The Beat artists, in their time, were something the establishment really didn’t know what to do with.
"Menil Collection"
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The show functions as an outline of Picasso’s vision of the past and his insight into the future of art and human life.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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New Guy in Town! Houston’s Menil Collection to Name Drawing Center Director
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAlthough 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…
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James' designs weren't about working with the bodies of his clients but sculpturally reshaping them.
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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…
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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.
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Menil Collection Unveils Partial Plans for New Green Campus and Café
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHouston’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…
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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 with simultaneous exhibitions at the…
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[Disclosure: I am married to one of The Art Guys. I am not an impartial bystander. Read the following with that in mind.] It was announced yesterday that the Menil…
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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 years ago. You should not…
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Pablo Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair (1929) was vandalized last week when a man in a dark suit approached the piece and stenciled the word “Conquista” and a picture…
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Dan Flavin’s installation is sometimes a venue for other events . . .
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Housed in a gray Menil bungalow, the Menil Collection Bookstore faces the main entrance of the museum building. Inside, you will find a broad range of volumes from the Menil…
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I live in Austin and while there is tons of art to see in this town, I believe that if you treat the state of Texas as one large city…
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Rare and important pieces from the 6th to 18th centuries from the Menil’s collection of icons, widely regarded by scholars as one of the most important of its kind in…
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Ahh, the Menil. It’s undisputably the jewel of the Houston art scene, and arguably the finest museum in Texas. Heck, we’ll go so far as to put it up against…
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