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Join us at the Menil Collection and enjoy upcoming programs in November.
🎤 A Reading: Ann Hamilton, Thurs., Nov. 5, 7–8 p.m.
🖌️ The Artist's Eye: Li(sa E.) Harris, Sun., Nov. 8, 3–3:30 p.m.
🎵 Performance: Vitalized Vitalized, Thurs., Nov. 12, 7–8 p.m.
🖼️ Member Noontime Talk: "Terry Winters: Vitalized Geometry" with Sophie Asakura, Fri., Nov. 13, 12–12:30 p.m.
🎵 DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen!, Sat., Nov. 14, 3–4 p.m.
🎤 Lecture: The Python Spirit in West African Religion, Thurs., Nov. 19, 7–8 p.m.
🎨 Artist Talk: Jim Hodges, Thurs., Dec. 3, 7–8 p.m.
Visit the link in bio for more details. The Menil's public programs are always free and open to all.
To attend special member events, join at menil.org/membership.
02 Nov 2026
Now on view in the Menil Collection's main building foyer are works by Robert Rauschenberg, George Smith, and Clyfford Still.
The museum is open Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
🎨 (1) Clyfford Still, "PH-222," 1955–1956. Oil on canvas, 115 1/4 × 106 in. (292.7 × 269.2 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Francois de Menil. © City & County of Denver, Courtesy Clyfford Still Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Chris Dunn (2) Robert Rauschenberg, "Holiday Ruse (Night Shade)," 1991. Acrylic paint on tarnished aluminum, 85 × 241 in. (215.9 × 612.1 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Museum, © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Photo: Chris Dunn (3) George Smith, "Spiral to the New World," 1990. Steel and paint, 25 × 23 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (63.5 × 59.7 × 11.4 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston. © George Smith. All rights reserved. Courtesy of Nicole Longnecker Fine Art. Photo: Chris Dunn
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10 Nov 2026
To create her collaborative work "poche," 2014, Ann Hamilton stitched soft wool between handmade sheets of paper, forming a pocket for both storage and protection. See the work on display in "Fragility" at the Menil Drawing Institute.
Join Hamilton tonight at 7 p.m. as she shares insights into her multidisciplinary practice. The program, created especially for the Menil Collection's Artist Talk Series, combines reading, audience participation, video, and paper to present an immersive experience that extends Hamilton's work through time and space.
🎨 Ann Hamilton in collaboration with Dieu Donné, "poche," 2014. Abaca paper, raw sheep wool, linen thread, 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Dieu Donné. © Ann Hamilton. Photo: Caroline Philippone
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05 Nov 2026
Take a moment with Niki de Saint Phalle's sculpture "Reims," 1962. Named after the Gothic cathedral in Reims, France, the work is made of plaster, chicken wire, and found objects including religious sculpture, plastic toys, and a skull with horns.
This work is among the artist's "shooting paintings," also widely known by the French word "tir," meaning "shooting." To make this work, the artist shot at the composition created with found objects and containers of paint that burst upon the bullet's impact. The artist explained that, through this violent process, she wanted to make her paintings bleed. It was only through acts of destruction, she insisted, that there was life.
See this work on display in the Menil's galleries of Modern and Contemporary art.
🎨 Niki de Saint Phalle, "Reims," 1962. Paint, plaster, wire, chicken wire, cloth, and found objects on plywood, 74 1/2 × 48 × 11 7/8 in. (189.2 × 121.9 × 30.2 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston. © Niki Charitable Art Foundation. All rights reserved / ARS, NY / ADAGP, Paris. Photos: Chris Dunn
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29 Oct 2026
In Houston's subtropical climate, the Menil Collection's grounds stay green nearly year-round. The landscape around the museum is a living extension of the neighborhood, meant to complement the art and architecture.
Explore the Menil's 30-acre campus. Green spaces are open daily, dawn to dusk.
📸 Photos: Lauren Marek, Chris Dunn
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28 Oct 2026
Inspired by the Surrealist “exquisite corpse” game, Edward Gorey’s 1981 book “Mélange Funeste” features a series of standing figures—human, avian, insect, and other—whose three sections can be recombined to form strange new beings. With 16 “complete” characters, the viewer can create up to 560 unique combinations of figures.
A copy of “Mélange Funeste” is among the Menil Library’s special collection holdings.
📖 Edward Gorey, “Mélange Funeste” (Gotham Book Mart, 1981). The Menil Library Special Collections, Bequest of William Lassiter. Video: Chris Dunn
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27 Oct 2026
Take an art break and see what’s on view at the Menil Collection. Admission is always free.
Make sure to visit:
🎨 Main building
✏️ Menil Drawing Institute
🖼️ Cy Twombly Gallery
🌈 Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall
🌳 Green spaces
📚 Menil Bookstore
22 Oct 2026
Today is the first day of early voting in Texas. Polls are open through October 30, ahead of Election Day on November 3.
Among the Menil Collection's photography holdings is one of Bruce Davidson's most iconic photographs. Taken in 1965 during the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights, the image shows a young man with a painted face; the word “VOTE” is inscribed across his forehead, a large American flag is unfurled behind him, and he looks directly into the camera.
🎨 Bruce Davidson, "Selma March, Alabama," 1965. Gelatin silver print, 12 5/8 × 18 3/4 in. (32 × 47.6 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
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19 Oct 2026
Visit the Menil Collection soon and explore a new rotation of Modern and Contemporary art. Find works by Mel Chin, Theaster Gates, and William Eggleston among others in the museum’s main building.
As always, admission is free.
🎥 Chris Dunn
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16 Oct 2026
See "Fragility" at the Menil Drawing Institute with a paper sample book in-hand.
The exhibition explores paper's delicate yet resilient characteristics through works made of cardboard, paper napkins, and baking parchment paper, among other papers of varying sturdiness and textures. Inside the sample book, find a variety of papers represented throughout the show.
The sample book is available at the Drawing Institute front desk, for in-gallery use.
📸 Photos: Chris Dunn
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15 Oct 2026
Spend time with “Wall Drawing / Redux: A119,” the new site-specific work by Jitish Kallat on view at the Menil Drawing Institute.
The layered, time-based work grows out of the artist’s sustained engagement with Project A119, a partly declassified 1958 plan by the United States Air Force to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon. Printed directly on the Drawing Institute’s wall are all 190 declassified pages of the document “A Study of Lunar Research Flights – Volume 1.” A sheath of laminated glass features enlarged images of Kallat’s watercolor graphics evoking an unrealized episode of ambition, secrecy, and violence during the Cold War. The final layer is a special film whose transparency can be regulated electrically and whose surface was marked by Kallat to resemble cracks and holes in the glass.
The Menil Collection’s art buildings are open Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Admission is always free.
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13 Oct 2026
Explore the Menil Collection's 30-acre campus this weekend.
Green spaces are open daily from dawn to dusk. The Menil's art buildings are open Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
📸 Photos: Lauren Marek
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09 Oct 2026
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