The Menil Collection will open "Janet Sobel: All-Over" on February 23, 2024, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern […]
Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings, collages, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints, paperfolds, & more, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice.
In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. The two painters experimented with daring directions in energetic bursts of color, form, and structure that eventually led to a boldly inventive artistic language known as Fauvism (from the French fauve, or […]
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is the first major museum exhibition devoted to exploring the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States through collage. Works by multiple generations of living artists examine concepts such as cultural hybridity, gender fluidity, historical memory, and notions of beauty and power. By assembling […]
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence showcases Kehinde Wiley’s new, monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work, with detailed portrayals of Black and Brown individuals, the artist confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice. In this body of work, Wiley uses the visual […]
An educational cart will be taken out on weekends, Thursday afternoons, during field trips, and on other days when there is high foot traffic at the Museum. Visitors will spend 5-7 minutes at the cart and learn about organ donation and transplantation. The kidney cart is sponsored by The Living Bank.
Early African American settlers in Houston’s Third Ward area established small worship places, reminiscent of the praise houses attended during slavery in the Jim Crow era. The intimate and personal size of the congregations created bonds in the community that would last for more than 90 years. Images of the still-standing small houses of worship, […]
Abby Gray is the author of Clayton Sparks Leaves His Mark and an advocate for organ donation. Abby’s husband, Reid Gray, received a directed donation liver transplant in January of 2019 from Clayton Sparks. After developing an amazing relationship with Clayton’s parents and learning what a kind and giving person he was, Abby was inspired […]
Abby Gray is the author of Clayton Sparks Leaves His Mark and an advocate for organ donation. Abby’s husband, Reid Gray, received a directed donation liver transplant in January of 2019 from Clayton Sparks. After developing an amazing relationship with Clayton’s parents and learning what a kind and giving person he was, Abby was inspired […]
Abby Gray is the author of Clayton Sparks Leaves His Mark and an advocate for organ donation. Abby’s husband, Reid Gray, received a directed donation liver transplant in January of 2019 from Clayton Sparks. After developing an amazing relationship with Clayton’s parents and learning what a kind and giving person he was, Abby was inspired […]
UTMB’s Sealy Center for Environmental Health & Medicine and Institute for Translational Sciences invite you to participate in a conversation on Planet vs Plastics. Of special significance, this year’s theme for Earth Day is Planet vs. Plastics to advocate for widespread awareness of the health risks of plastics and rapidly phase out all single-use plastics. […]
A Friendly Game of Basketball in John M. O’Quinn Gallery is a solo exhibition by 2023/2024 Artist Studio Program participant Tay Butler. This multi-media exhibition presents Butler’s research of and art engagement with basketball’s racial history and contemporary anti-Black issues. Through various media—including installation, painting, drawing, photography, collage, music, and performance—Butler creates a multi-sensory environment […]
