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Inspired by the oak trees across the Menil Collection's campus? Bring a touch of nature into your home and sprout a new ...
06/03/2026

Inspired by the oak trees across the Menil Collection's campus? Bring a touch of nature into your home and sprout a new oak tree through an acorn vase, now available at the Menil Bookstore.

Visit the shop to browse a curated selection of gifts. The store is open today, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

In 1977–78, Cy Twombly produced a "painting in 10 parts," inspired by Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's "Iliad."Av...
06/02/2026

In 1977–78, Cy Twombly produced a "painting in 10 parts," inspired by Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's "Iliad."

Available at the Menil Bookstore is "Cy Twombly: Fifty Days at Iliam," a color reproduction of the artist's 10 large canvases evoking moments from Homer's epic poem.

Visit the shop—the store is open Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

Among the new titles available at the Menil Bookstore, find "Notes to a Black Woman" by Françoise Ega and "Diasporic Thr...
05/29/2026

Among the new titles available at the Menil Bookstore, find "Notes to a Black Woman" by Françoise Ega and "Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre & Textiles" by Sharbreon Plummer.

In "Notes to a Black Woman," Ega chronicles the experiences of domestic workers lured from their Caribbean homes to France, exposing their unjust living and working conditions and defending the dignity of migrant laborers. The zine "Diasporic Threads" surveys the history of Black women's contributions to art and history through fiber-related media, spotlighting five artists and their practices amid the intersections of race, art, and cultural memory.

Available at the Menil Bookstore is "Global Visions: FotoFest at 40." Drawing from 20 FotoFest Biennials, the volume off...
05/28/2026

Available at the Menil Bookstore is "Global Visions: FotoFest at 40." Drawing from 20 FotoFest Biennials, the volume offers photographs spanning over 150 years alongside accompanying essays, inviting readers to consider the enduring power of photography to connect us.

Purchase a copy today. The shop is open, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

The new title "Matthew Wong: Interiors" accompanies the artist's landmark solo exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale. T...
05/27/2026

The new title "Matthew Wong: Interiors" accompanies the artist's landmark solo exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Through painting and drawing, Wong examined the architecture and psychology of interior spaces. "These paintings are extremely open and vulnerable. But once they lure you in, they leave you alone to explore their chromatic, spatial, and psychological complexities," wrote The New York Times.

Stop by the Menil Bookstore soon to browse this among other new art titles.

Make this summer an art-filled one. Among the children's titles at the Menil Bookstore, find a variety of books introduc...
05/26/2026

Make this summer an art-filled one. Among the children's titles at the Menil Bookstore, find a variety of books introducing and celebrating art for readers of all ages.

Visit the store during its regular hours of Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective, curated by Walter Hopps in 1963, was a singular moment in 20th-century art history...
05/21/2026

Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective, curated by Walter Hopps in 1963, was a singular moment in 20th-century art history. The Menil Collection's publication "Duchamp in California" chronicles the show's conception and ex*****on, revealing an ascendant cultural history of Los Angeles in the early 1960s.

Explore the volume, which reproduces every art object in the show, and see why the exhibition was revered as an exemplar of curatorial practice.

Surveying political art in the 1920s and 30s, "Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented" examines how arti...
05/20/2026

Surveying political art in the 1920s and 30s, "Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented" examines how artists invented new visual languages in that era's shifts in industry, technology, and labor. The richly illustrated book was published on conjunction with a major Museum of Modern Art exhibition featuring works from the Merrill C. Berman Collection.

Stop by the Menil Bookstore to purchase a copy.

See what's new at the Menil Bookstore, including an array of friendly faces and ceramics by Jill Whitten. The shop is op...
05/19/2026

See what's new at the Menil Bookstore, including an array of friendly faces and ceramics by Jill Whitten. The shop is open Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

A key contributor to the Surrealism, Informal Art, and Art Brut movements, Croatian artist Slavko Kopač used painting, s...
05/14/2026

A key contributor to the Surrealism, Informal Art, and Art Brut movements, Croatian artist Slavko Kopač used painting, sculpture, and other media to blend reality and fantasy. Through his career, spanning Zagreb to Paris to Florence, Kopač collaborated with Jean Dubuffet, André Breton, and Yves Tanguy, among others.

Explore the interconnected nature of the mid-20th-century art world through artistic dialogues, previously unpublished works, and archive documents in the volume "Slavko Kopač. Hidden Treasure. Informal Art, Surrealism, Art Brut," available at the Menil Bookstore.

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