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Explore the Menil Collection's galleries, installations, and exhibitions with us. Plan your next visit at menil.org/visit. 🖼️ | The Menil Collection
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Explore the Menil Collection's galleries, installations, and exhibitions with us. Plan your next visit at menil.org/visit. 🖼️ | The Menil Collection
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Guided by their belief that photography’s accessibility offered a deeply humanist perspective on contemporary life, John and Dominique de Menil acquired a small yet powerful group of documentary images. See these moments in “Photography from the Menil Collection: Curated by Wendy Watriss,” on view now in the main building galleries. Admission is always free. | The Menil Collection
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Guided by their belief that photography’s accessibility offered a deeply humanist perspective on contemporary life, John and Dominique de Menil acquired a small yet powerful group of documentary images. See these moments in “Photography from the Menil Collection: Curated by Wendy Watriss,” on view now in the main building galleries. Admission is always free. | The Menil Collection
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Did you know that this untitled sculpture by Dan Flavin includes almost 250 fluorescent lamps? Watch as the Menil Collection's Conservation team replaces a few of the bulbs. See the artist's work at the Menil's Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall, home to one of the largest permanent displays of work by Flavin. | The Menil Collection
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Did you know that this untitled sculpture by Dan Flavin includes almost 250 fluorescent lamps? Watch as the Menil Collection's Conservation team replaces a few of the bulbs. See the artist's work at the Menil's Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall, home to one of the largest permanent displays of work by Flavin. | The Menil Collection
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"Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself" is open! Plan a visit to the Menil Drawing Institute this weekend to see the comprehensive exhibition featuring more than 100 works by the artist. Motherwell's multifaceted practice was geared towards invention and variation, and while it evolved stylistically, it remained united by thematic continuities and his desire to draw “as fast as the mind itself.” As always, admission is free. Learn more about the show at menil.org/robertmotherwell
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"Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself" is open! Plan a visit to the Menil Drawing Institute this weekend to see the comprehensive exhibition featuring more than 100 works by the artist. Motherwell's multifaceted practice was geared towards invention and variation, and while it evolved stylistically, it remained united by thematic continuities and his desire to draw “as fast as the mind itself.” As always, admission is free. Learn more about the show at menil.org/robertmotherwell
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It's final weeks to see "Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video" at the Menil Drawing Institute. Exhibition co-curator Kelly Montana speaks about how drawing practices intersected with the "network era" of the late 1950s into the 1980s. Explore how artists scrutinized, utilized, and subverted television and video—revitalizing the practice of drawing in the process—in the exhibition, on view through Feb. 8. | The Menil Collection
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It's final weeks to see "Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video" at the Menil Drawing Institute. Exhibition co-curator Kelly Montana speaks about how drawing practices intersected with the "network era" of the late 1950s into the 1980s. Explore how artists scrutinized, utilized, and subverted television and video—revitalizing the practice of drawing in the process—in the exhibition, on view through Feb. 8. | The Menil Collection
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For Robert Rauschenberg, fabric evoked touch, presence, and the lived experience. Get a glimpse of "Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s" and visit the exhibition in the Menil Collection's main building. 🎥 Slate50 Studio | The Menil Collection
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For Robert Rauschenberg, fabric evoked touch, presence, and the lived experience. Get a glimpse of "Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s" and visit the exhibition in the Menil Collection's main building. 🎥 Slate50 Studio | The Menil Collection
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In 1954, Meret Oppenheim began to make work intensively and engaged with numerous postwar movements, including Nouveau réalisme and Pop Art. Both sought to incorporate consumer goods and culture into the realm of high art. For example, she created numerous sculptures based on found, decorative picture frames, augmenting these with molded plaster shapes that evoke the body in subversively delicate or grotesque ways. Discover "Miss Gardenia" and "A Distant Relative" this week in "Meret Oppenheim:
