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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...