The Menil Collection main museum building located at 1533 Sul Ross Street, while a few satellite buildings are within a short walk on the 30-acre Menil Campus.
The satellite buildings include the Cy Twombly Gallery, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, the Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall, the new Drawing Institute, and the Rothko Chapel located in Menil Park.
Spanning the prehistoric era to the present day, the Menil’s collection of some 17,000 works includes arts of Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas and Pacific Northwest as well as arts of the ancient world and collections of surrealism, medieval and Byzantine art, and contemporary works.
Read our review of the Menil Collection here. Spoiler alert: We loved it!
Exhibitions & Dates
Fragments of Memory
Sep 20 2024 - Jan 26 2025
Explores the ways in which the past imbues the present
Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms
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25 drawings explore drawing as a meditative process
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly
Oct 11 2024 - Apr 20 2025
The behavior of the artist's mediums dictate the results of her work
Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight
Jan 24 2025 - Jul 13 2025
The first major museum exhibition in 30 years devoted to this pioneering abstract painter
What drawing can be: four responses
Mar 21 2025 - Aug 10 2025
Four artists explore the experimental potential of the medium