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.
INSTRUCTOR: Marlena “Zen Ase” Johns TIME: Four Sundays, April 7, 14, 21, 28, 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m CDT PRICE: Early bird price: $150 for members, $180 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Monday, April 1. After Monday, April 1. $180 for members, $210 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for […]
We’re thrilled to introduce the latest addition to our team, Ms. Anastasia Ferrer, an accomplished children’s arts and crafts instructor, with a degree from the Saint-Petersburg Institute for Educators. At our Art School, your children’s creative journey will extend far beyond just painting and drawing. They’ll dive into the tactile world of clay, embrace the […]
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.
"The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection" celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans from 1595 to present day. Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African American history and culture outside the Smithsonian Institution, the exhibition of the same name features the shared treasures amassed by Shirley and Bernard Kinsey during […]
Sherlock Holmes & The Mystery of the Crown Jewel Based on the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Book, Music & Lyrics by Janet Yates Vogt & Mark Friedman The game’s afoot as the famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend, Doctor Watson, are given a case by Queen Victoria herself to solve a […]
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 […]
Looking for a community of creative souls to connect with? Join us! Each month, we explore books by creative thinkers with the goals of: 1) diving deep into the creative process, and 2) exploring how dance relates to our world It’s important to register in case we need to update readers before the meeting. All […]
There will be hell to pay640 girls in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, 1,003 in Spain. As the servant Leporello famously sings in his “Catalogue aria,” the eponymous fiend in Mozart’s sublime tragicomedy Don Giovanni has already been very busy when he beds the engaged Anna and then kills her father in […]