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In 1954, Meret Oppenheim began to make work intensively and engaged with numerous postwar movements, including Nouveau réalisme and Pop Art. Both sought to incorporate consumer goods and culture into the realm of high art. For example, she created numerous sculptures based on found, decorative picture frames, augmenting these with molded plaster shapes that evoke the body in subversively delicate or grotesque ways. Discover "Miss Gardenia" and "A Distant Relative" this week in "Meret Oppenheim:
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“M.O.N.S.T.R.E.,” 1964, is likely the earliest collaboration between Niki de Saint Phalle and her partner Jean Tinguely. The kinetic sculpture was made for the 1964–65 exhibition “Constant Companions: An Exhibition of Mythological Animals, Demons and Monsters, Phantasmal Creatures and Various Anatomical Assemblages” at Houston’s University of St. Thomas. When it was made, Saint Phalle and Tinguely were very much in love, and Saint Phalle’s grandaughter Bloum Cardenas believes that there is a ten
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Meret Oppenheim’s iconic artwork “Object,” 1936, originated in a conversation that has itself become legendary. According to the artist’s frequently repeated story, she met Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar at Café de Flore in Paris in early 1936, sporting a fur-covered bracelet of her own making. Her dining companions admired it, and the trio joked that anything could be covered in fur—even, Oppenheim responded, “this cup!” Sometime later, André Breton asked her to participate in an exhibition of Sur
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Édouard Manet’s illustrated masterpiece—published 150 years ago—depicts American writer Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem, "The Raven," which is presented in Poe’s original English and a French translation by the poet and critic Stéphane Mallarmé. The Menil Library’s copy of “The Raven” is part of the William F. Stern Artist’s Books Collection, a bequest of William F. Stern in memory of his father, Joseph S. Stern, Jr. | The Menil Collection
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"Art of the Cameroon Grassfields, A Living Heritage in Houston" is now open! The exhibition features more than twenty works from the Grassfields region and recent artworks by Douala-based artist Hervé Youmbi. The show celebrates enduring artistic traditions from the region and its diaspora, highlighting the centuries-long patronage of royal courts in the Grassfields that continues to the present day. Plan your visit to see the show and learn more at menil.org/cameroon. | The Menil Collection
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Depicting nuclear holocaust as presented in a fictional newscast, Mimi Smith’s 1983 artist book “This is a Test” builds upon her “Television Drawings,” which she started in the 1970s when the daily news cycle became unavoidable. Find Smith’s works on view in “Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video” at the Menil Drawing Institute. “This is a Test” may be viewed at the Menil Library by appointment. 🎨 (1) Mimi Smith, “Violence in America, Good Evening,” 1977. Ink and gr
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Jewelry in the ancient Mediterranean was full of symbolism and often tied to superstitious beliefs (like protective amulets). This knot was worn in other ways too! If you were a Roman bride, you would likely wear this knot in a belt over your gown. You could also tie it over a wound to make it heal faster, according to Pliny 🌿 I’ll show some examples of ancient jewelry with this motif in my next post (this ring is 14k gold)
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Mediterranean Civilization: Ancient Greece, Rome & Minoans Explained
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In the Menil’s Surrealism galleries, see Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely’s “M.O.N.S.T.R.E.,” 1964. The kinetic sculpture is activated every hour, on the half hour. 🎨 Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, “M.O.N.S.T.R.E.,” 1964. Cast steel, iron, painted newsprint and fabric over wire, electric motor, plastic, rubber, plastic toys, fabric, and twine, 92 7/8 × 60 3/4 × 40 in. (235.9 × 154.3 × 101.6 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artists. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), N
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Terrifying painting worth a insane fortune #pawnshop #pawnstars #auction #collection #ancient
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The Ancient World of Greece #ancientgreece #documentary #retro #meditteranean #fyp
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Inside Lebanon: Ancient Mediterranean Wonders Revealed 🇱🇧✨ Discover the magic of Lebanon as the globe opens to reveal treasures inspired by the country’s rich heritage — from the majestic ruins of Baalbek to the natural beauty of Jeita Grotto, and the timeless forests of Cedars of God near Beirut. Watch shimmering sands uncover culture, history, and Mediterranean elegance in a calming cinematic ASMR experience — perfect for travel lovers and history explorers. ✨ Slow motion reveal ✨ Cultural s
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Exploring the Magnificence of Ancient Carthage
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Counting down to #midnight this #newyearseve with #walterdemaria’s “Ball Drop,” 1961/1964. 🪩 #MenilCollection #Menil #ParticipatoryArt #Houston #museumtok #KAYKissCountdown #arttok
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