"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.
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 […]
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 Thursday, October 17, from 2 to 3:30 PM for an educational boat ride down Houston's Buffalo Bayou with Throughline Collective in collaboration with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. The tour illuminates Houston's unique ecology and stewardship potential. Artists from Throughline Collective's Troubling the Boundaries exhibition—Margaux Crump, Jake Eshelman, and Molly Koehn—will discuss how […]
Join us for a conversation between writer and critic Chris Kraus and artist Olivia Erlanger on the occasion of the catalogue launch for Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow. Kraus has written extensively about contemporary visual art. Her work has been widely translated, and her first novel, I Love Dick, was adapted for television. Kraus […]
reVision’s CommUnity Night is a weekly get together for a hot meal, music, dancing, and celebration. While primarily focused on school-aged children and youth, and young adults, reVision's CommUnity Night is open to the public. The musical focus is on hiphop, a live DJ plays music, and children and youth can learn the fundamentals of […]
Artist Gustavo Díaz joins Kirsten Marples, Curatorial Associate, Menil Drawing Institute, and Jan Burandt, Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, Menil Drawing Institute, for a conversation about his drawing practice and approach to materials.
In honor of Czech Heritage Month, Apollo Chamber Players celebrate the bicentennial of Bedrich Smetana’s birth with chamber music by this beloved Bohemian composer. Program features his fiery First String Quartet and masterful Piano Trio.
