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Welcome to The Menil Collection

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Set within a residential neighborhood, the Menil Collection invites visitors to explore its art buildings and green spaces. Admission is always free.
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On View

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John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog

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The Gift of Drawing: Cy Twombly

Menil Drawing Institute
Henri Cartier Bresson, Alicante, 1933, printed 1973. Gelatin silver print, 9 58 × 14 316 in. (24.4 × 36 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston. © Henri Cartier BressonMagnum Photos. Photo Paul Hester

Photography from The Menil Collection: Curated by Wendy Watriss

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1 Installation view of Drawing by Gladys Nilsson at the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston. Photo Sarah Hobson

Wall Drawing Series: Gladys Nilsson

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Events

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Member Noontime Talk: Slow Looking with Joseph Newland

Friday, July 10 12–12:30 p.m.
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Women in Abstraction, Chryssa and Dorothy Hood

Thursday, July 16 7–8 p.m.
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Curator Talk: Michelle White on John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog

Sunday, July 19 3–3:30 p.m.
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Lecture: Samson Young

Thursday, July 23 7–8 p.m.
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Member Noontime Talk: Modern and Contemporary Galleries with Sophie Asakura

Friday, July 24 12–12:30 p.m.
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Curator Talk: Edouard Kopp on The Gift of Drawing: Cy Twombly

Sunday, July 26 3–3:30 p.m.
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Film Screening & Panel Discussion: SNCC, Sit-Ins, and The Strange Demise of Jim Crow

Thursday, July 30 7–8:30 p.m.
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Panel Discussion: Holding Freedom: Ghana in the Menil Collection

Thursday, August 6 7–8 p.m.
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Member Noontime Talk: The Photo-poetics of Collection Object Photography with Caroline Philippone and Philip Karjeker

Friday, August 7 12–12:30 p.m.
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Menil Contemporaries: On Display

Tuesday, August 11 6–7:30 p.m.
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Lecture: Stokely in Houston—Black Power, Pan-Africanism, and the Diasporic Imagination

Thursday, August 13 7–8 p.m.
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Freedom Ride: Houston Civil Rights Bus Tour

Friday, August 14 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
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Freedom Ride: Houston Civil Rights Bus Tour

Saturday, August 15 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
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Member Noontime Talk: X-rays Don’t Lie: Uncovering the Secrets of Art with Cory Rogge and James Craven

Friday, September 4 12–12:30 p.m.
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Jitish Kallat at the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston. Photo by Sarah Hobson (1)

Artist Talk: Jitish Kallat

Thursday, September 10 7–8 p.m.
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Minnijean Brown Trickey: Activism is a Way of Life

Thursday, September 17 7–8 p.m.
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Member Noontime Talk: Southern Outsider Artists with Natalie Dupêcher

Friday, September 25 12–12:30 p.m.
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Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on “Fragility”

Sunday, September 27 3–3:30 p.m.
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Cultural Sites & Museum Collections: A Conversation with World Monuments Fund

Thursday, October 8 7–8 p.m.
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DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen!

Saturday, October 10 3–4 p.m.
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