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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
Mar 16 – Nov 10, 2024
Main Building
Portraits of Women from the Collection
Main Building
A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil
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.
Feb 4, 2020
Membership
Menil Contemporaries Cocktails with a Curator: René Magritte
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Feb 7, 2020
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Magritte at the Menil
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Feb 9, 2020
Public Program
Curator Talk: Edouard Kopp on Jorinde Voigt’s Vertical
Menil Drawing Institute
3–4 p.m.
Feb 11, 2020
Membership
Menil by Moonlight
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Feb 12, 2020
Public Program
Carl Phillips Poetry Reading
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
7–8 p.m.
Feb 14, 2020
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
12–1 p.m.
Feb 20, 2020
Membership
Menil Society Preview of Think of Them as Spaces: Brice Marden’s Drawings
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7 p.m.
Public Program
Public Opening of Think of Them as Spaces: Brice Marden’s Drawings
Menil Drawing Institute
7–9 p.m.
Feb 21, 2020
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Menil Outgoing Loans
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Artist Talk: Brice Marden
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 22, 2020
Public Program
Da Camera of Houston Concert: Stop, Look, and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 28, 2020
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Dan Flavin
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
12–1 p.m.
Mar 3, 2020
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Partner Event: Bird Watching
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Mar 6, 2020
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: A Conservator’s Perspective: Surrealist Photography
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Mar 8, 2020
Public Program
Curator Talk: Paul R. Davis on Bird-Figure Shrines from West Africa
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Mar 11, 2020
Membership
Menil Society Exclusive Tour: Photography and the Surreal Imagination
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Public Program
Exhibition Reception: Photography and the Surreal Imagination
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Mar 13, 2020
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Brice Marden
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 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
Mar 16 – Nov 10, 2024
Main Building
Portraits of Women from the Collection
Main Building
A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil