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
Ruth Asawa Through Line
Mar 22 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Explores Asawa's lifelong daily drawing practice
Longing, Grief, and Spirituality: Art Since 1980
Jun 15 2023 - Fall 2024
Highlights a myriad of artistic approaches of the past decades.
Janet Sobel: All-Over
Feb 23 2024 - Aug 11 2024
Abstract paintings made by Sobel during the 1940s
Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions
Apr 26 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Showcases the breadth of approaches to abstraction since the mid-20th- century
Foyer Installation: Roberto Matta
Aug 30 2023 - May 5 2024
Hallucinatory landscapes and cosmic spaces by the Chilean Surrealist
Wall Drawing Series: Marc Bauer
Sep 22 2023 - Summer 2024
The fifth installment of the commissioned ephemeral wall drawing series
Foyer Installation: On Kawara
May 8 2024 - Sep 15 2024
A trio of “Date Paintings” by a Japanese-born Conceptual artist
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
Portraits of Women from the Collection
Mar 16 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Portraits of women