News releases by year: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

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11.9.2012
Menil Announces Cuauhtemoc Medina Recipient of 2012 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement

10.29.12
Philip Glass in Concert at the Menil

9.27.2012
Calvin Tomkins in Conversation at the Menil

9.11.2012
Happy 25th Birthday, Menil!

9.6.2012
Memnosyne Foundation presents “Gifts of the Spirit – Gifts of Healing”

9.5.2012
Menil Launches a Season of Celebrations for its 25th Anniversary

8.28.2012
Claes Oldenburg: Strange Eggs

7.11.2012
Dear John & Dominique: Letters and Drawings from the Menil Archives

7.9.2012
The Progress of Love

6.29.2012
Silence

6.8.2012
Menil Selects Architects for Drawing Institute: Johnston-Marklee

5.21.2012
Menil to Participate in Blue Star Museums

4.19.2012
Menil to Mark 25th Anniversary with “A Celebration in Blue”

4.13.2012
Menil Announces Short List of Four Architecture Firms to Design New Menil Drawing Institute

3.15.2012
Corporate Conversations IV

3.12.2012
Bank of America Art Conservation Project Grant to Fund Restoration of John Chamberlain Sculptures in Menil Collection

3.8.2012
This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs

3.7.2012
Menil Names Sheryl Kolasinski As Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer

2.1.2012
Landmark Exhibition – Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts – Opens March 2 at the Menil Collection

1.31.2012
Men of Menil – The Art of Sumo

1.30.2012
Menil Announces Public Events Honoring Return of Byzantine Frescos

1.17.2012
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective

12.13.2011
Tribal Art Book Prize Awarded to Menil Exhibition Catalogue: Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea

10.24.2011
Michelle White Named Menil Curator

10.14.2011
Menil Launches Online Artists Documentation Program Archive, In Partnership with Whitney Museum of American Art and Harvard Art Museums

10.3.2011
Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection

9.12.2011
Rice Building Workshop Designs Cafe for the Menil Collection

8.15.2011
Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the Collection

8.11.2011
Walter De Maria: Trilogies

6.20.2011
Art & Activism Wins International Book Award

5.2.2011
Dinka: Legendary Cattle Keepers of Sudan
An Evening with Photographers Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher

4.11.2011
Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea

3.14.2011
Upside Down: Arctic Realities

2.2.2011
The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil

12.14.2010
Menil Announces 2011 Hopps Award Recipient – Adam Szymczyk

12.01.2010
Tony Smith: Drawings

10.27.2010
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster 1964-66

10.27.2010
David McGee’s Ready Made Africans

10.11.2010
Third Biennial Rice/Menil Lecture Series – The Risible Visual: Humor & Art

9.10.2010
The Menil to Publish the Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings of Jasper Johns

9.7.2010
Henri Rousseau: Paint + Process

8.25.2010
Menil Bookstore to Reopen September 1st

8.23.2010
Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage

8.12.2010
Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions

8.5.2010
Objects of Devotion

7.26.2010
Art & Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil

7.14.2010
Menil names Toby Kamps New Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

3.16.2010
Steve Wolfe on Paper

2.9.2010
Leaps into the Void

12.18.2009
Maurizio Cattelan at The Menil

9.21.2009
Menil names Michelle White Associate Curator

9.14.2009
Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil

7.21.2009
Body in Fragments

6.23.2009
Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood
Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood – spanish version

4.15.2009
Drawings On Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

3.11.2009
A new lecture series: Making History: Curating Contemporary Art

2.26.2009
Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection

2.11.2009
Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave

1.26.2009
Menil selects David Chipperfield Architects for Master Site Plan

1.9.2009
Maria Lind is New Recipient of Menil’s
Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement

10.28.2008
Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie

8.5.2008
Art and Power in the Central African Savanna

8.4.2008
Menil Names Emily Todd Deputy Director

7.7.2008
Imaginary Spaces

6.23.2008
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith

4.2.2008
New Installation of African Art Galleries

9.17.2007
Menil Announces Bernice Rose as Chief Curator of Menil Collection’s Drawing Institute and Study Center

10.24.2006
Menil Names New Chief Conservator