Day Trips: Menil Collection, Houston
This summer, one of the Bayou City’s most interesting collections of art celebrates its 30th anniversary
"...The Menil Collection is an oasis, even among Houston's world-class art..."
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July 14, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre’s Lumen
The site-specific dance inspired by Dan Flavin’s art evoked pure wonder and worked as a study of threes
"...for the Dan Flavin fluorescent light installation at the Menil Collection in Houston. When the Menil project was postponed,..."
April 29, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz
Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup
Happy holidays to everyone and happy daytrippin’ to all!
"...make line drawings, through Jan. 8, 2017, at the Menil Collection in Houston (www.menil.org). At the Arlington Museum of..."
Dec. 2, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
Articulations
Austinite Has Rauschenbergs Seized
"...the Harris County Constable's Office go to Houston's prestigious Menil Collection and remove 15 works of art from a..."
Feb. 20, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Force of Circumstance
Houston honky-tonks + Americana surrealism = Robert Ellis
"...In the back gallery room of the Menil Collection in Houston, Robert Ellis stares at René Magritte's..."
June 3, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman
The Art of the Business of Art
Gallery owners David Berman, Wally Workman, and Steve Clark talk about their lives promoting artists and selling art
"...to be Houston. We're not going to have a Menil Collection or a de Menil family or the Nashers..."
July 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin
Ten Years After
Curator Annette Carlozzi Returns to Austin's Arts Scene
"...The exhibition was a really fine collection of works drawn together in a novel way. The..."
Sept. 27, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen
Setting the Table
New director Ned Rifkin wants to bring more people to the feast that is the Blanton
"...Texas in Arlington in the Seventies and directed the Menil Collection in Houston from 1999 to 2001) and to..."
Oct. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The Queer Curator
Getting to know the Blanton's talented curator, Evan Garza
"...[in Houston]. Free museums like the CAMH and the Menil Collection are why I wanted to become a curator,”..."
April 11, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Dan Gray
Arts Awards
Area visual artists win support for 2012 projects
"...art at SMU), and Michelle White (curator for the Menil Collection) combed through 170 applications before settling on this..."
Dec. 16, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
line upon line percussion
Austin ensemble brings epic percussion work 'Erewhon' to North America
"...line travels to Houston for a performance at the Menil Collection's Community Arts Festival on Saturday, April 20. For..."
April 12, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
New Art in Austin: 15 to Watch
See this survey of Austin's emerging savants, and you'll do yourself a big, big favor
"...University of Texas at El Paso's Kate Bonansinga, the Menil Collection's Toby Kamps, and AMOA's own Andrea Mellard, a..."
March 11, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
'New Art in Austin' 2011
AMOA has announced the 15 artists chosen for its triennial show of local art
"...Arts, University of Texas at El Paso), Toby Kamps (Menil Collection, Houston), and AMOA assistant curator Andrea Mellard –..."
Oct. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Blanton Museum of Art
Ned Rifkin, former Smithsonian undersecretary of art, is the new director of the Blanton
"...visual arts for the 40 Acres and the UT collections. Or maybe he was simply eager to get back..."
May 22, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Arthouse Texas Prize: Five for Texas (the prize, that is)
Arthouse shows off work by finalists for the 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize
"...Sirmans, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection in Houston. New Arthouse curator Elizabeth Dunbar put..."
Sept. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Arthouse Texas & Hunting Art Prizes: Art as big as Texas
The Lone Star State's two biggest honors for visual artists are one step closer to awarding their respective five-figure prizes this year
"...York; Franklin Sirmans, modern- and contemporary-art curator for the Menil Collection in Houston; and Arthouse Executive Director Sue Graze..."
March 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Articulations
A spin on the Austin art gallery carousel.
"...Rauschenberg while they were on display at Houston's prestigious Menil Collection. The matter has since been resolved, and now..."
Oct. 1, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Day Trips
The Nasher Sculpture Garden and the Crow Collection of Asian Art are just two excellent reasons to make a short trip to Dallas to enjoy some world-renowned art
"...up the boldness of the world's most important private collection of modern art. The artwork's stainless-steel pole at a..."
Feb. 3, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December
When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?
"...ambitions. In 1979, the Dia Foundation, backed by the Menil family of Houston's immense oil fortune, purchased an abandoned..."
Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane
Inside and Outside the Curatorial Box
Husband and wife curators Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and Regine Basha discuss the art of their profession.
"...Fort Worth Modern, the Kimbell, the MFA-Houston, and the Menil. That, I think, is an incredible credit to the..."
Nov. 14, 2003 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine
Eve About All
The Stunning Images of Photographer Eve Arnold
"...the touring exhibit, which has also appeared at the Menil Gallery in Houston and the International Center for Photography..."
