"Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms" examines drawing as a meditative process that invites the gradual appearance of indeterminate images. Selected from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, this display of twenty-nine drawings dating from the late 1930s to the present share a visual language of emerging forms. On view September 20, 2024 through January 26, […]
"Fragments of Memory", a selection of works from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, explores the ways in which the past imbues present experiences. In their drawings, the featured artists take up commonplace embodiments of personal and collective memory, such as scrapbooks, snapshots, notes, relics, and odes, to reimagine how we might access fraught memories and […]
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo features a site-specific work by New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981). The 36-foot triptych, C A R A A C A R A, 2024, explores the relationship between origin, transfer, and translation, with each panel of the composition indicating a different step in the artist’s process.
"Tacita Dean: Blind Folly" is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by British European visual artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965). The exhibition, organized in close collaboration with Dean, spotlights her career-defining approach to creating art through unmediated and chance-based drawing processes across a variety of mediums, from film to printmaking.
Join Carolina Borja for a brief walkthrough of American Lattice, and continue exploring FotoFest's "Artist-run, artist-organized", meet more participating artists, and enjoy Family Day programming from 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm. American Lattice, explores the human process of adapting to a new city. Migration has been a defining aspect of human history, and this piece highlights […]
Project Row Houses (PRH) proudly presents the second iteration of our Southern Survey Biennial in the historic row houses on Holman Street in Third Ward. This survey of recent works created by contemporary visual artists living and working in “The South” will feature installations in PRH’s historic row houses from Rabeeha Adnan (Richmond, VA), Nic […]
Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? is a participatory installation by artist collaborators Alex Strada and Tali Keren. It critically examines the U.S. Constitution and creates space for intervention and political imagination. The artists ask visitors to engage critically with the U.S. Constitution and pose two questions: What […]
🎉 Get Ready for an Epic Family Adventure! 🎉 Calling all kids (and kids at heart)! Join us for an unforgettable day packed with non-stop fun, laughter, and discovery! Our festival is bursting with live music that’ll get your feet moving, dazzling African-American and Latin cultural dances, stunning street chalk art, a hands-on reptile petting […]
River on Fire is a multidisciplinary exhibition showcasing the work of 14 artists who respond to environmental crises and climate change. Curated by Ashley DeHoyos Sauder, the exhibition draws inspiration from a long history of environmental activism related to river fires across the nation— events that have significantly shaped understandings of ecological preservation and environmental […]
Join FotoFest on Saturday, November 9, from 1 to 3 PM for Family Day, a fun, educational, and hands-on program! In conjunction with its exhibition, Artist-run, Artist-organized, Family Day presents three unique activities for adults and kids: painting with spices, photography walks, and Spot the AI minigame. Self-portrait with Spices Inspired by La Mecha Contemporary […]
Join HCCC Curator + Exhibitions Director Sarah Darro and a few of the featured artists from "Designing Motherhood" for an intimate tour of this groundbreaking exhibition.
DACAMERA and The Menil Collection present Stop, Look and Listen! DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the exhibition Tacita Dean: Blind Folly. Charles Ives: Child of Tree Thomas Adès: Three Berceuses from The Exterminating Angel Errollyn Wallen: Five Postcards Kevin Lau: If Life Were a Mirror… DACAMERA Young Artists: Rebecca Benjamin, viola; Isaac […]
