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Dec 1, 2023

Member Noontime Talk: Roberto Matta Foyer Installation

Dec 4, 2023

Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part I

7:30–9:30 p.m.

Dec 5, 2023

Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part II

7:30–9:30 p.m.

Dec 6, 2023

Kyle Chayka: Minimalism, Between Art and Life

Menil Drawing Institute

Dec 9, 2023

Book Reading: Andrey Kurkov, “Grey Bees”

Dec 10, 2023

Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Hanne Darboven

Menil Drawing Institute

Dec 11, 2023

Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part III

7:30–9:30 p.m.

Dec 15, 2023

Member Noontime Talk: Menil Archives, Ephemera, and More

Jan 11

Resonant Beauty: Mathematical Foundations in Music with Loop38

Menil Drawing Institute

Jan 12

Member Noontime Talk: “Hanne Darboven—Writing Time”

Menil Drawing Institute

Jan 18

Artist Talk: Nari Ward

Jan 20

DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy”

Jan 21

Curator Talk: Danielle Smotherman Bennett on Shining Light on the Past, Chryssa, and Ancient Art

Jan 26

Member Noontime Talk: Medieval at the Menil

Feb 1

Marion Barthelme Lecture: Jenny Saville on Cy Twombly

Feb 2

Dance Party at the Menil

Menil Drawing Institute

Feb 3

DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “Chryssa & New York”

Feb 6

Menil Contemporaries

Cocktails with a Curator: “Longing, Grief, and Spirituality: Art Since 1980”

Feb 8

Sign of the Times: A Conversation on Neon and Chryssa

Feb 9

Member Noontime Talk: Drawings to Love

Menil Drawing Institute

Feb 15

Prudence Peiffer: The Slip

Feb 22

Menil by Moonlight and “Janet Sobel: All-Over” Member Preview

Feb 23

Member Noontime Talk: Paintings Conservation with Desi Dijkema

Feb 25

Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Marc Bauer

Menil Drawing Institute

Mar 1

Film Screening: “Geometry of Light”

Mar 7

Conversation: Helen Molesworth and Michelle White on “Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art”

Mar 8

Member Noontime Talk: Encounters

Mar 21

Menil Society Preview: “Ruth Asawa Through Line”

Menil Drawing Institute

Member Opening: “Ruth Asawa Through Line”

Menil Drawing Institute

Mar 22

Member Noontime Talk: Janet Sobel All-Over

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Mar 23

DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “Ruth Asawa Through Line”

Menil Drawing Institute

Mar 26

Menil Contemporaries

Menil Contemporaries Spring Mixer

Menil Drawing Institute

Mar 27

Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet

Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street

5:30–6:30 p.m.

Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet

Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street

7:30–8:30 p.m.

Apr 4

Artist Talk: Nancy Grossman

Apr 5

Member Noontime Talk: Out of Storage—Cypriot Art from the 1st Millennium BCE

Apr 6

Neighborhood Community Day

Apr 9

Menil Society Spring Cocktails

Menil Drawing Institute

Apr 11

Lecture: “Durable Fragility”: Ruth Asawa and the Materiality of Line

Menil Drawing Institute

Apr 14

Curator Talk: Natalie Dupêcher on Janet Sobel

Apr 18

Studio Menil Presents: Alphabet Soup

Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue

Apr 19

Member Noontime Talk: Kelly Montana on “Wall Drawing Series: Marc Bauer”

Menil Drawing Institute

Apr 24

Connecting Lines: Janet Sobel and Abstract Expressionism

Apr 25

Menil Society Preview: “Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions”

Member Opening: “Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions”

May 2

Artist Talk: Michelle Stuart

May 3

Member Noontime Talk: Paul Davis on Arts of the Pacific Islands

WITS (Writers in the Schools) Watchful Eye Reading

May 9

Panel Discussion: Ruth Asawa, Art & Life

Menil Drawing Institute

May 18

BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)

8:30–10:30 p.m.

May 19

Curator Talk: Edouard Kopp on Ruth Asawa

Menil Drawing Institute

May 23

The Modern Art Notes Podcast Live on “Janet Sobel: All-Over”

May 24

Member Noontime Talk: Edouard Kopp on Ruth Asawa

Menil Drawing Institute

May 30

Michelle Donnelly: Stamped, Rubbed, Imprinted: Drawing and Impressions of Place

Menil Drawing Institute

Jun 1

Workshop: Paper Folding Workshop with Joan Son (Beginning Basics)

Menil Drawing Institute

Jun 7

Member Noontime Talk: The Science of Conservation with Cory Rogge

Jun 8

Film Screening: Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood

Main Building Lawn

7:30–10:30 p.m.

Jun 11

Meet the Menil: New Member Reception

Jun 21

Member Noontime Talk: Menil Library Special Collection Spotlight with Donna Török-Oberholtzer

Jun 29

Workshop: Paper Folding Workshop with Joan Son (Traditional & Classic)

Menil Drawing Institute

Jul 13

Postponed: Workshop: Paper Folding with Joan Son (Containers & Geometrics)

Menil Drawing Institute

Jul 20

Moon Party

Jul 21

Curator Talk: Sophie Asakura on On Kawara

Jul 26

Member Noontime Talk: Portraits of Women from the Collection with Michelle White

Aug 4

Curator Talk: Michelle White on Alice Neel

Aug 6

Rescheduled: Menil Society Conservator’s Choice: Art’s Hidden Hazards

Aug 9

Member Noontime Talk: Abstraction after Modernism with Kelly Montana

Framing Abstraction: Short Films by Women 1920–1970

Aug 13

Menil Contemporaries

Cocktails with a Curator: “Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions"

Aug 16

Rescheduled: Member Noontime Talk: The Menil’s Print Collection with David Aylsworth

Aug 22

Book Reading and Conversation with Hari Kunzru

Aug 23

Member Noontime Talk: On Kawara with Sophie Asakura

Aug 31

Voter Registration

11 a.m.–7 p.m.

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Houston, TX 77006

713-525-9400

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