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.
Celebrates the enduring artistic traditions from Cameroon and its global diaspora
Approximately sixty artists and more than 130 artworks
An epic series of sixty-three drawings witness the horrors of WWII
His early Surrealist compositions to his later inventive botanical and geological renderings
Innovative art made while Chryssa was living in New York City (late 1950s - early 1970s)
100+ portraits of friends and colleagues resemble Byzantine icons
Explores Asawa's lifelong daily drawing practice