the Menil collection Archive
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![A latecomer to the art scene, Barnett Newman (1905-1970) held his first solo show in 1948, at New York’s Betty Parsons Gallery. He made a formidable impact on the art […]](https://i0.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/03a_NewmanMenil_install_Shimmer-Midnight_web.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "Total Surface: Barnett Newman’s Late Work / Interviews with Michelle White and Bradford A. Epley by David Ebony")
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Total Surface: Barnett Newman’s Late Work / Interviews with Michelle White and Bradford A. Epley by David Ebony
Posted on August 26, 2015A latecomer to the art scene, Barnett Newman (1905-1970) held his first solo show in 1948, at New York’s Betty Parsons Gallery. He made a formidable impact on the art […] -
![David Ebony— For the innovative work she produced in the 1960s—large-scale abstract relief sculptures made of welded steel, canvas, wire and soot—Lee Bontecou has earned a very lofty position in […]](https://i2.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/02/ebony_bontecou_crop.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "Lee Bontecou’s Inventions by David Ebony: An Interview with Joan Banach")
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Lee Bontecou’s Inventions by David Ebony: An Interview with Joan Banach
Posted on February 26, 2014David Ebony— For the innovative work she produced in the 1960s—large-scale abstract relief sculptures made of welded steel, canvas, wire and soot—Lee Bontecou has earned a very lofty position in […] -
![This Sunday the Forrest Bess:Seeing Things Invisible exhibition opens at the Neuberger Museum—the final stop on a tour that has included The Menil Collection in Texas and the Hammer Museum […]](https://i0.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/02/bess_crop.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "En Plein Air: Texas Gulf Coast Style")
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En Plein Air: Texas Gulf Coast Style
Posted on February 14, 2014This Sunday the Forrest Bess:Seeing Things Invisible exhibition opens at the Neuberger Museum—the final stop on a tour that has included The Menil Collection in Texas and the Hammer Museum […] -
![Follow @yaleARTbooks In the past year, we published exhibition catalogs accompanying an impressive list of museum exhibition. Below you will find the complete listing of these exhibitions, many of which […]](https://i2.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2013/08/museumexhibitionsaugust.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "Yale ARTbooks Museum Exhibitions On View, August 28, 2013")
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Yale ARTbooks Museum Exhibitions On View, August 28, 2013
Posted on August 28, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks In the past year, we published exhibition catalogs accompanying an impressive list of museum exhibition. Below you will find the complete listing of these exhibitions, many of which […] -
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Art and Activism
Posted on August 29, 2011As noted in Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil, edited by Josef Helfenstein and Laureen Schipsi, the de Menils’ collection was a conscious effort to increase others’ welfare. They considered art “a basic human necessity,” not something to be monopolized by the rich, and intended their art to educate generations that came long after them.