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A Selection of Menil Collection Works Traveling Internationally
The Menil Collection actively lends works from the collection to exhibitions around the world. If your travel plans include any of the following locations, you may wish to visit these exhibitions.
“Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley"
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford
April 15 – September 9, 2012
Musée du quai Branly, Paris
November 12, 2012 – January 13, 2013
Nigeria, Anthropomorphic Sculpture, before 1850; Wurbon Daudu, Nigeria, Standing Female Figure, late 19th–early 20th century; Nigeria, Standing Male Figure, 14th–16th century
“Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970"
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
March 15 – June 10, 2012
Edward Kienholz, Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps, 1959, gift of Lannan Foundation
“Claes Oldenburg. From Street to Mouse: 1959-1970”
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
June 22 – September 30, 2012
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao
October 30, 2012 – February 28, 2013
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
April 9 – August 4, 2013
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
September 13, 2013 – January 13, 2014
Claes Oldenburg, Left-Handed Flag, 1960, gift of the artist; Store Objects – Watch in Case, Cupcakes, Sock, 1962, gift of the artist; Proposed Colossal Monument for Times Square, New York: Banana, Lying Position, 1965, gift of the artist; Late Submission to the Chicago Tribune Architectural Competition of 1922 - Clothespin, Version One, 1967, bequest of David Whitney; Proposed Colossal Monument for Central Park, N.Y.C. - Moving Pool Balls, 1967; Proposed Colossal Monument for Park Avenue, New York - Bowling Balls, 1967; Potato Potato...!, 1959, gift of the artist; Ray Gun Poster – Figure with Hat, 1960, gift of the artist; Street Chick, 1960, gift of the artist; Street Chick with Manhole, 1960, gift of the artist; Street Scene with Marquee, Mamaganger, Van, "PDR,", 1960, gift of the artist; Poster for "Ironworks", 1961, gift of the artist; Street Chicks with Theater Sign, 1961, gift of the artist; Street Chicks with Theater Sign – MASTE WEE, 1961, gift of the artist
“Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague, 1624-25”
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
February 15 – May 27, 2012
Anthony van Dyck, St. Rosalie Interceding for the Plague Victims of Palermo, 1624
“Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary”
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
February 18 – May 20, 2012
Nancy Grossman, Blind Masked Head, 1968
“Fresh Window: The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp"
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
March 31 – August 12, 2012
René Magritte, La lunette d’approche (The Telescope), 1963; Le soir qui tombe (Evening Falls), 1964
“Utopia/Dystopia: Constructed with Photography "
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston
March 13 – June 20, 2012
Christo, Empaquetage of a Public Building, Project for the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome,
1967; Peter Hutchinson, Iceberg Project, 1969; Robert Rauschenberg, Signs, 1970
“Women: Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Willem de Kooning"
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
March 30 – July 15, 2012
Willem de Kooning, Untitled VI, 1977, gift of Adelaide de Menil Carpenter, Formerly in the collection of Christophe de Menil
“Marcel Duchamp in Munich"
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
March 31 – July 15, 2012
Marcel Duchamp, Aéroplane, 1912 (Aug.-Sept.)
“Frank Stella"
Institut Valenciá d'Art Modern, Centre Julio González, Valenciá
June 21 – August 19, 2012
Frank Stella, Avicenna, 1960
“Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
September 10 – December 31, 2012
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
February 2 – April 28, 2013
Andy Warhol, Big Campbell's Soup Can, 19¢, 1962; Icebox, 1961
“This World is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs”
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young, San Francisco
September 29, 2012 – January 27, 2013
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
February 16 – June 3, 2013
Danny Lyon, 28 photographs
“The Hard Kind of Courage: Gordon Parks and the Photographers of the Civil Rights Era”
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita
September 15 – December 16, 2012
37 photographs
“The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil"
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
September 21, 2012 – January 6, 2013
58 photographs
“Picasso Black and White"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
October 5, 2012 – January 23, 2013
Pablo Picasso, Femme nue (Female Nude), 1910
“Drawing Surrealism"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
October 21, 2012 – January 6, 2013
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
January 25, 2013 – May 12, 2013
Federico Castellon, Composition with Self-Portrait, 1936 ca., 1938; Max Ernst, Trés jolie forêt allongée (Very Pretty Elongated Forest), 1925; Max Ernst, la femme 100 têtes ouvre sa manche auguste (The Hundred-Headed Woman opens her August Sleeve), 1929; René Magritte, Sketch for Les chants de Maldoror, 1945; Man Ray, Fil et aiguille (Needle and Thread), 1937; Wolfgang Paalen, Fumage (Smoke Painting), 1938 ca.
“L’art en guerre – France 1939-1947 de Picasso à Dubuffet"
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
October 12, 2012 – February 17, 2013
Pablo Picasso, Buffet: Still Life with Glasses and Cherries, 1943 (Paris, June 13)
“Dancing around the Bride: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp"
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
October 30, 2012 – January 21, 2013
Jasper Johns, Untitled, 1969, bequest of David Whitney
“Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
November 3, 2012 – February 3, 2013
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
February 28 – June 2, 2013
Jay DeFeo, After Image, 1970, gift of Glenn Fukushima; Untitled (cross), 1953, gift of Caroline Huber and Walter Hopps in honor of Dominique de Menil; Untitled (Samurai series), 1986, gift of Louisa Stude Sarofim in honor of Walter Hopps
“Robert Indiana"
Grand Palais, Paris
November 21, 2012 – February 13, 2013
Robert Indiana, Love Cross, 1968
The Menil Collection foyer. Photo: Hester + Hardaway