Upcoming Exhibitions
Objects of Devotion
August 13–October 31, 2010
Drawing on various aspects of the Menil's permanent collection, "Objects of Devotion" explores the ways in which art supported religious practice in different times and places...
Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions
August 27–November 28, 2010
"Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions" celebrates the ongoing addition of important works of art to the Menil Collection by gift, purchase, and bequest. While some of these works have been included in the exhibitions over the past several years, many have only rarely been shown...
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Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage
October 22, 2010–January 30, 2011
The German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) remains one of the most influential figures of the international avant-garde. In the years following the First World War he coined the term “Merz,” in reference to his ambition to “make connections …between everything in the world.”...
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1968
November 19, 2010–February 20, 2011
Painter Vija Celmins, born in 1938 in Riga, Latvia, has lived and worked primarily in New York since 1981.
She immigrated to the United States at the age of ten with her family, settling in Indiana. After attending the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, Celmins completed her MFA at the UCLA in 1965...
Ancestors of the Lake: Art from Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay
May 6–August 28, 2011
European navigators began traveling to the coastal areas of New Guinea in the sixteenth century, but it was not until 1858 that the Dutch Etna Expedition reached Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani island (situated on the north coast of the island in the present-day Indonesian province of Papua)...
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective
March 1, 2012–June 17, 2012
The first-ever retrospective of the artist’s drawings, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, will be the first major one-person exhibition organized by the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center.