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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
Aug 3, 2023
Public Program
“The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy” Exhibition Reception
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Aug 11, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Art of the Ancient World
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Aug 12, 2023
Public Program
Film Screening: Documents, Dreams, and Discards
Main Building
8–9:30 p.m.
Aug 13, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Sophie Asakura on Nestor Topchy
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Aug 15, 2023
Menil Contemporaries
Cocktails with a Curator: Nestor Topchy
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Aug 24, 2023
Public Program
Lecture: Robert Cozzolino on The World Around Gray Foy
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Aug 25, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Exhibition Design
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 8, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Sophie Asakura on “The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy”
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 10, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Natalie Dupêcher on the Foyer and Facets Installations
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Sep 16, 2023
Public Program
Studio Practice at the Menil with Nestor Topchy
Garage at 1509 Branard St.
12–4 p.m.
Sep 21, 2023
Public Program
Artist Talk: Marc Bauer
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Sep 22, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 28, 2023
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview: “Chryssa & New York”
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening: “Chryssa & New York”
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Oct 5, 2023
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Partners: On Display – Inside the Conservation Studio
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Oct 7, 2023
Public Program
Studio Practice at the Menil with Nestor Topchy
Garage at 1509 Branard St.
12–4 p.m.
Oct 12, 2023
Public Program
Artist Talk: Nestor Topchy in Conversation with Timothy Morton
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 13, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Michelle White on “Chryssa & New York”
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 15, 2023
Public Program
Sounds to Live By
Main Building
3–6 p.m.
Public Program
Curator Talk: “Pacific Sounds” with Paul R. Davis
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Oct 19, 2023
Special Event
Party in the Park
Menil Park
This is a ticketed event
7–10 p.m.
Oct 21, 2023
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Outdoor Jazz Performance
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Oct 26, 2023
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview: “Hanne Darboven—Writing Time”
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening: “Hanne Darboven—Writing Time”
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8:30 p.m.
Oct 27, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: She Blinded Me With Science
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Nov 2, 2023
Public Program
When The Art Speaks: Outspoken Bean, Russell Guess, Adriana, Myaan, and Samiyah
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Nov 3, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Interactive Art, Cylinder Seals, and Rolling Impressions
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Nov 4, 2023
Public Program
Studio Practice at the Menil with Nestor Topchy
Garage at 1509 Branard St.
12–4 p.m.
Nov 9, 2023
Public Program
Artist Talk: Robert Gober, Reflections on “The Meat Wagon”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 12, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Michelle White on Chryssa
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Nov 17, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Chryssa & Neon
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Nov 30, 2023
Public Program
On Drawing: Scores for Elsewhere: Experiments in Sound, Line, and Consciousness
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Dec 1, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Roberto Matta Foyer Installation
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Dec 4, 2023
Public Program
Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part I
Main Building
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Dec 5, 2023
Public Program
Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part II
Main Building
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Dec 6, 2023
Public Program
Kyle Chayka: Minimalism, Between Art and Life
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Dec 9, 2023
Public Program
Book Reading: Andrey Kurkov, “Grey Bees”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Dec 10, 2023
Public Program
Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Hanne Darboven
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Dec 11, 2023
Public Program
Beethoven for All: Piano Sonatas Part III
Main Building
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Dec 15, 2023
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Menil Archives, Ephemera, and More
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jan 11
Public Program
Resonant Beauty: Mathematical Foundations in Music with Loop38
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Jan 12
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: “Hanne Darboven—Writing Time”
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Jan 18
Public Program
Artist Talk: Nari Ward
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Jan 20
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy”
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Jan 21
Public Program
Curator Talk: Danielle Smotherman Bennett on Shining Light on the Past, Chryssa, and Ancient Art
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Jan 26
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Medieval at the Menil
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Feb 1
Public Program
Marion Barthelme Lecture: Jenny Saville on Cy Twombly
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Feb 2
Public Program
Dance Party at the Menil
Menil Drawing Institute
7–10 p.m.
Feb 3
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “Chryssa & New York”
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 6
Menil Contemporaries
Cocktails with a Curator: “Longing, Grief, and Spirituality: Art Since 1980”
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Feb 8
Public Program
Sign of the Times: A Conversation on Neon and Chryssa
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Feb 9
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Drawings to Love
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Feb 15
Public Program
Prudence Peiffer: The Slip
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 22
Membership
Menil by Moonlight and “Janet Sobel: All-Over” Member Preview
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Feb 23
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Paintings Conservation with Desi Dijkema
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Feb 25
Public Program
Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Marc Bauer
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Mar 1
Public Program
Film Screening: “Geometry of Light”
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Mar 7
Public Program
Conversation: Helen Molesworth and Michelle White on “Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art”
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Mar 8
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Encounters
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Mar 21
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview: “Ruth Asawa Through Line”
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening: “Ruth Asawa Through Line”
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8:30 p.m.
Mar 22
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Janet Sobel All-Over
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Main Building
3–7 p.m.
Mar 23
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! Responding to “Ruth Asawa Through Line”
Menil Drawing Institute
3–4 p.m.
Mar 26
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries Spring Mixer
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Mar 27
Public Program
Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Public Program
Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Apr 4
Public Program
Artist Talk: Nancy Grossman
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Apr 5
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Out of Storage—Cypriot Art from the 1st Millennium BCE
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Apr 6
Public Program
Neighborhood Community Day
Main Building
1–5 p.m.
Apr 9
Menil Society
Menil Society Spring Cocktails
Menil Drawing Institute
6–8 p.m.
Apr 11
Public Program
Lecture: “Durable Fragility”: Ruth Asawa and the Materiality of Line
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Apr 14
Public Program
Curator Talk: Natalie Dupêcher on Janet Sobel
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Apr 18
Special Event
Studio Menil Presents: Alphabet Soup
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
7–11:30 p.m.
Apr 19
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Kelly Montana on “Wall Drawing Series: Marc Bauer”
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Apr 24
Public Program
Connecting Lines: Janet Sobel and Abstract Expressionism
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Apr 25
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview: “Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions”
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening: “Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions”
Main Building
7–8:30 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