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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
Jul 13
Public Program
Postponed: Workshop: Paper Folding with Joan Son (Containers & Geometrics)
Menil Drawing Institute
9:30–11 a.m.
Jul 20
Public Program
Moon Party
Main Building
8–10:30 p.m.
Jul 21
Public Program
Curator Talk: Sophie Asakura on On Kawara
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Jul 26
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Portraits of Women from the Collection with Michelle White
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Aug 4
Public Program
Curator Talk: Michelle White on Alice Neel
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Aug 6
Menil Society
Rescheduled: Menil Society Conservator’s Choice: Art’s Hidden Hazards
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Aug 9
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Abstraction after Modernism with Kelly Montana
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Framing Abstraction: Short Films by Women 1920–1970
Main Building
8–9 p.m.
Aug 13
Menil Contemporaries
Cocktails with a Curator: “Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions"
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Aug 16
Membership
Rescheduled: Member Noontime Talk: The Menil’s Print Collection with David Aylsworth
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Aug 22
Public Program
Book Reading and Conversation with Hari Kunzru
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Aug 23
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: On Kawara with Sophie Asakura
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Aug 31
Special Event
Voter Registration
Main Building
11 a.m.–7 p.m.
Sep 6
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Choose Your Own Adventure with Marketing and Communications
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Sep 14
Special Event
Voter Registration
Main Building
11 a.m.–7 p.m.
Sep 19
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview: “Fragments of Memory” and “Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms”
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening: “Fragments of Memory” and “Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms”
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8:30 p.m.
Sep 20
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: “Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo” with Kelly Montana
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Sep 27
Public Program
Film Screening: “Bell, Book and Candle”
Main Building Lawn
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Sep 29
Public Program
Curator Talk: Clare Elliott on A Neighborhood of Art
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Oct 3
Public Program
Phantoms from the Archives and Special Collections: Highlighting Surrealist Women
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Oct 4
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: “Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms” with Kirsten Marples
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Oct 5
Public Program
Inprint Writing Workout in Response to “Fragments of Memory”
Menil Drawing Institute
11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Oct 10
Menil Society
Menil Society Preview: “Tacita Dean: Blind Folly”
Main Building
6–7 p.m.
Membership
Member Opening: “Tacita Dean: Blind Folly”
Main Building
7–8:30 p.m.
Oct 13
Public Program
Sounds to Live By
Main Building
3–6 p.m.
Oct 17
Public Program
Artist Talk: Gustavo Díaz
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Oct 18
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Edward Gorey Collection with Donna Török-Oberholtzer
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Oct 24
Special Event
Party in the Park
Menil Park
This is a ticketed event
7–10 p.m.
Oct 26
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop Look Listen! Outdoor Jazz
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 1
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: “Tacita Dean: Blind Folly” with Michelle White
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Public Program
Lecture by George Baker: Drawing According to Tacita Dean
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Nov 9
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! In Response to “Tacita Dean: Blind Folly”
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Nov 10
Public Program
Curator Talk: Kirsten Marples on “Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms”
Menil Drawing Institute
3–3:30 p.m.
Nov 12
Menil Society
Menil Society Curator’s Choice: A Surrealist Wunderkammer
Main Building
6–7:30 p.m.
Nov 14
Public Program
Artist Talk: Wardell Milan
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Nov 15
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: The Conservation of Richmond Hall
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
12–1 p.m.
Nov 19
Menil Contemporaries
Menil Contemporaries On Display - Inside the Menil Drawing Institute
Menil Drawing Institute
6–7:30 p.m.
Nov 21
Public Program
ROCO “Into the Light”
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
7–8:30 p.m.
Dec 6
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Menil Publications
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Dec 7
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! In Response to “Fragments of Memory”
Menil Drawing Institute
3–4 p.m.
Dec 8
Public Program
Curator Talk: Michelle White on “Tacita Dean: Blind Folly”
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Dec 11
Public Program
DACAMERA “Time’s Echo”
Main Building
7:30–9 p.m.
Dec 20
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: “Fragments of Memory"with Kelly Montana
Menil Drawing Institute
12–1 p.m.
Jan 9, 2025
Public Program
Artist Talk: Ronny Quevedo
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8 p.m.
Jan 10, 2025
Membership
Member Noontime Talk: Object and Conservation Photography
Main Building
12–1 p.m.
Jan 11, 2025
Public Program
Drawing Workshop
Menil Drawing Institute
11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Jan 16, 2025
Public Program
Saving Cinema: A Conversation and Film Screening
Main Building
7–9 p.m.
Jan 23, 2025
Membership
Menil by Moonlight
Main Building
6–8 p.m.
Feb 1, 2025
Public Program
When The Art Speaks 2
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 6, 2025
Public Program
Lecture by Richard Hylton: ‘To Go Past Slavery’: Rupture and Rapture in Joe Overstreet’s ‘Senegal Paintings’
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Feb 9, 2025
Public Program
Artist Book Signing: “Why Cy” by Tacita Dean
Cy Twombly Gallery, 1501 Branard Street
11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Feb 10, 2025
Public Program
Tacita Dean in conversation with Thomas Adès, moderated by Sarah Rothenberg
Main Building
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Feb 15, 2025
Public Program
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! In Response to Surrealism
Main Building
3–4 p.m.
Feb 27, 2025
Public Program
Meredith Monk with Katie Geissinger and Allison Sniffin in Concert
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
7–8:30 p.m.
Feb 28, 2025
Public Program
Meredith Monk with Katie Geissinger and Allison Sniffin in Concert
Richmond Hall, 1500 Richmond Avenue
7–8:30 p.m.
Mar 13, 2025
Public Program
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro on Cy Twombly
Main Building
7–8 p.m.
Mar 20, 2025
Public Program
“What drawing can be: four responses” Exhibition Reception
Menil Drawing Institute
7–8:30 p.m.
Mar 21, 2025
Public Program
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Main Building
3–6 p.m.
Mar 22, 2025
Public Program
Sound Activation by Constantin Luser
Menil Drawing Institute
3–5 p.m.
Mar 23, 2025
Public Program
Curator Talk: Natalie Dupêcher on “Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight”
Main Building
3–3:30 p.m.
Mar 27, 2025
Public Program
Charles “Mark” Haxthausen: Cy Twombly: Senses of Time
Main Building
7–8 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