HOUSTON — Talk with any bunch of art professionals about recently built museums and you’re likely to hear kvetch, kvetch, kvetch followed by an admiring reference to the Menil Collection. The Menil is ...

The Menil Drawing Institute, Houston (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) HOUSTON — After six years in the making and $40 million in investment, the Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) building ...

Ten years after it was founded, the Menil Drawing Institute will finally open the doors to its own freestanding building on Saturday, November 3. Designed by Los Angeles-based architecture firm ...

The Menil Drawing Institute, which has looked so enticingly ready for months from Richmond Avenue, will open Nov. 3 with an exhibition of works on paper by Jasper Johns that has been almost as highly ...

Joseph E. Yoakum is proof that it's never too late to try something new. The late artist began drawing landscapes at age 71. He had no formal training. By the time of his death in 1972, he'd drawn ...

Drawings, which have long been a strength of the storied Menil Collection, will step into the spotlight when the Houston museum unveils its new 30,000-square-foot Menil Drawing Institute next month.

The new Menil Drawing Institute looks like a stealth jet of a building from Richmond Avenue, so sleek and low-slung that passersby might not notice it across the expanse of grass where the Richmont ...

Since the grand opening of its Renzo Piano-designed main building in 1987, Houston’s Menil Collection has been described as serene, spiritual, self-effacing. Subsequent enhancements to the Menil ...

While Houston’s Menil Collection is best known for eclectic art holdings—from medieval sculpture to Surrealism and contemporary works—it’s also notable for visionary leadership. When the museum opened ...

The new Menil Drawing Institute, part of the Menil Collection, opened up to the public on Saturday, Nov. 3. According to the Menil, the Institute is the first free standing museum built expressly for ...