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 ...

Ten years after it was founded, the Menil Drawing Institute will finally open the doors to its own freestanding building on Saturday, November 3. Designed by Los Angeles-based architecture firm ...

The new Menil Drawing Institute looks like a stealth jet of a building from Richmond Avenue, so sleek and low-slung that passersby might not notice it across the expanse of grass where the Richmont ...

Drawings, while rich for the viewer, are a challenge to preserve and display. Light and humidity in even small amounts can quickly degrade the quality of a drawing. Houston has both in spades. As a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drawings, while rich for the viewer, are a challenge to preserve and display. Light and humidity in even small amounts can quickly degrade the quality of a drawing. Houston has both in spades. As a ...