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Best Historic Art Show
Award Winner 2011

Hours: Sun,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat 11am-7pm

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Menil Collection

Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.
“Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective”

Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. from March 2 until June 10

Houston is the last stop on an American tour for the exhibit “Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective.” Organized by The Menil Collection, the show ...
The Artist's Eye: Beth Secor on Danny Lyon

June 3

2011 | Best Historic Art Show

Kurt Schwitters's early 20th-century collages were packed with the detritus of urban German life, and those collages were the focus of this stunning show, "Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage." Schwitters turned things like bus tickets, cigarette packs and chocolate wrappers into evocative gems that would influence artists for generations to come -- including Texans like Robert Rauschenberg. In addition to the collages and small sculptures, the Menil brought in a painstaking replica of... More »
2008 | Best Curator

Franklin Sirmans left New York for Houston, and NY's loss is Houston's gain. With his exhibition, "NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith," Sirmans, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Menil Collection, has brought the de Menils' legacy of spirituality in art into the 21st century. No staid, meditative Rothko Chapel experience, "NeoHooDoo" was diverse, funky and polytheistic. It also had a lot of women in it. (The late Mrs. de Menil, for all her progressive stances in politics, art... More »
2005 | Best Picnic Spot

Picnic Drive, in Memorial Park, is where the Man wants you to picnic. The Man will tempt you with postwar picnic benches and plenty of sweltering pavement, where you can fry eggs. But if your idea of a picnic leans more toward the version involving trees, grass, peace and quiet, try the small park surrounding the Menil Collection in Montrose. There's plenty of room to throw a Frisbee and lay out a spread of fried chicken, and instead of port-o-potties, the place is dotted with sculptures by... More »
2003 | Best Museum

It's still about the building. Renzo Piano's light-washed galleries are the standard by which to measure all other museums. But the building only sets the art in the best light. It's the curators who choose what goes into the beautiful galleries. And chief curator Matthew Drutt, in his first year, has shaken out some of the dust and cobwebs that had accumulated on the de Menils' remarkable collection. Now the works in the permanent collection get changed out on a regular basis -- no more... More »

Danny Lyon's Out of "This World"

By Kelly Klaasmeyer | Thu, May 17, 2012

Danny Lyon was the first photographer for the 1960s civil rights group the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He documented and joined the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club for his classic 1967 book The Bikeriders. He wrangled permission to ... More »
Houston Indie Book Festival Brings Together Independent Authors, Booksellers and Publishers

By Altamese Osborne | Mon, April 16, 2012

See our slideshow from the Menil Community Art Festival and Indie Book Fest. Writing about writers is as daunting a task as introducing a dignitary to a room full of dignitaries; do it right, or don'... More »
Free for All: Art Without a Price Tag: Asia Society Texas, the Menil Community Arts Festival and Much More

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, April 12, 2012

The Gods of Cheap Entertainment have smiled down on us this weekend. In fact, they may have smiled a little too much; there are so many things to do, it will take some scheduling to get to them all. S... More »
Menil Community Arts Festival

By Allison Wagoner | Thu, April 12, 2012

This weekend brings the Menil Community Arts Festival, when the museum teams up with neighboring community organizations for a heaping helping of culture — free. Not only will the Menil’s regular exhibits be on view, there will also be extra art o... More »
Paintstick and Perception

By Kelly Klaasmeyer | Thu, March 22, 2012

At 72, Richard Serra is a force to be reckoned with. You can still tell that this is a guy who started working in a steel mill at age 16 to earn money for school, and who later started a furniture-moving business, hauling heavy crap up the stairs ... More »
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houstonpressbestof | Houston, TX | 132 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Franklin Sirmans left New York for Houston, and NY's loss is Houston's gain. With his exhibition, "NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith," Sirmans, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Menil Collection, has brought the de Menils' legacy of spirituality in art into the 21st century. No staid, meditative Rothko Chapel experience, "NeoHooDoo" was diverse, funky and polytheistic. It also had a lot of women in it. (The late Mrs. de Menil, for all her progressive stances in politics, art and civil rights, was quite dismissive of her own sex and all but ignored work by women artists.) Sirmans is also reinvigorating the permanent collection. His "Everyday People," an exhibition of photographs drawn from The Menil Collection, was a nod to "The Family of Man" exhibition that originally inspired the de Menils to begin collecting photography. But whereas "The Family of Man" was humanistic in a simplistic, idealistic and hokey manner, Sirmans's selections of images presented a blunt, quirky, realistic and nonetheless moving view of the world.