Last week, a man dressed in a suit and sunglasses casually spray-painted the word "conquista" and stenciled a bull over a 1929 Picasso at the Menil Collection before walking out.
June 21, 2012 | by Angela Washeck
The Menil removed "The Art Guys Marry a Plant," a controversial performance piece, from its collection, a move that is stirring up Houston's art scene once again.
January 14, 2013 | by Mimi Swartz
From Fort Worth’s Kimbell to Houston’s Menil, Texas’s museums are home to some of the world's most important paintings and sculptures. To devise a list of our ten greatest works on view, we asked more than sixty curators, gallery owners, critics, and other insiders for their favorites.
Most everyone agrees that Dominique de Menil did the right thing when she paid for two stolen Cypriot frescoes and had them painstakingly restored. But her decision to build a chapel to house them in Houston has proved controversial.
A new film presents a never-before-seen look at Dominique de Menil in her curatorial element.
Dominique de Menil loves beautiful things and interesting people. In forty years of collecting them she has changed Houston.
Underground Kingz, Sandra Cisneros, Wassailfest, and Phillip Glass . . .