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.

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 ...

In 1945, when John de Menil returned from a business trip with a Cezanne watercolor in hand, his wife was skeptical. Dominique de Menil, known for pinching pennies, famously said that $300 was a lot ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greg Martin, former executive chef of Cafe Express, has been selected to run the kitchen at the long-anticipated cafe at the Menil Collection. The as-yet-to-be-named restaurant will be a "craft beer ...