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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
Jun 2, 2022
Public Program
Lecture: Leslie Umberger on Self-Taught Artists
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Jun 4, 2022
Public Program
The Menil Collection’s 35th Birthday Party
Main Building Lawn
4–6 p.m.
Jun 8, 2022
Public Program
Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow Lecture: Filippo Bosco
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Jun 12, 2022
Public Program
Curator Talk: Edouard Kopp on Joseph E. Yoakum’s Landscapes
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Jun 23, 2022
Public Program
In Conversation: Pete Gershon and Edouard Kopp on Visionary Artists Joseph E. Yoakum and Jeff McKissick
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Jul 10, 2022
Public Program
Curator Talk: Natalie Dupêcher on Meret Oppenheim’s Surrealist Work
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Jul 16, 2022
Public Program
Inprint Writing Workout
Main Building
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Aug 6, 2022
Public Program
Inprint Writing Workout
Menil Drawing Institute
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Aug 14, 2022
Public Program
Curator Talk: Michelle White on Cy Twombly’s “Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)”
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
3–3:30 p.m.
Aug 26, 2022
Public Program
Film Screening: Octopus’s Garden
Main Building
8:30–10 p.m.
Sep 11, 2022
Public Program
Curator Talk: Natalie Dupêcher on Meret Oppenheim
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Sep 15, 2022
Public Program
Postponed - Artist Talk: Nancy Grossman
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Sep 22, 2022
Public Program
On Drawing: Renee Gladman
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Sep 30, 2022
Public Program
“Samuel Fosso: African Spirits” Exhibition Reception
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Oct 6, 2022
Public Program
Artist Talk: Samuel Fosso in conversation with Mark Sealy
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 8, 2022
Public Program
DACAMERA Concert: Jazz on the Lawn
Main Building Lawn
3–4 p.m.
Oct 16, 2022
Public Program
Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Michael Heizer
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Oct 19, 2022
Public Program
Artist Talk: Mel Bochner
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Oct 30, 2022
Public Program
Sounds to Live By: Outdoor Music
Main Building Lawn
3–6 p.m.
Nov 3, 2022
Public Program
In Conversation: Michael Harrison on Walter De Maria and Music
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 5, 2022
Public Program
Michael Harrison Performance: “Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation” (2007)
Main Building
3–4:30 p.m.
Nov 11, 2022
Public Program
Film Screening: Al Santana’s “Voices of the Gods”
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Nov 12, 2022
Public Program
DACAMERA Concert: Stop, Look, and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 13, 2022
Public Program
Curator Talk: Paul R. Davis on Samuel Fosso
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Nov 18, 2022
Public Program
Panel Discussion: Cataloguing Robert Motherwell’s Drawings
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7 p.m.
Dec 8, 2022
Public Program
Edmund Carpenter and “Witnesses to a Surrealist Vision”: A Look Behind the Curtain
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 11, 2022
Public Program
Curator Talk: Michelle White on Walter De Maria
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Dec 13, 2022
Public Program
DACAMERA Alumni Artists in Concert
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jan 8, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Edouard Kopp on Robert Motherwell
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Jan 12, 2023
Public Program
Conversation: Artists on Robert Motherwell
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7:30 p.m.
Jan 18, 2023
Public Program
In Dialogue: “The Painted Prince”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 2, 2023
Public Program
Lecture: Donna De Salvo on Walter De Maria
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 5, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Natalie Dupecher on Mildred Thompson and Takis
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Feb 9, 2023
Public Program
Lecture: Edith Devaney on Robert Motherwell
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Feb 16, 2023
Public Program
“Art of the Cameroon Grassfields, A Living Heritage in Houston” Exhibition Reception
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Feb 24, 2023
Public Program
West African Film Festival Double Feature Screening
Main Building Lawn
6:30–9 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