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.

Tacita Dean carries a small piece of ordinary classroom white chalk around in her repair kit. It's hard to imagine that she creates somewhat daunting natural disaster scenes across a 12-foot by ...

February marks the 30th anniversary of the Cy Twombly Gallery, a part of the Menil Collection, in Montrose. A monumental gift from the Cy Twombly Foundation in Italy helped the museum celebrate a ...

With the recent appointment of architecture firms Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and Johnston Marklee, the Menil Collection slowly moves forward with its plan to enhance and expand the museum’s ...

Menil Collection Director Josef Helfenstein has announced he is stepping down after a twelve-year tenure. Vance Muse is with the Menil Collection. He says Helfenstein has left a lasting impression.

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 ...

This story has been updated. When she worked as a volunteer at The Menil Collection after college in 1988, Rebecca Rabinow had no way of knowing she'd be returning nearly three decades later to run ...

On Saturday, the Menil Collection’s main building will reopen after six months of renovations and a major reinstallation of the permanent collection. Return visitors to the Houston museum will ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A portion of the Menil Collection will be closed for eight months while its pine floors are sanded and refinished, according to a spokesperson at the museum. After 30 years of ...