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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
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.
Jan 11
Public Program
Resonant Beauty: Mathematical Foundations in Music with Loop38
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Jan 18
Public Program
Artist Talk: Nari Ward
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Jan 20
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy”
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Jan 21
Public Program
Curator Talk: Danielle Smotherman Bennett on Shining Light on the Past, Chryssa, and Ancient Art
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Feb 1
Public Program
Marion Barthelme Lecture: Jenny Saville on Cy Twombly
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Feb 2
Public Program
Dance Party at the Menil
Menil Drawing Institute
7–10 p.m.
Feb 3
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “Chryssa & New York”
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 8
Public Program
Sign of the Times: A Conversation on Neon and Chryssa
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Feb 15
Public Program
Prudence Peiffer: The Slip
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 25
Public Program
Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Marc Bauer
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Mar 1
Public Program
Film Screening: “Geometry of Light”
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Mar 7
Public Program
Conversation: Helen Molesworth and Michelle White on “Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Mar 22
Public Program
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Main Building
3–7 p.m.
Mar 23
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “Ruth Asawa Through Line”
Menil Drawing Institute
3–4 p.m.
Mar 27
Public Program
Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Public Program
Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Apr 4
Public Program
Artist Talk: Nancy Grossman
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Apr 6
Public Program
Neighborhood Community Day
Main Building
1–5 p.m.
Apr 11
Public Program
Lecture: “Durable Fragility”: Ruth Asawa and the Materiality of Line
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Apr 14
Public Program
Curator Talk: Natalie Dupêcher on Janet Sobel
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Apr 24
Public Program
Connecting Lines: Janet Sobel and Abstract Expressionism
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