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By Bill Davenport on January 15, 2013
Mimi Swartz of Texas Monthly has been busy since Friday, when Glasstire published the Art Guys’ announcement that their controversial piece, The Art Guys Marry a Plant, was to be removed from the Menil Collection’s lawn, where it has been planted since 2011. On Friday, Swartz was CC’d a scathing email from artist James Surls [...]
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By Rainey Knudson on January 12, 2013
[Disclosure: I am married to one of The Art Guys. I am not an impartial bystander. Read the following with that in mind.] It was announced yesterday that the Menil Collection is removing the artwork The Art Guys Marry A Plant from its collection. Practically speaking, this means digging up a small tree and removing [...]
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By Bill Davenport on December 14, 2012
The Menil is topping off it’s 25th Anniversary with an installation of four major John Chamberlain sculptures in its foyer, reiterating its inaugural show of 1987. But they’ve been busy: the pieces have been restored (if that’s a word you ought to use for crushed auto parts) through a grant from Bank of America Art [...]
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By Joshua Fischer on December 9, 2012
In celebration of the Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this fall, Calvin Tomkins spoke at the Menil in conversation with director Josef Helfenstein. Because of the occasion, their discussion centered around artists connected to the Menils and Tomkins’ memories of John and Dominique de Menil. Tomkins even wore a kelly green tie in honor of John [...]
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By Bill Davenport on November 12, 2012
Josef Helfenstein, Director of the Menil Collection, announced Friday that independent curator Cuauhtémoc Medina has been chosen as the sixth recipient of the biennial Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. Established in 2001 in honor of Menil Founding Director Walter Hopps (1932–2005), the award recognizes curators in early to mid-career who have made significant contributions [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Cuauhtémoc Medina, josef helfenstein, manifesta 9, toby kamps, Walter Hopps |
By Bill Davenport on March 9, 2012
After a national search, Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, has named Sheryl Kolasinski to fill the institution’s newly minted position of Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer. Kolasinski will strategize with Helfenstein on long range plans, while overseeing the museum’s finances, real estate, bookstore, security, information technology, legal matters, and facilities operation and [...]
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By Bill Davenport on October 25, 2011
Michelle White, who curated such fascinating, unexpected shows as Imaginary Spaces: Selections from the Menil Collection; Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance, and the recently opened Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the Collection, has been promoted from associate to full curator at Houston’s Menil collection. Menil Director Josef Helfenstein said, “In a [...]
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By Bill Davenport on September 13, 2011
One upside of the Menil’s continuing moves towards doing things the way other museums do them is the addition of a much-needed cafe, announced yesterday. The Menil Collection and Rice University’s Rice Building Workshop are joining forces to design and construct a café across Sul Ross Street from the museum’s main entrance, on the 50-by-64-foot [...]
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By GT contributors on September 6, 2011
Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Hey North Texas: if you missed Eric Zimmerman’s recent shows at the Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace Gallery, or the Southwest [...]
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By Bill Davenport on August 8, 2011
Steven Thomson discusses Kristina Van Dyke’s move to the Pulitzer Foundation, the Menil’s role as a training ground for hot young curators, and the future of African art at the Menil with Director Josef Helfenstein on Culturemap, pointing out that Van Dyke follows Franklin Sirmans and Susan Davidson to bigger and better things following a [...]
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By Bill Davenport on July 1, 2011
Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil has been selected as 2010’s best book on an art collection by the International Art Book and Film Festival of Perpignan, France. Co-editors Josef Helfenstein and Laureen Schipsi will accept the award at the festival this weekend.
Posted in Newswire | Tagged book festival award, dominique de menil, helfenstein schipsi, josef helfenstein, laureen schipsi, lauren schipsi, perpignan france bok festival |