The Menil Collection’s newest exhibition opened in late January, highlighting three defining series of work by pioneering abstract artist Joe Overstreet. It highlights three defining series of work by ...

An intensely yellow wall announces the arrival of a new exhibition at the Menil Collection. It’s a head-turning hue — appearing marigold from some angles and almost ivory from others. A small, ceramic ...

In the 1960s, Greek-born sculptor Chryssa was one of the most celebrated artists in the world. Her masterpiece, the 10-foot-tall Gates to Times Square, was called "one of the most important American ...

More often than not, museum exhibitions celebrate the work of a singular artist, theme or collector. With "Abstraction After Modernism: Recent Acquisitions," the Menil Collection celebrates itself, in ...

Walter Hopps was a visionary and — long before Instagram — an influencer. The Menil Collection in Houston is showing works by 70 artists Hopps... I wish I'd known Walter Hopps. I was in Washington ...

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 ...

“We are known for shows where artists come and investigate the collection,” says Paul Davis, curator of the exhibition. “That goes back to Andy Warhol’s Raid the Icebox. The way Francesca has done it ...

Abstract Expressionism is one of art history’s most well-worn stories. After the Renaissance and Impressionism, maybe the most well-worn. Jackson Pollock. Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Lee Krasner.