The Menil Collection will present "Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video," a presentation that surveys the various ways in which artists have responded to television and video imagery through drawing.

The exhibition highlights a period known as the “network era,” from the 1950s to the 1980s, when television became more pervasive in society and reached its apex as a tool for cultural control, while also seeding acts of political dissent and artistic experimentation.

The display will feature more than 50 works on paper, video, mixed media sculpture, and an immersive installation, created by 25 artists from 10 countries. The title of the exhibition refers to the amount of detail a television or video system can reproduce, while highlighting artists’ unwavering commitment to these emergent media. In the second half of the 20th century, electronic screens became a source of imagery, a surface for inscription, and a device that could be manipulated to generate entirely new kinds of drawing.

The exhibition will remain on display at the Menil Drawing Institute through February 8, 2026.