Art
April 23, 2024
The Artist Who Wonders What Creatures on Other Planets Will Think of Chuck Berry
A new show in Fort Worth features the unclassifiable San Antonio–born artist, who connects deep space and the ancient fossil record.
Menil Collection
Film & TV
November 16, 2023
Four Reasons December Will Be a Great Month in Texas Culture
The Von Erichs get the Hollywood treatment, Tomball raises its stein, Beyoncé resurrects the Renaissance tour, and a Houston artist is golden.
Art
August 8, 2023
Meet Artist Nestor Topchy, the Mad Genius Hidden in Houston Heights
Behind a rim of freeze-dried giant bamboo and scraggly trees, in a Houston Heights neighborhood caught between old apartments and new townhomes, lies the compound that has been artist Nestor Topchy’s laboratory for twenty-odd years. His place is a natural habitat for wildlife and his own wildest dreams; if there could
Art
June 13, 2022
The Story Behind the Story of One of Houston’s Greatest Art Collections
Texas Monthly writer Michael Ennis’s profile of museum director Walter Hopps took readers inside the Menil Collection’s founding.
Art
February 10, 2022
Why the Menil Collection Is No Longer Houston’s Best Art Museum
How Houston's Museum of Fine Arts overtook the Menil Collection.
Art
October 12, 2021
In Houston, a Pioneering Feminist Artist Finally Gets the Spotlight
Niki de Saint Phalle fired rifles at her canvases, creating dazzling explosions of color.
Art
November 2, 2018
The New Menil Drawing Institute Completes a Major Makeover
The $40 million building is the most significant addition to the Menil campus in decades.
Art
March 23, 2015
Where to Become an Art Patron
A guide to three great Texas museums.
Art
January 21, 2013
Who Vandalized the Menil Collection’s Picasso?
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.
Art
January 21, 2013
Straight From the Art
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.
Art
January 21, 2013
The Art Lover’s Companion
More than sixty art insiders gave us their list of favorite works of art to see in Texas. So grab your notepad, sketchbook, or iPad and take the ultimate tour of must-see art in Texas.
Art
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Jordan Breal
The associate editor on covering the arts scene in Texas.
Art
January 20, 2013
Dominique de Menil Remembered
Dominique de Menil—1908-1997
Art
January 20, 2013
“What I Admire I Must Possess”
Dominique de Menil loves beautiful things and interesting people. In forty years of collecting them she has changed Houston.
Art
January 14, 2013
The Menil Divorces the Art Guys
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.
Arts & Entertainment
January 1, 1997
Whose Art Is It, Anyway?
In February two stolen frescoes paid for and restored by Dominique de Menil will be unveiled in a new Eastern Orthodox chapel in Houston.
Art
May 31, 1987
New Kid on the Block
The Menil Collection has received so much attention that its opening this month may seem anticlimactic. The only unknown is what the director plans to do with it all.