Join Eric M. Wolf, head librarian at The Menil Collection, as he discusses his most recent book, American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design alongside Rice architecture professor Carlos ...

As sharks must move forward to survive, it has become conventional wisdom that the same is true for the contemporary museum; that it can't stand still but must always be expanding, an enlargement in ...

The Menil Drawing Institute, Houston (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) HOUSTON — After six years in the making and $40 million in investment, the Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) building ...

The Menil Collection celebrates its 25th anniversary this year poised to continue the vision founder Dominique de Menil described when she first announced its creation. A master plan is being ...

Since the start of the new century, Houston’s art scene has positively exploded with cutting-edge galleries, non-profit art spaces, and star-studded exhibitions. This is partly attributable to a ...

As The Menil Collection in Houston handles some updates and improvements to its main building's interior, the process has been as discreet as the presence of the museum itself within a neighborhood ...

On November 3, 2018, the Menil Drawing Institute will open in Houston on the campus shared with spaces including the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, and a site-specific Dan Flavin installation at ...

Houston gets one of its jewels back on Sept. 22, when the Menil Collection will reopen to the public. The world-renowned museum has been closed since late February for what director Rebecca Rabinow ...

Many exhibitions around the country will showcase artists’ responses to political and social movements, and to their own histories. By Morgan Malget In the artist’s first major U.S. museum survey, she ...

When banker John de Menil and heiress Dominique Schlumberger married in 1931, they could not have foreseen a move to Houston, Texas, from war-torn France. Yet the then-provincial, segregated city was ...

In the first-ever biography of the visionary 20th-century philanthropists Dominique and John de Menil, out last week from Knopf, author William Middleton details, over nearly 800 pages, how the couple ...