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Menil Drawing Institute

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1412 W Main St, Houston, TX 77006

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Upcoming Events (7)

Film Screening & Panel Discussion: SNCC, Sit-Ins, and "The Strange Demise of Jim Crow
Thu, Jul 30, 20267:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Holding Freedom: Ghana in the Menil Collection
Thu, Aug 6, 20267:00 PM
Lecture: Stokely in Houston: Black Power, Pan-Africanism, and the Diasporic Imagination
Thu, Aug 13, 20267:00 PM
Freedom Ride: Houston Civil Rights Bus Tour
Sat, Aug 15, 202611:00 AM
Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s
Sat, Sep 19, 2026
Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video
Sat, Oct 3, 2026
Installation view of Tacita Dean: Blind Folly at the Menil Collection, Houston. Photo: Lauren Marek
Fri, Dec 11, 2026

Upcoming Exhibitions Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight is the first major museum exhibition in thirty years devoted to the work of this pioneering artist. Renowned for his innovative approach to non-representational painting, Overstreet consistently sought to intertwine abstraction and social politics. This presentation includes his landmark Flight Pattern series of radially suspended paintings from the early 1970s, as well as related bodies of work from the 1960s and 1

Recent Past Events at Menil Drawing Institute

Curator Talk: Eduoard Kopp on "The Gift of Drawing: Cy TwomblySun, Jul 26, 2026
Curator Talk: Michelle White on "John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The DogSun, Jul 19, 2026
Women in Abstraction, Chryssa and Dorothy HoodThu, Jul 16, 2026
Film Screening: "Hairy Who & The Chicago ImagistsFri, Jun 26, 2026
DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen!Sat, Jun 20, 2026
Inprint Writing WorkoutSat, Jun 6, 2026
Panel Discussion: Unruly Lines: The Legacy of the Hairy WhoThu, May 28, 2026
The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil HouseSat, May 23, 2026
November 2, 2025, Main BuildingSat, May 23, 2026
Artist Talk: Sam DurantThu, May 21, 2026
Writers In the Schools Poetry ReadingFri, May 15, 2026
The Watchful Eye: WITS Young Writers ReadingFri, May 15, 2026
Lecture: Drawing as TechnologyThu, May 7, 2026
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)Sat, May 2, 2026
Member Noontime Talk: The Surrealism Galleries with Natalie DupêcherFri, May 1, 2026

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