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The Menil Collection A museum and a neighborhood of art. As always, admission is free. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11am to 7pm, and charges no admission fee.
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Housed in the first United States building designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, the Menil’s main museum building anchors a 30-acre campus. The Menil presents regular rotations of artworks from the growing permanent collection, organizes special exhibitions and programs, publishes scholarly books, and conducts research into the conservation of modern and contemporary art.

10/16/2026

Visit the Menil Collection soon and explore a new rotation of Modern and Contemporary art. Find works by Mel Chin, Theaster Gates, and William Eggleston among others in the museum's main building.

As always, admission is free.

See "Fragility" at the Menil Drawing Institute with a paper sample book in-hand.The exhibition explores paper's delicate...
10/15/2026

See "Fragility" at the Menil Drawing Institute with a paper sample book in-hand.

The exhibition explores paper's delicate yet resilient characteristics through works made of cardboard, paper napkins, and baking parchment paper, among other papers of varying sturdiness and textures. Inside the sample book, find a variety of papers represented throughout the show.

The sample book is available at the Drawing Institute front desk, for in-gallery use.

10/13/2026

'Spend time with "Wall Drawing / Redux: A119," the new site-specific work by Jitish Kallat on view at the Menil Drawing Institute.

The layered, time-based work grows out of the artist's sustained engagement with Project A119, a partly declassified 1958 plan by the United States Air Force to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon. Printed directly on the Drawing Institute's wall are all 190 declassified pages of the document "A Study of Lunar Research Flights – Volume 1." A sheath of laminated glass features enlarged images of Kallat's watercolor graphics evoking an unrealized episode of ambition, secrecy, and violence during the Cold War. The final layer is a special film whose transparency can be regulated electrically and whose surface was marked by Kallat to resemble cracks and holes in the glass.

The Menil Collection's art buildings are open Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Admission is always free.

Explore the Menil Collection's 30-acre campus this weekend.Green spaces are open daily from dawn to dusk. The Menil's ar...
10/09/2026

Explore the Menil Collection's 30-acre campus this weekend.

Green spaces are open daily from dawn to dusk. The Menil's art buildings are open Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

The new exhibition "Terry Winters: Vitalized Geometry" features some of the artist's first prints—lithographs created at...
10/08/2026

The new exhibition "Terry Winters: Vitalized Geometry" features some of the artist's first prints—lithographs created at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE).

Founded out of a deep commitment to artistic contribution, ULAE is one of the most respected print studios in the United States and has introduced many artists to the process of lithography. Sophie Asakura, curator of "Terry Winters: Vitalized Geometry," spoke with Alyssa Ebinger, the Master Lithographer at ULAE, about the traditional lithographic process and what it is like to work with artists on press.

10/06/2026

It's the final week to see "John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog" at the Menil Collection.

The six-channel video installation reflects on youth-led activism during the early years of the Civil Rights movement in the American South. In combination with cinematic shots recorded on a stage set, the 51-minute work features documentation of pivotal historical moments, including the 1961 Freedom Rides, the Little Rock Nine being protected by federal troops, and the March on Washington, among others.

Explore the work, on view in the Menil's main building through Sunday, October 11.

10/02/2026

Explore new art on view across the Menil Collection's campus. Admission is always free.

Join us at the Menil Collection and enjoy upcoming programs in October.📜 Papermaking Workshop with Yvette Grutter, Sat.,...
10/01/2026

Join us at the Menil Collection and enjoy upcoming programs in October.

📜 Papermaking Workshop with Yvette Grutter, Sat., Oct. 3, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., 1:30–3:30 p.m. These programs are at capacity. There will be a stand-by line onsite.
💬 Cultural Sites & Museum Collections: A Conversation with the World Monuments Fund, Thurs., Oct. 8, 7–8 p.m.
🎤 Member Noontime Talk: "John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog" with Michelle White, Fri., Oct. 9, 12–12:30 p.m.
🎵 DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen!, Sat., Oct. 10, 3–4 p.m.
🎵 Sounds to Live By, Sun., Oct. 18, 3–7 p.m.
🎤 Member Noontime Talk: "Wall Drawing Series: Jitish Kallat" with Edouard Kopp, Fri., Oct. 30, 12–12:30 p.m.

The Menil's public programs are always free and open to all.

09/29/2026

In the main building, find "Flight of Birds," 1957–1960. Chryssa created this work by arranging pegs in a scattered formation.

The artist, best known for her pioneering use of light, explored what she considered a fundamental problem of sculpture: "how to be static yet have motion." Similar to other works in her Projections series, the pegs in "Flight of Birds" act as sundials, showing the movement of natural light across the work's monochrome surface.

See this sculpture among other abstract works in the Menil Collection's main building foyer.

09/25/2026

Now open is "Terry Winters: Vitalized Geometry."

Visit this weekend and explore the exhibition of 44 works on paper in the Menil Collection's main building. As always, admission is free.

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1533 Sul Ross Street
Houston, TX
77006

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 11am - 7pm
Saturday 11am - 7pm
Sunday 11am - 7pm

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