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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
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.
Jun 3, 2021
Menil Society
Menil Society Reception for “Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon”
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Jun 5, 2021
Public Program
“Specters of Noon” Community Day
Main Building Lawn
3–6 p.m.
Jun 11, 2021
Membership
Members Virtual Noontime Talk: Greek Vase Painting Techniques: Objects in the Menil Collection
Online
12–1 p.m.
Jun 16, 2021
Public Program
Artist Talk: Alice Aycock
Online
1–2 p.m.
Jun 20, 2021
Public Program
Sounds to Live By: Sun Songs
Main Building Lawn
4–6 p.m.
Jun 22, 2021
Public Program
In Dialogue: On an Ancient Votive Figure
Online
1–2 p.m.
Jul 9, 2021
Membership
Members Noontime Talk: Dream Monuments
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Jul 29, 2021
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of “Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes”
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening of “Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes”
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Aug 12, 2021
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Cocktails with a Curator: Dan Flavin at Richmond Hall
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
6–7:30 p.m.
Aug 18, 2021
Public Program
Artist Talk: Ken Lum on Monuments
Online
1–2 p.m.
Aug 20, 2021
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Modern & Contemporary
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Aug 24, 2021
Public Program
Texas Talks Art: Rick Lowe with Michelle White
Online
12–1 p.m.
Aug 27, 2021
Public Program
Land Mark Land Scape
West Main Green
8–9:30 p.m.
Sep 1, 2021
Public Program
In Dialogue: On the Chimú Prisoner Textile
Online
1–2 p.m.
Sep 9, 2021
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s”
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening of “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s”
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Sep 10, 2021
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Public Opening of “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s”
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Sep 24, 2021
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Measuring Color Change
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 7, 2021
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Partner Collection Visit: The Lancaster Hotel
The Lancaster Hotel
6:30–8 p.m.
Oct 8, 2021
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: 18th Century Paintings and Rare Books
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 9, 2021
Public Program
Da Camera: Stop, Look, and Listen!
Main Building Lawn
3–4 p.m.
Oct 15, 2021
Public Program
Zoila Mendoza Lecture: The Folkloric Arts of the Peruvian Andes
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 16, 2021
Public Program
“Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes” Community Day
Main Building Lawn
3–6:30 p.m.
Oct 22, 2021
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Ariana Reines Poetry Reading
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 28, 2021
Special Event
Party in the Park
Menil Park
This is a ticketed event
7–10 p.m.
Oct 29, 2021
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of “Draw Like a Machine” and “Spatial Awareness”
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening of “Draw Like a Machine” and “Spatial Awareness”
Menil Drawing Institute
7–9 p.m.
Nov 2, 2021
Public Program
Hilton Als Lecture: Part 1 of 2
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Nov 4, 2021
Public Program
Hilton Als Lecture: Part 2 of 2
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Nov 5, 2021
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Draw Like a Machine: Pop Art, 1952-1975
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Nov 9, 2021
Menil Society
Menil Society Curator’s Choice: Of Gods and Giants - A Wine Cooler in the Menil
Main Building
5:30–7 p.m.
Nov 10, 2021
Public Program
Filming Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely: A Screening and Conversation with Francois de Menil
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Nov 13, 2021
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen!
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 17, 2021
Public Program
Artist Talk: Mel Chin
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 19, 2021
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Exploring the Human Form with Cycladic Figures
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Dec 9, 2021
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview of “Bruce Davidson’s Photographs”
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Public Program
Public Opening of “Bruce Davidson’s Photographs”
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Dec 10, 2021
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Surrealism
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Dec 11, 2021
Public Program
“Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s:” Art, Music, and a Monster Movie
Main Building Lawn
4–7:30 p.m.
Dec 13, 2021
Public Program
“On Freedom”: A Reading and Conversation with Maggie Nelson
Online
6–7 p.m.
Dec 15, 2021
Public Program
On Drawing: Trends in Contemporary Drawing
Online
1–2 p.m.
Dec 17, 2021
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: The Conservation of Niki de Saint Phalle’s Shooting Paintings
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jan 14, 2022
Membership
Virtual Member Noontime Talk: Exploring Robert Gober’s Lasting Monuments to Ephemera
Online
12–1 p.m.
Jan 23, 2022
Public Program
Fool in the Fairytale: Niki de Saint Phalle Films
Online
Feb 1, 2022
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Cocktails with a Curator: “Bruce Davidson’s Photographs”
Main Building
6–7:30 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
Mar 16 – Nov 10, 2024
Main Building
Portraits of Women from the Collection
Main Building
A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Outdoor Sculpture at the Menil