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Oct 1, 2015

Menil Society: Preview of MicroCosmos

East Temporary Gallery of the Main Museum

Exhibition Opening Event

Opening MicroCosmos with Performance

Oct 2, 2015

Member Noontime Talk on The Infinity Machine

Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street

Oct 6, 2015

State of the Museum

Foyer of the Main Museum

Oct 8, 2015

The Yup'ik Dance Masks Tradition with Yup'ik dancer Chuna McIntyre and Curator Sean Mooney

Menil Collection

Oct 9, 2015

Member Noontime Talk with Clare Elliott on Surrealism

Surrealism Gallery of the Main Museum

Pythagoras’ Music of the Spheres

Menil Collection

Oct 10, 2015

Stop, Look and Listen!

Outdoor Musical Performance Latin Jazz Under the Portico

Menil Collection

Oct 14, 2015

Thomas J. Lax Lecture

Menil Collection

Oct 15, 2015

Discussion: Thinking with Objects about Affect

Menil Collection

Oct 16, 2015

Member Noontime Talk with Eric Wolf on the Menil Library

Foyer of the Main Museum

Oct 23, 2015

Member Noontime Talk with Michelle White on Modern and Contemporary

Modern and Contemporary Gallery of the Main Museum

Charles Ray Thoughts on Sculpture

Oct 25, 2015

Who R U? Annual Children’s Halloween Party

Menil Collection Main Building

This is a ticketed event

Oct 30, 2015

Member Noontime Talk with David Breslin on Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street

Conversation with an Artist: Sam Gilliam

Menil Collection

Oct 31, 2015

Stop, Look and Listen! Concert

Chamber Music from the 19th Century to the Present

Menil Collection

Nov 3, 2015

Series of Introductions with Sean Mooney and Jeff Myers

Nov 6, 2015

Member Noontime Talk with Clare Elliott on Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now

West 80 X 80 Gallery of the Main Museum

Nov 7, 2015

Glenn Kotche

Solo Percussion Performance

Menil Collection

Nov 11, 2015

The World of Salvador Dalí with Danielle Johnson

Menil Collection

Nov 13, 2015

Member Noontime Talk on the Life and Archives of Rosalind Constable

Nov 16, 2015

Desired Constellations Short Films

Menil Collection

Nov 20, 2015

Member Noontime Talk with Haley Berkman on the Dan Flavin Installation

Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue

Edmund de Waal Lecture and Booksigning

Menil Collection

Nov 23, 2015

Marion Barthelme Lecture Series: Yve-Alain Bois on Ellsworth Kelly

Menil Collection

Dec 2, 2015

Sean Mooney Introducing Edmund Carpenter

Dec 4, 2015

Member Noontime Talk with Clare Elliott on Salvador Dalí

Dec 9, 2015

Menil Contemporaries

Menil Contemporaries: Holiday Party

Dec 11, 2015

Member Noontime Talk with Brad Epley and Kari Dodson on Outdoor Sculpture

Dec 15, 2015

Members’ Opening: The Precarious

6:30–8:30 p.m.

Jan 15, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on The Precarious

Jan 19, 2016

Menil Contemporaries

Cocktails with a Curator featuring The Secret of the Hanging Egg

Jan 22, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Picasso at the Menil

Charles Ray: Thoughts on Sculpture

Jan 29, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Three Month Old Baby Python

Conversation with an Artist: Danh Vō

Jan 30, 2016

Museum Experience Day

Main Building and Campus

11 a.m.–6 p.m.

Feb 5, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on MicroCosmos

Feb 9, 2016

The Precarious, the Social, the Parochial: David Breslin and David Leslie in Conversation

Feb 12, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Modern & Contemporary

Two Films by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel

7:30–9:30 p.m.

Feb 18, 2016

Exhibition Preview of William N. Copley

Menil by Moonlight featuring Members’ Opening of CLPY

Feb 19, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Menil Icons

The World According to CPLY

Feb 20, 2016

Stop, Look, and Listen! with Da Camera of Houston

Feb 26, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Witnesses to a Surrealist Vision

Sandra Zalman Reading and Book Signing

Menil Bookstore

Feb 29, 2016

Copley, Comics, and Alternative Figures in American Art

Mar 4, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Works on Paper

Charles Ray: Thoughts on Sculpture

Mar 10, 2016

James Crump Film Screening of Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art

Mar 11, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on William N. Copley

Mar 12, 2016

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s Teen Council Exhibition Walkthrough of Root Shift

Stop, Look, and Listen! with Da Camera of Houston

Precarious Sounds

Mar 14, 2016

Ewa Zebrowski Reading and Book Signing

Menil Bookstore

Curator Peter Galassi on the Work of Henri Cartier-Bresson

Mar 18, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Dalí & Surrealism

Mar 24, 2016

Marfa Dialogues/Houston

Mar 31, 2016

Men of Menil

Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue

This is a ticketed event

Apr 1, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Root Shift

Apr 7, 2016

Spring Cocktails

Apr 8, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Menil Publications Then and Now

Apr 9, 2016

Stop, Look, and Listen! with Da Camera of Houston

Celebrating Beethoven

Apr 13, 2016

CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank

Apr 14, 2016

CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank

Menil Contemporaries

Spring Mixer

CounterCurrent: Fault Diagnosis

SBC Properties, 4215 Mandell Street

Apr 15, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Michael Heizer Sculptures

CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank

CounterCurrent: Fault Diagnosis

SBC Properties, 4215 Mandell Street

8:30–10:30 p.m.

Apr 16, 2016

CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank

CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank

Vivian L. Smith Foundation Symposium: TRESPASS

Apr 17, 2016

CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank

CounterCurrent: This Page Left Intentionally Blank

Apr 22, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Life Is Once, Forever

Maggie Nicols Performance at Richmond Hall

Richmond Hall
1500 Richmond Avenue

Apr 29, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Twombly & Conservation

Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street

Dionysia 2016: A Return Home

May 6, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Drawings in Depth

May 7, 2016

MenilFest!

Main Building and Campus

11 a.m.–5 p.m.

Stop, Look, and Listen!

May 10, 2016

Friends of the Library

Annual Friends of the Library Reception

Texas Gallery, 2012 Peden Street

May 13, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Jasper Johns

May 14, 2016

BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)

May 17, 2016

Menil Contemporaries

Cocktails with a Curator: The World According to CPLY

May 19, 2016

WITS Watchful Eye Reading

May 20, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on Flavin & Conservation

Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue

May 21, 2016

Conversation: Francis Alÿs and Lynne Cooke

May 27, 2016

BYOB (Bring You Own Beamer) Rescheduled Date

8:30–10:30 p.m.

Jun 2, 2016

Menil Contemporaries

Menil Contemporaries Campaign Fund Dinner

This is a ticketed event

Jun 9, 2016

Preview of As Essential as Dreams

Exhibition Opening Event

Public Opening of As Essential as Dreams

Jun 14, 2016

New Members’ Reception

Jun 15, 2016

CANCELED Visionary and Self-Taught Art in the Community

Jun 17, 2016

Member Noontime Talk on As Essential as Dreams

Jun 24, 2016

An Outdoor Celebration of As Essential as Dreams with Lonnie Holley

Discovery Green
1500 McKinney, Downtown Houston

7:30–10:30 p.m.

Jun 25, 2016

Eva Hesse Film Screening at MFAH

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium

The Menil Collection

1533 Sul Ross St.
Houston, TX 77006

713-525-9400

Wed–Sun 11am–7pm

Free Admission

Wed–Sun 11am–7pm

Free Admission

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