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Did you know that this untitled sculpture by Dan Flavin includes almost 250 fluorescent lamps? Watch as the Menil Collection's Conservation team replaces a few of the bulbs. See the artist's work at the Menil's Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall, home to one of the largest permanent displays of work by Flavin. | The Menil Collection
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Did you know that this untitled sculpture by Dan Flavin includes almost 250 fluorescent lamps? Watch as the Menil Collection's Conservation team replaces a few of the bulbs. See the artist's work at the Menil's Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall, home to one of the largest permanent displays of work by Flavin. | The Menil Collection
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Take a peek into the preparation of the smallest works featured in "Photography from The Menil Collection: Curated by Wendy Watriss." Dating from the mid-late 19th century, these photographs are the oldest of the nearly fifty works on view. The exhibition is on view through May 31. | The Menil Collection
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Take a peek into the preparation of the smallest works featured in "Photography from The Menil Collection: Curated by Wendy Watriss." Dating from the mid-late 19th century, these photographs are the oldest of the nearly fifty works on view. The exhibition is on view through May 31. | The Menil Collection
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For Robert Rauschenberg, fabric evoked touch, presence, and the lived experience. Get a glimpse of "Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s" and visit the exhibition in the Menil Collection's main building. 🎥 Slate50 Studio | The Menil Collection
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For Robert Rauschenberg, fabric evoked touch, presence, and the lived experience. Get a glimpse of "Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s" and visit the exhibition in the Menil Collection's main building. 🎥 Slate50 Studio | The Menil Collection
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Guided by their belief that photography’s accessibility offered a deeply humanist perspective on contemporary life, John and Dominique de Menil acquired a small yet powerful group of documentary images. See these moments in “Photography from the Menil Collection: Curated by Wendy Watriss,” on view now in the main building galleries. Admission is always free. | The Menil Collection
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Guided by their belief that photography’s accessibility offered a deeply humanist perspective on contemporary life, John and Dominique de Menil acquired a small yet powerful group of documentary images. See these moments in “Photography from the Menil Collection: Curated by Wendy Watriss,” on view now in the main building galleries. Admission is always free. | The Menil Collection
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Plan an afternoon at the Menil Collection. The museum’s art buildings are open Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m., while green spaces are open daily from dawn to dusk. Admission is always free. | The Menil Collection
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It's final weeks to see "Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video" at the Menil Drawing Institute. Exhibition co-curator Kelly Montana speaks about how drawing practices intersected with the "network era" of the late 1950s into the 1980s. Explore how artists scrutinized, utilized, and subverted television and video—revitalizing the practice of drawing in the process—in the exhibition, on view through Feb. 8. | The Menil Collection
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Édouard Manet’s illustrated masterpiece—published 150 years ago—depicts American writer Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem, "The Raven," which is presented in Poe’s original English and a French translation by the poet and critic Stéphane Mallarmé. The Menil Library’s copy of “The Raven” is part of the William F. Stern Artist’s Books Collection, a bequest of William F. Stern in memory of his father, Joseph S. Stern, Jr. | The Menil Collection
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November 4 is Ask a Conservator Day. 💬 This year, the Menil's conservation team will answer your questions about the museum's outdoor sculptures and the work done to maintain them. The neighborhood is punctuated with artworks by Michael Heizer, Ellsworth Kelly, Jim Love, Max Neuhaus, and Mark di Suvero. Leave your questions in the comments below. We'll answer them next week on menil.org. | The Menil Collection
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In the Menil’s Surrealism galleries, see Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely’s “M.O.N.S.T.R.E.,” 1964. The kinetic sculpture is activated every hour, on the half hour. 🎨 Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, “M.O.N.S.T.R.E.,” 1964. Cast steel, iron, painted newsprint and fabric over wire, electric motor, plastic, rubber, plastic toys, fabric, and twine, 92 7/8 × 60 3/4 × 40 in. (235.9 × 154.3 × 101.6 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artists. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), N
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In the Menil Collection's Surrealism galleries, see a new installation of art from the collection, including paintings by Mark Rothko, Kay Sage, and Max Ernst and a sculpture by Roberto Matta. #Menil #MenilCollection
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Inside the Menil Collection's model room, where curators play with galleries like dollhouses
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A new installation titled “Longing, Grief, and Spirituality: Art Since 1980” is open. Watch along as artist Mel Chin installs his monumental work "Our Strange Flower of Democracy," 2005. "Our Strange Flower of Democracy" is based on the form of a “daisy cutter” bomb, first used by the American military forces in Vietnam. The bombs’ pressure sensors were located at the end of the long lower arm, so it would detonate when the arm touched the ground. The trigger of Chin’s bamboo version is position
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René Magritte often mined art history for inspiration. In the early 1950s, he created several paintings based on the Neoclassical French painter Jacques-Louis David’s "Madame Récamier," a portrait of the Parisian socialite Juliette Récamier lounging in a daybed. In his painting, Magritte closely tracked David’s original composition, including the daybed, footstool, and lamp—crucially, though, he replaced the figure of Madame Récamier with a wooden coffin. In early 1967, Magritte revisited his ea
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Watch and learn about how light affected this 1947-49 work, "Untitled (Decoupage Cabinet, Comédies et proverbs)," by artist Joseph Cornell with the museum's Assistant Objects Conservator, Joy Bloser. 🎨: Joseph Cornell, "Untitled (Decoupage Cabinet, Comédies et proverbes)," ca. 1947-1949. Wood, glass, paper, printed paper, velvet, book pages, brass, and matchboxes, 8 1/4 × 6 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (21 × 17.1 × 9.5 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Bequest of Jermayne MacAgy. © The Joseph and Robert C
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Immerse yourself in Cy Twombly's 9-part series of "green paintings." The artist made the work for the 1988 Venice Biennale and noted that in the depths of the hot and humid summer show, he wanted the works to feel like a cool mint julep. Refresh this week and see these works at the Cy Twombly gallery at menil.org/visit. Cover 🎨: Cy Twombly, "Untitled" (detail), 1988. Oil and acrylic on plywood. 103 7/16 × 63 1/4 in. (262.7 × 160.7 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artist. © Menil
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A new installation of Modern and Contemporary art opens next month! Watch this sneak peek of our conservation team working on Robert Gober's "Untitled," 1999-2000, earlier this year. 🎨: Robert Gober, "Untitled," 1999-2000. Plaster, beeswax, human hair, cotton, leather, aluminum pull tabs, steel, and enamel paint, 50 3/4 × 47 × 26 1/4 in. (128.9 × 119.4 × 66.7 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Anonymous gift. © Robert Gober | The Menil Collection
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