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Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events — including helping the Screech Owl

By Joel Luks

01.10.13 | 3:39 pm

What to do this week? Here's your weekly guide to what's hot, interesting and thought-provoking in Houston. On the itinerary are events that question the definition of love, music with the ...

Lovefest

With 25th anniversary celebrations in full effect, Menil looks to ideas of love for its newest exhibit

By Tyler Rudick

12.02.12 | 5:00 pm

As its 25th anniversary celebration reaches a high point this weekend with special galas and a rare performance by Philip Glass, the Menil Collection has mounted a new exhibit aimed at exploring th ...

all together now

All you need is love: Menil to take part in an innovative global exhibit on the art of romance

By Tyler Rudick

07.26.12 | 5:45 pm

In a unique Transatlantic collaboration, the Menil Collection is set to join St. Louis' Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos in Nigeria for a global ...

Cultural Heritage 2.0

Who owns the art? As Byzantine frescoes depart, the Menil reevaluates cultural exchange

By Tyler Rudick

11.13.11 | 9:51 am

As its famously-loaned Byzantine frescoes approach their imminent return to Cyprus next year, The Menil Collection hosted a panel discussion exploring the role of museum ownership in the 21st centu ...

Art news

Curator carousel: As Kristina Van Dyke exits, Josef Helfenstein explains why the Menil is such a good training ground

By Steven Thomson

08.05.11 | 1:29 pm

In less than six years as the curator of collections and research at the Menil Collection, Kristina Van Dyke rapidly reenvisioned how the Houston museum presents its non-Western art collection and ...

Don't Miss List

From King Tut to British ballet to paintings that stare back, Houston's arts scene builds anticipation

By Joseph Campana

08.02.11 | 6:05 pm

Editors Note: We've asked Houston arts leaders and CultureMap contributors to pick the jewels from Houston's upcoming arts season — the events that they cannot imagine missing. Here i ...

Hometown Glory

As Menil exhibit Arctic Realities prepares to close, NPR sings its praises

By Steven Thomson

07.16.11 | 9:30 am

The Menil Collection exhibition Upside Down: Arctic Realities enjoyed a spotlight on a recent segment of National Public Radio. Reporter Wade Goodwyn praised the "cool exhibit" as a ...

The Year In Culture

Less blockbuster, more indie surprises: A call for fewer Texas-sized art exhibits in 2011

By Joseph Campana

12.27.10 | 2:56 pm

What I want most from art is surprise. I want something that delights or shocks and makes the whole world seem new. As I looked back on a heady year of art in 2010, I thought about what has kept me ...

Illustrated Conversation: History of the Slave Trade and Visual Culture in Cameroon and Nigeria

The Menil Collection

12.01.10

This program concludes the collaborative Menil/UH Art History class designed to gauge the effects of the Atlantic slave trade in the visual culture of Nigeria and Cameroon, among them: masks, sculp

Secrets abound

Art experts come out of the shadows: Houston curators reveal their insider fall picks

By Joseph Campana

08.31.10 | 4:58 pm

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder. But long before any has the chance to stand in front of a work of art determining if it is beautiful, strange, funny or surprising, the tireless and mostly ...