Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walk a few blocks around the Menil Collection in the heart of Montrose, and it's easy to notice what isn't there. No towers, or ...

The Menil Collection is a serene gem in the heart of this boisterous city. To see its quiet presence on green lawns and surrounded by large trees, you might not suspect the pale gray clapboard ...

To embed this piece of audio in your site, please use this code: Walter Hopps was the founding director of Houston's Menil Collection. He changed the way many museums approach displaying their own ...

Vance Muse, the unfussy but urbane director of communications at the Menil Collection, retired Thursday after 16 years as the consummate back-of-the-house guy for a museum frequented by art world ...

In a city that loves its beer, there’s a newcomer that is certainly the most art-minded. And hoppiest. The exhibit, which spotlights Hopps’s curatorial vision, begins March 24 at the Montrose museum ...

The Menil Collection has found a new operator for its campus restaurant. Veteran Houston chef and restaurateur Claire Smith will open a new concept called Chrôma in early 2026. Located in the former ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exterior of the Menil Bookstore in Montrose (Lauren Marek) The Menil Bookstore opened in 1987, just a few months after the ...

A new Houston boutique stay near the Museum District offers striking design, walkable access to galleries and restaurants, ...

John R. Gossage, Portrait of Walter Hopps, 1969. Photograph. The Menil Collection, Houston, Promised Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps. Alas, I never met him. Rebecca Rabinow, ...

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 ...

I wish I'd known Walter Hopps. I was in Washington when he was director of the Corcoran Museum from 1967 to 1972. He clearly was a fascinating visionary, who garnered many adjectives in life and death ...