The Menil Collection’s newest exhibition opened in late January, highlighting three defining series of work by pioneering abstract artist Joe Overstreet. It highlights three defining series of work by ...

More often than not, museum exhibitions celebrate the work of a singular artist, theme or collector. With "Abstraction After Modernism: Recent Acquisitions," the Menil Collection celebrates itself, in ...

Should you enter the Menil Collection's main building on the Branard St. side, there'll be a nondescript white wall to your left. You'll need to squeak past the security guard behind a rather ...

Abstract Expressionism is one of art history’s most well-worn stories. After the Renaissance and Impressionism, maybe the most well-worn. Jackson Pollock. Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Lee Krasner.

Walter Hopps was a visionary and — long before Instagram — an influencer. The Menil Collection in Houston is showing works by 70 artists Hopps... I wish I'd known Walter Hopps. I was in Washington ...

More recently, the Menil Collection opened “Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s.” In life, Rauschenberg was close with Dominique de Menil, and since the 1980s, the museum has tended to ...

“We are known for shows where artists come and investigate the collection,” says Paul Davis, curator of the exhibition. “That goes back to Andy Warhol’s Raid the Icebox. The way Francesca has done it ...

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 ...

Tucked away in a Montrose neighborhood, the Menil Collection has always taken pains to blend with its surroundings. Its Renzo Piano-designed main building, a masterpiece of understatement, features ...

Walter Hopps, a legendary figure in the international art world and founding director of the Menil Collection, died Sunday in Los Angeles, where he had given a speech earlier this month. He was 72. A ...