The Menil welcomes Dr. Cathleen A. Baker, an accomplished paper conservator, author, and publisher, for a program on papermaking. Baker’s presentation considers the materials, processes, and technologies used in hand and machine papermaking. Through close …
Artist Roni Horn joins the Menil’s Senior Curator Michelle White for a live, online conversation about her work, Gold Field, on view in the Menil’s Modern and Contemporary galleries. On special loan from the artist, …
Join us for “Cy Twombly/Leonardo da Vinci: Bodies of Drawing,” an online lecture by Saskia Verlaan, Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow. In the winters of 1968 and 1971, Cy Twombly created a series of works …
Join the Menil for a live, online program with artist Alice Aycock, organized in conjunction with Dream Monuments: Drawings in the 1960s and 1970s, on view at the Menil Drawing Institute from May 21 to …
Sarah Kielt Costello, associate professor of Art History at the University of Houston–Clear Lake, joins the Menil’s Curatorial Associate, Danielle Smotherman Bennett, for an in-depth discussion about an ancient votive figure of a standing man …
Join the Menil for a live, online program with artist Ken Lum, organized in conjunction with "Dream Monuments: Drawings in the 1960s and 1970s." Lum will discuss the key themes of the exhibition—monuments, scale, and …
Houston-based artist Rick Lowe joins the Menil’s Senior Curator Michelle White for a conversation on the occasion of the museum’s recent acquisition of Lowe’s 2020 work, Untitled. The artwork belongs to an ongoing group of paintings …
In conjunction with the exhibition Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes, on view through November 14, 2021, join art historians Susan E. Bergh and Andrew Hamilton, and conservator Kari Dodson in an online conversation moderated …
The Menil Collection and Inprint co-present an online reading and conversation with author Maggie Nelson. Nelson will give a brief reading from her new book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press, 2021), …
In conjunction with the recent publication, Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing (Phaidon, 2021), please join the Menil for a program exploring key themes in contemporary drawing practice. Edouard Kopp, Chief Curator of the Menil …