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 ...

In a city that loves its beer, there’s a newcomer that is certainly the most art-minded. And hoppiest. The exhibit, which spotlights Hopps’s curatorial vision, begins March 24 at the Montrose museum ...

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 ...

More recently, the Menil Collection opened “Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s.” In life, Rauschenberg was close with Dominique de Menil, and since the 1980s, the museum has tended to ...

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 ...

John R. Gossage, Portrait of Walter Hopps, 1969. Photograph. The Menil Collection, Houston, Promised Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps. Alas, I never met him. Rebecca Rabinow, ...

The Menil Collection this week announced the appointment of Franklin Sirmans as curator of modern and contemporary art, effective Sept. 5. Sirmans, born in 1969 in New York City, has degrees in art ...

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 ...

John R. Gossage, Portrait of Walter Hopps, 1969. Photograph. The Menil Collection, Houston, Promised Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps. I wish I'd known Walter Hopps. I was in ...