye…
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This weekend is your last chance to see the Menil Collection’s main building before it closes for eight months. During the closure, which begins on Monday, February 26th, the institution…
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Good grief! On top of the announcement that the Menil Collection will be closed for eight months, beginning February 26, for repairs and a general spiffing up, now it has…
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The Menil Collection in Houston has announced that Reem Fadda has been awarded the eighth Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. The Palestine/Jordan-based curator “will receive a $20,000 stipend and…
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This Week: World Premiere of Opera about the Rothko Chapel and Dominique de Menil
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOn Thursday, March 16 and Friday, March 17, the Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will present the world premiere of Some Light Emerges, a musical celebration of Houston’s social history, visual…
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The Beginning of Everything: Drawings from the Janie C. Lee, Louisa Stude Sarofim, and David Whitney Collections
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechAn exhibition featuring drawings that have been promised to the museum in advance of the opening of the Menil Drawing Institute. The show includes works by Eva Hesse, Georgia O’keeffe, Philip Guston, Vija…
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The Menil Drawing Institute will open on October 7, 2017. This comes two months after a minor hiccup where the Drawing Institute’s chief curator, David Breslin, left for the Whitney Museum of…
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One year before the opening of the Menil’s much-anticipated Menil Drawing Institute, the Institute is losing its (still-new) chief curator David Breslin. He’s headed next month to the Whitney Museum of…
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I sometimes want to like this stuff, but the line between poetic rhetoric and bullshit is just too fuzzy.
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Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Austin Does Houston at the Menil Bookstore Next Week
by Glasstireby GlasstireOn July 8th from 6-9 p.m., the Menil’s bookstore in Houston is hosting an exhibition of artist books by Austin favorite Kevin McNamee-Tweed. (The bookstore, in a bungalow across the…
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Today the Menil Collection announced a huge windfall gift of top-notch artworks: It’s a collection of 110 drawings from museum trustees Janie C. Lee and Louisa Stude Sarofim. These drawings are…
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Long-time Menil Collection Director of Communications Vance Muse, who retired at the end of last year, has apparently been replaced by pop star Beyoncé. The Houston native often visits the…
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The Aurora Picture Show’s BYOB (Bring your Own Beamer), an evening of DIY projections covering the façade of the Menil Collection building, had to be cancelled because of the weather.…
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Cartier-Bresson’s human subjects are full of agency in spite of their positions in historical moments over which they may have little control.
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Over the past six months, Houston’s Menil Collection hosted three lectures by Los Angeles-based sculptor Charles Ray. You may have heard of Ray from a recent controversy where the Whitney rejected a sculpture commissioned from…
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If you haven’t seen the eye-slicing scene at the beginning of Un chien andalou (1929), you haven’t been to art school. Almost 90 years after its release, the Surrealist film,…
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On February 19 in Houston, the Menil Collection’s long-awaited exhibition William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY opens as the first U.S. museum retrospective of this odd and prolific artist’s work. It’s…
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It was announced this past Friday that the Tom Rhoads will serve as the interim director for the Menil Collection in Houston. His duties will begin mid-December once Josef Helfenstein leaves…
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Most artists move through obsessive cycles in which we wrap our thoughts too tightly around an idea and suddenly find ourselves in a place we never intended to go and might not mean to stay.
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An exhibition objects collected by Adelaide de Menil and late anthropologist Edmund Carpente. This is the first exhibition of this body of work and includes works that vastly vary in…