Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exterior of the Menil Bookstore in Montrose (Lauren Marek) The Menil Bookstore opened in 1987, just a few months after the ...

The Menil Collection’s newest exhibition opened in late January, highlighting three defining series of work by pioneering abstract artist Joe Overstreet. It highlights three defining series of work by ...

Photographer Samuel Fosso transforms into more than a dozen 20th-century Black freedom leaders for a new exhibit at The Menil Collection. “Samuel Fosso: African Spirits,” which opened Friday at the ...

Should you enter the Menil Collection's main building on the Branard St. side, there'll be a nondescript white wall to your left. You'll need to squeak past the security guard behind a rather ...

To embed this piece of audio in your site, please use this code: Walter Hopps was the founding director of Houston's Menil Collection. He changed the way many museums approach displaying their own ...

In the 1960s, Greek-born sculptor Chryssa was one of the most celebrated artists in the world. Her masterpiece, the 10-foot-tall Gates to Times Square, was called "one of the most important American ...

Abstract Expressionism is one of art history’s most well-worn stories. After the Renaissance and Impressionism, maybe the most well-worn. Jackson Pollock. Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Lee Krasner.

As an arts writer it should be no surprise that I have visited lots of big-name museums over the years. Some are fully deserving of name recognition — MOMA, The Tate Gallery, Musée D’Orsay. Some are ...

Many exhibitions around the country will showcase artists’ responses to political and social movements, and to their own histories. By Morgan Malget In the artist’s first major U.S. museum survey, she ...

The Menil Collection is a serene gem in the heart of this boisterous city. To see its quiet presence on green lawns and surrounded by large trees, you might not suspect the pale gray clapboard ...

The Menil Collection, in the midst of a major expansion, is losing its much-respected leader. Director Josef Helfenstein has been hired as the next director of Switzerland's Kunstmuseum Basel, one of ...