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Before joining the Menil Collection as director in 1983, he had worked with Mrs. de Menil on planning the museum and its program. [21] Between 1999 and 2003, Ned Rifkin served as the museum's director; [ 8 ] during his time in office, there were frequent clashes over the museum's direction and whether Rifkin was departing from the vision of its ...
Charmstone is a stone pendant sculpture by Michael Heizer, installed outside the main entrance of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, United States. [1] [2] [3]
John and Dominique de Ménil began collecting art intensively in the 1940s, beginning with a purchase of Paul Cézanne's 1895 painting Montagne (Mountain) in 1945.The de Ménils' Catholic faith, especially their interest in Father Yves Marie Joseph Congar's teachings on ecumenism, would become crucial in the development of their collecting ethos in the coming decades. [1]
John and Dominique de Menil began collecting art intensively in the 1940s, beginning with a purchase of Paul Cézanne's 1895 painting Montagne (Mountain) in 1945.With the guidance of the Dominican priest Marie-Alain Couturier, who introduced the de Menils to the work of artists in galleries and museums in New York, they became interested in the intersection of modern art and spirituality.
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The Byzantine Fresco Chapel is a part of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, near the University of St. Thomas.From February 1997 to February 2012, it displayed the only intact Byzantine frescoes of this size and importance in the western hemisphere.
The Listening Room (La Chambre d'Écoute, 1952) is an oil on canvas painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte which is currently part of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. [1] A later version of the painting (also of the same name) was made in 1958 and is held in a private collection. [2]
The Menil Collection, Houston: Licensing. This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in ...