The new Menil Drawing Institute looks like a stealth jet of a building from Richmond Avenue, so sleek and low-slung that passersby might not notice it across the expanse of grass where the Richmont ...

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.

Ten years after it was founded, the Menil Drawing Institute will finally open the doors to its own freestanding building on Saturday, November 3. Designed by Los Angeles-based architecture firm ...

The Menil Drawing Institute, Houston (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) HOUSTON — After six years in the making and $40 million in investment, the Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) building ...

The Menil Drawing Institute already feels like a wonderful house inside, with daylight and shadows washing the angled ceiling of the "living room" entry space above the construction scaffolding and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Curator Eduardo Kopp, speaks about a piece in the new "The Gift of Drawing: Cy Twombly," exhibition at the Menil Drawing Institute ...

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 ...

Houston's world-renowned Menil Collection has selected Bernice Berend Rose, formerly of New York's Museum of Modern Art, as chief curator of the museum's long-planned Drawings Institute. Rose will ...