The Menil Collection

07/11/2025

It's the last weekend to see "Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight" at the Menil Collection.

Renowned for his innovative approach to non-representational painting, American artist Joe Overstreet consistently sought to intertwine abstraction and social politics. The artist made a significant contribution to postwar art, positioning abstraction as an expansive tool for exploring the idea of freedom and the Black experience in the United States.

Plan to visit through July 13. Admission is always free.

07/09/2025

Houston artist Jim Love made a series of sculpture in varying sizes in the shape of a toy jack. The largest, ten-foot version greets visitors to the Menil as they approach the museum from the main parking lot.

Free postcards featuring this sculpture are available at the museum's visitor desks. 💌

07/03/2025

It's final weeks to see "Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight" at the Menil Collection. Visit the show through July 13.

Admission is always free.

07/01/2025

Join us at the Menil Collection and enjoy our upcoming programs in July.

👋 Exhibition Send-Off for "Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight", Wednesday, July 9, 3–5 p.m.
🎨 Member Noontime Talk: Adoration of the Magi Tapestry with Clare Elliott, Friday, July 11, 12–12:30 p.m.
🎥 Film Screening: Cy Dear: A Journey Through the Life and Works of Cy Twombly, Thursday, July 17, 8:30–10 p.m.
🎨 Member Noontime Talk: Menil Archives with Lisa Barkley and Krista Hollis, Friday, July 25, 12–12:30 p.m.
🎤 Lecture: “The Force of These Images”: René Magritte, the de Menils, and the United States, Thursday, July 31, 7–8 p.m.

Visit menil.org/events for more details. The Menil’s public programs are always free and open to all.

To attend our special member events, join today at menil.org/membership.

06/27/2025

In the Menil's recent acquisition, "Play Yer Part" by Christina Quarles, the artist explores identity. Through her complex landscapes, she asks how categories of belonging, like race and gender, fail to capture the nuances of human experience. As the artist has said, “I create images that remind us that reality is constructed.”

See this artwork in the museum's main building galleries. Admission is always free.

06/25/2025

Now on view in the main building galleries, see Francis Bacon's "Study from the Human Body," 1983.

Learn more about the installation: https://bit.ly/4egUMuB

06/20/2025

How are you spending the longest day of the year? ☀️ This summer solstice, plan to visit Rene Magritte's "Evening Falls" displayed in the Menil's main building foyer.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4kXMji9

Admission is always free.

06/11/2025

Spend time in the main building's foyer and enjoy an installation of paintings by Belgian artist René Magritte.

Now regarded as icons of the Surrealist movement, the artworks on display were purchased within a couple years of their making by the museum’s founders, John and Dominique de Menil.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4kXMji9

06/09/2025

"You do not want to compete with art, and you still want to give character to a museum; you have to work on the immateriality of the museum—light, vibration, proportion." —Renzo Piano

Natural light was important to Dominique de Menil's vision for the museum. To illuminate the galleries while shielding the artwork on display from the Texas sun, architect Renzo Piano designed the building's signature roof "leaves."

06/06/2025

The works on view in the Cy Twombly Gallery, dating from 1953 to 2004, include several large canvases, sculptural works, and suites of paintings and drawings.

Plan your visit at menil.org. Admission is always free.

06/04/2025

Read about the Menil's newest show, "The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House," in ELLE DECOR.

"The exhibition is an exercise, for artist, curator, and visitor, in unlearning the norms of arrangement and reconnecting with the emotive power of visual art and the way in which it is displayed."

A new exhibition of Francesca Fuch's work at the Menil Collection tells us.

06/04/2025

On this day 38 years ago, the Menil Collection opened to the public. 🎈

To mark the opening, artists Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, who the museum's founders championed, sent this celebratory collage to Dominique de Menil.

Plan to explore the galleries this week. Admission is always free.