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Current Exhibitions
Oct 11, 2024 – Apr 19, 2025
Main Building
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Fragments of Memory
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms
On view through August 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo
Main Building
A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil
May 3, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Surrealism and Little Magazines
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
May 10, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Mesoamerican Objects
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
May 16, 2019
Public Program
Vivian L. Smith Foundation Symposium: Little Magazines: The Revolution Will Be Circulated
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
May 17, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Menil Campus
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Marion Barthelme Lecture: Lucy Lippard
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 22, 2019
Public Program
Writers in the Schools, The Watchful Eye Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 24, 2019
Public Program
Menil Bookstore Trunk Show: Kari Breitigam
Menil Bookstore
6–8 p.m.
Jun 5, 2019
Public Program
Artist Talk with Mineko Grimmer
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jun 13, 2019
Public Program
Live at the Menil: Mineko Grimmer x John Cage
Main Building
5:30–6 p.m.
Public Program
Live at the Menil: Mineko Grimmer x John Cage
Main Building
6:15–6:45 p.m.
Jun 14, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Mineko Grimmer
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Live at the Menil: Mineko Grimmer x John Cage
Main Building
5:30–6 p.m.
Public Program
Live at the Menil: Mineko Grimmer x John Cage
Main Building
6:15–6:45 p.m.
Jun 15, 2019
Public Program
Live at the Menil: Mineko Grimmer x John Cage
Main Building
5:30–6 p.m.
Public Program
Live at the Menil: Mineko Grimmer x John Cage
Main Building
6:15–6:45 p.m.
Jun 18, 2019
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Cocktails with a Curator: Mineko Grimmer
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Jun 24, 2019
Membership
Meet the Menil
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Jul 12, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Roni Horn, Wits’ End Sampler
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Aug 16, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk on Joe Overstreet and the Contemporary Gallery
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Aug 28, 2019
Public Program
Fred Baldwin Talk and Book Signing: Dear Mr. Picasso: An Illustrated Love Affair with Freedom
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Sep 4, 2019
Public Program
Artist Talk: Robyn O'Neil
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Sep 8, 2019
Public Program
Curator Talk with Michelle White on Cy Twombly’s Treatise on the Veil
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Sep 12, 2019
Membership
Member Opening: Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale
Main Building
6–9 p.m.
Sep 13, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Public Opening Celebration: Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale
Main Building
6–9 p.m.
Sep 14, 2019
Public Program
Community Day: Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale
Main Building Lawn
11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Sep 16, 2019
Membership
Menil Society Exclusive Tour: Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Sep 20, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Painting Conservation*
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 27, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Dorothea Tanning
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 28, 2019
Public Program
Artist Talk: Jorinde Voigt
Menil Drawing Institute
5–6 p.m.
Oct 1, 2019
Public Program
Book Launch and Discussion: Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Oct 3, 2019
Membership
Menil Society Preview of Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7 p.m.
Public Program
Public Opening of Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect
Menil Drawing Institute
7–9 p.m.
Oct 4, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Imaging Services
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 7, 2019
Membership
Menil Contemporaries Cocktails with a Curator: Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Oct 10, 2019
Public Program
Reading and Book Launch: Paul Otremba’s Levee
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 11, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Dorothea Tanning’s Books
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 12, 2019
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen! Jazz on the Lawn
Main Building Lawn
3–4 p.m.
Oct 13, 2019
Public Program
Curator Talk with Clare Elliott on Dorothea Tanning
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Oct 18, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Exploring Works on Paper*
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 25, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Jean-Jacques Lequeu
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Oct 27, 2019
Special Event
Who R U? Menil Children’s Costume Party
Menil Park
This is a ticketed event
3–5 p.m.
Oct 30, 2019
Public Program
Conservation and the Artist’s Voice
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 1, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Cleaning Sensitive Paint Surfaces*
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Nov 7, 2019
Public Program
An Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Professors Howard and Frances Morphy with Curator of Collections Paul R. Davis on Mapping Culture and Language
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 8, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Siah Armajani
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Nov 10, 2019
Public Program
Curator Talk with Paul R. Davis on Kunmanara (Mumu Mike) Williams
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Nov 14, 2019
Public Program
Barry Bergdoll Lecture: Jean-Jacques Lequeu: The Architectural Imagination in the Age of Reason
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Nov 15, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Menil Energy House
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Public Opening of Collection Close-Up: Of Heaven and Earth
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 16, 2019
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look and Listen! Young Artists Respond to Mapa Wiya
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 21, 2019
Membership
Members’ Concert: Maki Namekawa Performs Philip Glass’s First Piano Sonata
Main Building
This is a ticketed event
7–9 p.m.
Nov 22, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Of Heaven and Earth
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Concert: Maki Namekawa Performs Philip Glass’s First Piano Sonata
Main Building
This is a ticketed event
7–8:30 p.m.
Dec 5, 2019
Public Program
Professor Fred Myers Lecture: The Work of Art: The Gift and Invitation of Indigenous Australian Art
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 6, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Surrealism
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Special Event
Menil Contemporaries Holiday Party: The Menil Goes Pop!
Main Building
This is a ticketed event
9 p.m.–12 a.m.
Dec 8, 2019
Public Program
Curator Talk: Edouard Kopp on Jean-Jacques Lequeu
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Dec 11, 2019
Public Program
Book Launch of Drawing Is Everything: Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute
Menil Drawing Institute
5–7 p.m.
Dec 13, 2019
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Jorinde Voigt’s Vertical
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Pretti.Cool Trunk Show at Menil Bookstore
Menil Bookstore
6–8 p.m.
Dec 14, 2019
Public Program
Gallery Talk: Dr. Nassos Papalexandrou on Art of the Ancient World
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Jan 9, 2020
Public Program
On Art and Birds: Artist Joseph Havel in Conversation with Curator Paul R. Davis
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 10, 2020
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Relationship of Paper and Drawing*
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Jan 12, 2020
Public Program
Curator Talk: Irene Shum on Siah Armajani’s Written Minneapolis (The Last Tomb)
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Jan 17, 2020
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Films from the Menil Archives*
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jan 24, 2020
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Richard Serra
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Film Screening: Abbas Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Jan 31, 2020
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Byzantine Icons
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Artist Talk: Glenn Ligon
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Current Exhibitions
Oct 11, 2024 – Apr 19, 2025
Main Building
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Fragments of Memory
Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms
On view through August 2025
Menil Drawing Institute
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo
Main Building
A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil