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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
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.
Oct 6, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: Helen Frankenthaler’s Abstraction
Online
6–7 p.m.
Oct 9, 2020
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: Helen Frankenthaler’s Hybrid Vigor
Online
12–1 p.m.
Oct 20, 2020
Public Program
Hybrid Vigor: Frankenthaler and Ravel
Online
7–8 p.m.
Oct 23, 2020
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: The Book in the Art Museum
Online
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Outdoor Film Screening: Exquisite Cinema of the Surreal
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Oct 27, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: On Specters of Noon
Online
6–7 p.m.
Oct 30, 2020
Special Event
Launch Event & Film Screening with Zainob + Mathew Create
West Main Green
5:30–7 p.m.
Nov 2, 2020
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Film Screening
West Main Green
6–8 p.m.
Nov 6, 2020
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: A Hot, One-Legged Hunter
Online
12–1 p.m.
Nov 12, 2020
Membership
Menil Society Friend and Benefactor Viewing of “Silent Revolutions”
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Nov 13, 2020
Membership
Menil Society Associate and Fellow Viewing of “Silent Revolutions”
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Nov 17, 2020
Public Program
Sarah Rothenberg, “The Departing Landscape”
Online
7–8 p.m.
Nov 20, 2020
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: Interior of a Cathedral
Online
12–1 p.m.
Nov 21, 2020
Public Program
Musical Performance: Stop, Look and Listen!: Jazz on the Lawn
Main Building Lawn
3–4 p.m.
Dec 2, 2020
Public Program
Book Talk: “Modern in the Making” with Sandra Zalman
Online
2–3 p.m.
Dec 4, 2020
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: A Positively Illuminating Talk About Light Art
Online
12–1 p.m.
Dec 8, 2020
Public Program
In Dialogue: On Aimé Césaire and “Specters of Noon”
Online
6–7 p.m.
Public Program
DACAMERA at the Menil: Cy Twombly and Music
Online
7–8 p.m.
Dec 9, 2020
Menil Society
Menil Society Conservator’s Choice: Mark Rothko’s “The Green Stripe”
Online
6–7 p.m.
Jan 8, 2021
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: Behind the Scenes of Allora & Calzadilla
Online
12–1 p.m.
Jan 13, 2021
Public Program
In Dialogue: Funerary Figures and Remembering the Living with Jean-Philippe Beaulieu
Online
1–2 p.m.
Jan 22, 2021
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: Beauty is in the Hand of the Beholder: A Mirror Depicting the Judgment of Paris
Online
12–1 p.m.
Feb 5, 2021
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: Surrealism
Online
12–1 p.m.
Feb 10, 2021
Public Program
In Dialogue: On Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century
Online
12–1 p.m.
Feb 24, 2021
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries, Cocktails with a Curator Inside Look: Richmond Hall
Online
6–7 p.m.
Mar 2, 2021
Public Program
In Dialogue: On Acedia and “Specters of Noon”
Online
6–7 p.m.
Mar 5, 2021
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: Silent Revolutions
Online
12–1 p.m.
Mar 9, 2021
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Virtual Photo Tour of Specters of Noon
Online
6–7 p.m.
Mar 10, 2021
Public Program
In Dialogue: On Byzantine Icons
Online
1–2 p.m.
Mar 19, 2021
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: Painting Conservation
Online
12–1 p.m.
Mar 24, 2021
Public Program
On Drawing: “Fluxus Forms” with Natilee Harren
Online
1–2 p.m.
Apr 7, 2021
Public Program
Symposium on Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century: Keynote Lecture by Professor Emily Braun
Online
12–1 p.m.
Apr 8, 2021
Public Program
Symposium on Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century: Panel on Women Artists
Online
12–1:30 p.m.
Apr 9, 2021
Public Program
Symposium on Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century: Panel on the Interconnections Between American and Italian Artists
Online
12–1:30 p.m.
Apr 11, 2021
Public Program
Outdoor Screening: Roberto Rossellini’s “Paisan”
Main Building Lawn
8–10 p.m.
Apr 13, 2021
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries, Cocktails with a Curator Inside Look: Joan Miró
Online
6–7 p.m.
Apr 16, 2021
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: Rothko Conservation with Brad Epley
Online
12–1 p.m.
Apr 17, 2021
Public Program
[Postponed] Stop, Look and Listen!: Will Cruz and Quattro
Main Building Lawn
4–5 p.m.
Public Program
Book Launch: “Specters of Noon” Catalogue
Menil Bookstore
6–7 p.m.
Public Program
Outdoor Screening with Aurora Picture Show: Allora & Calzadilla Films
Main Building Lawn
8–9 p.m.
Apr 21, 2021
Public Program
Morgan-Menil Biennial Lecture: Charlotte Healy
Online
1–2 p.m.
Apr 22, 2021
Menil Society
Menil Society Drawing Room Session: Inside Parmigianino’s “Study for Saint Roch, Two Angels”
Online
6–7 p.m.
Apr 24, 2021
Public Program
Outdoor Screening: “Sun of the Soil”
Main Building Lawn
8–9 p.m.
Apr 27, 2021
Public Program
Film Discussion: “Sun of the Soil”
Online
1–2 p.m.
Apr 29, 2021
Special Event
Constellations
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
This is a ticketed event
7–10 p.m.
Apr 30, 2021
Membership
Virtual Members Noontime Talk: Object Biographies: A Book Six Years in the Making
Online
12–1 p.m.
May 3, 2021
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries, Framing the Collection
Online
1–2 p.m.
May 4, 2021
Public Program
On Drawing: Paper, A Foundation to Drawing with Jan Burandt and Cathleen Baker
Online
1–2 p.m.
May 6, 2021
Menil Society
Menil Society Spring Cocktails
Menil Drawing Institute
6:30–8 p.m.
May 8, 2021
Public Program
Outdoor Music: Stop, Look and Listen! Family Concert
Main Building Lawn
3–4 p.m.
May 11, 2021
Menil Society
Menil Society Conservator’s Choice: Inside the Conservation Lab
Online
1–2 p.m.
May 12, 2021
Public Program
Artist Talk: Roni Horn in Conversation with Michelle White
Online
6–7 p.m.
May 14, 2021
Membership
Members Virtual Noontime Talk: Object Status: All the Things in a Museum
Online
12–1 p.m.
May 15, 2021
Public Program
Outdoor Screening: BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)
Main Building Lawn
8:30–10:30 p.m.
May 18, 2021
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Spring Mixer
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
May 20, 2021
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of “Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s”
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7:30 p.m.
May 21, 2021
Membership
Member Reception of Dream Monuments
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
May 24, 2021
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look and Listen! Concert: Celebrating Rothko
Online
10 a.m.–8 p.m.
May 26, 2021
Public Program
Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow Lecture: Saskia Verlaan
Online
1–2 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