"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 […]
Developed over 4 years and across multiple locations in Texas and New York, At the Still Point comprises over 70 sculptural works employing various weave structures. Evolving from an exploration of the canvas – a woven textile - into a study of composition with space, the work contemplates what exists between. At the Still Point will […]
Wardell Milan delivers an Artist Talk on the occasion of the Menil’s display of "Pulse", in the exhibition "Fragments of Memory" at the Menil Drawing Institute. Milan is known for his drawings and collages of paradisiacal landscapes inhabited by composite, fragmented figures.
About Join us for the Public Opening of Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… the artist’s first major museum survey and spans over two decades of artwork. This unique lineup and show will include a mix of Gaitan’s original “Tejas Roots” music along with a curated set of covers paying tribute to legends and cultivators from […]
Discovery Green, downtown Houston’s 12-acre urban oasis and epicenter for interactive public art, is proud to announce the debut of its signature winter art installation, ATLAS by internationally recognized artist, Jen Lewin. Debuting on Friday, November 15, ATLAS is a collection of 24 handcrafted and hand-painted ethereal glowing moths suspended from trees along the Brown […]
Attention, artists and manga fanatics! At our popular manga camp, create your own comics inspired by the Japanese manga style. Beginner to advanced students will learn new skills to bring comics to life on paper and on the web. Learn how comics are made, compete in sketching contests, and show off your work on the […]
