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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
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.
Jul 15, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: On New Work with Jamal Cyrus
Online
6–7 p.m.
Jul 29, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: Dan Flavin’s Light Sculpture
Online
6–7 p.m.
Aug 19, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: Through Jay DeFeo’s Lens
Online
6–7 p.m.
Sep 4, 2020
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: Photography and the Surreal Imagination
Online
12–1 p.m.
Sep 9, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: Unraveling a Tapestry of Africa
Online
6–7 p.m.
Sep 16, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: On Brice Marden’s Drawings
Online
6–7 p.m.
Sep 24, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: On Recent Work with Tony Lewis
Online
6–7 p.m.
Sep 25, 2020
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: On a Roll: Drawings Beyond the Frame
Online
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