menil drawing institute

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

At a ceremony on Saturday morning, March 28, the Menil collection formally began work on a new $40 million  freestanding building for the Menil Drawing Institute. A plan for a…

This Friday, the Rice Media Center will host On Drawing: Symposium and Panel Discussion, presentations and discussions about drawing with Claire Gilman, Curator at The Drawing Center in New York; Michelle…

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…

The Menil Collection unveiled plans for its new freestanding drawing institute on Wednesday and the reviews are starting to come in. One might think that Culturemap Houston’s hometown familiarity with…

Menil Director Josef Helfenstein has announced the appointment of Allegra Pesenti as chief curator of the Menil Drawing Institute. She will head the development of the first freestanding facility in…

Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian…

Culturemap‘s Tyler Rudick reports on the selection of Los Angeles architects Johnson Marklee as the designers for the new Drawing Institute and Study Center on the Menil Campus in Houston.…

The Menil collection has narrowed the search for an architect for it’s new 18,000 sf Drawing Institute building. After two years of visiting architects around the world, the Menil’s architecture…