menil drawing institute

This week: A group show exploring the limits of drawing, a history of Mexican American art in El Paso, the 2025 CAM Perennial, and more.

Glasstire’s staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2024. **** Emma Ahmad Sheryl Anaya: Absurd Appetites (Tables for Two) at Cluley…

Valentin Diaconov reviews an exhibition of drawings, videos, and an installation by artist Hanne Darboven at the Menil Drawing Institute.

Glasstire's staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2023.

Jacky Cortiaus reviews an exhibition of exquisitely detailed drawings by artist Gray Foy, on view at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston.

Rosa Boshier González reviews the Menil Drawing Institute's exhibition featuring four decades of work by Robert Motherwell.

This week: a comprehensive solo exhibition of work by an AbEx artist in Houston, the first museum retrospective of a self-taught painter in Dallas, an exploration of the legacy of a historical icon in San Antonio, and more.

Matthew Bourbon visita “What I Saw” en la Menil Collection, una exposición que reúne las obras del artista autodidacta Joseph E. Yoakum.

Matthew Bourbon visits the Menil Collection exhibition "What I Saw," featuring works by self-taught artist Joseph E. Yoakum.

The drawings featured, like the show’s curation, are exquisite and precise, and ask the viewer to reconsider how they understand Pop and its contemporary applications.

“It’s a century where artists think very deeply about what drawing is as a concept, but also about materials and how to use them.”

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees on Texas barns in danger, Italian drawings in Space City, and an artist who has her finger on the pulse of human awfulness.

The pre-Doctoral Fellowship comes with a stipend of $3,000 per month, and the Research Fellowship comes with up to $5,000 per month for living expenses.

Horn’s works argue an essential point: the pursuit of truth through knowledge is a quixotic endeavor.

The extremely posh Menil Drawing Institute closely resembles an extremely posh convenience store on the Princeton campus.

Does the word “background” in Horn’s description of her use of language here as “background noise” really indicate an auxiliary purpose? I don't believe it.

Christina Rees and guest Shelby David Meier on a mashup in the Panhandle, the Menil's new Drawing Institute, and a reminder that Meier was once Rees’ favorite student.

In his new position, Kopp will be in charge of managing the Institute's collection of drawings, which is the fastest-growing component of the Menil's collection.

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…

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…