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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
Apr 1, 2023
Public Program
Neighborhood Community Day
Main Building
12–5 p.m.
Apr 5, 2023
Public Program
Lecture with Paul R. Davis: A “Mabuh” Headdress at the Menil
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Apr 13, 2023
Public Program
Artist Talk: Robert Longo
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Apr 16, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Clare Elliott on “The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps”
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Apr 20, 2023
Public Program
“Hyperreal: Gray Foy” Exhibition Reception
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Apr 26, 2023
Public Program
Drawn from the Classroom: Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow Lecture: Isabel Bird
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Apr 27, 2023
Public Program
Dr. Victoria Massie: Refracting Biological Vision: The Poetics of Genetic Cameroonian Ancestry
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 4, 2023
Public Program
In Conversation: Art Spiegelman on Si Lewen and Graphic Novels
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
May 6, 2023
Public Program
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)
Main Building
8:30–10:30 p.m.
May 12, 2023
Public Program
WITS (Writers in the Schools) Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
May 13, 2023
Public Program
Advanced Photography Workshop with Houston Center for Photography
Main Building
11 a.m.–4 p.m.
May 18, 2023
Public Program
“Seeking the Human Spirit” Performances by Houston Grand Opera
Main Building
5:30–8 p.m.
May 21, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Kirsten Marples on “Hyperreal: Gray Foy”
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Jun 8, 2023
Public Program
Dr. Joshua Furman Lecture: Antisemitism in the Archive: Documenting Prejudice in Houston Jewish History
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7 p.m.
Jun 15, 2023
Public Program
Book Talk: “Artists We’ve Known”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Jun 22, 2023
Public Program
Morgan-Menil Fellow Lecture: Brian T. Leahy
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7 p.m.
Jun 24, 2023
Public Program
Community Photography Workshop with Houston Center for Photography
Main Building
11 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Jun 25, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Si Lewen
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Jul 15, 2023
Public Program
Inprint Writing Workout on “Hyperreal: Gray Foy”
Menil Drawing Institute
11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Jul 16, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Danielle Smotherman Bennett on Etruscan Art
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Jul 20, 2023
Public Program
Film Screening: “The Ritchie Boys”
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8:30 p.m.
Aug 3, 2023
Public Program
“The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy” Exhibition Reception
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Aug 12, 2023
Public Program
Film Screening: Documents, Dreams, and Discards
Main Building
8–9:30 p.m.
Aug 13, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Sophie Asakura on Nestor Topchy
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Aug 24, 2023
Public Program
Lecture: Robert Cozzolino on The World Around Gray Foy
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Sep 10, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Natalie Dupêcher on the Foyer and Facets Installations
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Sep 16, 2023
Public Program
Studio Practice at the Menil with Nestor Topchy
Garage at 1509 Branard St.
12–4 p.m.
Sep 21, 2023
Public Program
Artist Talk: Marc Bauer
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Oct 7, 2023
Public Program
Studio Practice at the Menil with Nestor Topchy
Garage at 1509 Branard St.
12–4 p.m.
Oct 12, 2023
Public Program
Artist Talk: Nestor Topchy in Conversation with Timothy Morton
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 15, 2023
Public Program
Sounds to Live By
Main Building
3–6 p.m.
Public Program
Curator Talk: “Pacific Sounds” with Paul R. Davis
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Oct 21, 2023
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Outdoor Jazz Performance
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 2, 2023
Public Program
When The Art Speaks: Outspoken Bean, Russell Guess, Adriana, Myaan, and Samiyah
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Nov 4, 2023
Public Program
Studio Practice at the Menil with Nestor Topchy
Garage at 1509 Branard St.
12–4 p.m.
Nov 9, 2023
Public Program
Artist Talk: Robert Gober, Reflections on “The Meat Wagon”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 12, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Michelle White on Chryssa
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Nov 30, 2023
Public Program
On Drawing: Scores for Elsewhere: Experiments in Sound, Line, and Consciousness
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Dec 4, 2023
Public Program
Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part I
Main Building
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Dec 5, 2023
Public Program
Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part II
Main Building
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Dec 6, 2023
Public Program
Kyle Chayka: Minimalism, Between Art and Life
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Dec 9, 2023
Public Program
Book Reading: Andrey Kurkov, “Grey Bees”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 10, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Hanne Darboven
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Dec 11, 2023
Public Program
Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part III
Main Building
7:30–9:30 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