In Houston’s newly opened Menil Drawing Institute, the exhibition “The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns” features all of the titular artist’s signature motifs: American flags, targets ...

HOUSTON — Talk with any bunch of art professionals about recently built museums and you’re likely to hear kvetch, kvetch, kvetch followed by an admiring reference to the Menil Collection. The Menil is ...

A trio of new work, two exhibitions and a wall drawing, have cropped up at the Menil Drawing Institute this fall. Their impetus is as interesting as the art itself. Most Menil Drawing Institute shows ...

Yet, according to William Middleton, author of the recent biography Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil, when Dominique was asked which one of all these ...

The Menil Drawing Institute, which has looked so enticingly ready for months from Richmond Avenue, will open Nov. 3 with an exhibition of works on paper by Jasper Johns that has been almost as highly ...

Joseph E. Yoakum is proof that it's never too late to try something new. The late artist began drawing landscapes at age 71. He had no formal training. By the time of his death in 1972, he'd drawn ...

The Menil Drawing Institute is taking shape, but the organization will be opening next fall with a new chief curator. David Breslin, who took the post 18 months ago, is leaving in October to assume ...