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	Institute of International Education (IIE) Southern Region -- Houston
		The Institute of International Education is grateful to John and Dominique de Menil, both for their leadership and the generous loan of art from The Menil Collection.
		As Charles Duncan, former chairman of the Rice University Board of Governors, observed, Dominique was “a great believer in education as being fundamental to the solution of today’s problems.” In 1986, she collaborated with former President Jimmy Carter to establish the Carter-Menil Human Rights Foundation.
		Dominique de Menil shared this dedication to international understanding and the arts.
	www.iie-houston.org /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=51 (200 words)

	Menil Collection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dominique de Menil was heiress to the Schlumberger oil drilling fortune and John de Menil was an executive of the Schlumberger.
		The Menil Collection, in Houston, houses the art collection of founders Dominique and John de Menil.
		The Menil Collection is located near the University of St. Thomas in the Montrose district of Houston.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Menil_Collection (164 words)

	Menil Collection
		Shortly after their arrival to the United States in 1941, Dominique and John de Menil began to amass what would soon become one of the nation's most important collections of art.
		Commissioning Italian architect Renzo Piano to design a space for the holdings, Dominique forged ahead with plans and the Menil Collection opened its doors to the public in 1987.
		Decades later, the de Menils began to forge plans to create a permanent home for the collection, though the project came to a halt after John's death in 1973.
	www.houston.com /attractions/menilcollections.html (196 words)

	"de Menil, John, 1904-1973" Correspondence: Thomas Merton Center
		John de Menil (husband of Dominique de Menil) writes from Houston, Texas.
		A prominent oil family, the de Menils collected one of the largest and most important American collections of art.
		Thomas Merton's Correspondence with: de Menil, John, 1904-1973
	www.merton.org /Research/Correspondence/zc230.html (297 words)

	Menil Collection Museum/Attraction Review Houston Frommers.com
		Jean and Dominique de Menil arrived in Houston in the 1940s, fleeing the war in Europe.
		A block south of the Rothko Chapel is the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum, which is worth seeing as much for the building that houses them (designed by François de Menil, son of Jean and Dominique) as for the frescoes themselves, which were ransomed from international art thieves.
		Their collection, especially the modern art, is vast, so much so that only a fifth of it can be exhibited in the museum at one time.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/houston/A28385.html (566 words)

	The Menil Collection
		de Menil had a great love for light, and wanted the light in her museum to be bright, throbbing, as variable as the day - so as to permit ever changing perceptions of the colours in the works.
		de Menil had firm ideas about what she wanted from the museum - she wanted it to be an experimental musuem, one that would function simultaneously as a restoration center, exhibition site and village.
		It was built to house the collection of Dominique Menil.
	www.arch.school.nz /bbsc303/2000/students/schonephil/menil.html (301 words)

	Menil Foundation, Inc. - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
		The Menil Foundation controls the renowned art collection of the late John and Dominique de Menil.
		The war chest for this impressive collection was funded mainly from stock in Schlumberger, the oil services firm founded by Dominique's father.
		Get more info on Menil Collection with a DandB Report.
	hoovers.com /menil-collection/--ID__117798--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (207 words)

	Architectural Tour of Houston - 2004 Spring Travel
		Most recently, François de Menil (Dominique’s son and a New York–based architect) contributed the Byzantine Fresco Chapel to the complex—a stark, modern shape that houses the only thirteenth-century Byzantine frescoes in the Western Hemisphere.
		In 1980, De Menil gave the architect Renzo Piano his first American commission: a home for her vast art collection.
		The museum is the anchor of a 26-acre park incorporating several world-class architectural sites: Behind the central building and across a quiet street is more Piano—an annex devoted exclusively to the work of Cy Twombly, added in 1995.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/travel/features/situations2004/n_10234 (573 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: MENIL COLLECTION
		Dominique Schlumberger de Menil was born in France in 1908, daughter of Conrad Schlumberger, one of the founders of Schlumberger,
		Menil's desire for a building that was "small on the outside and big on the inside," the architectural firms of Renzo Piano of Genoa, Italy, and Houston-based Richard Fitzgerald and Partners produced an unassuming structure that blends well in style and exterior design with the gray bungalows that surround it.
		While the primary purpose of the Menil Collection is to provide personal access to its works of art, it also participates in the international art community by providing works on loan and exchange and contributes to the advancement of worldwide understanding among peoples of various cultures by supporting publications on art.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/klm6.html (1201 words)

	Art in America: Twombly's tempietto: the Menil Collection, architect Renzo Piano and the artist himself have joined in creating a permanent Cy Twombly installation - Report From Houston
		Paul Winkler, the director of the Menil Collection (named for collectors Dominique and John de Menil), is probably only half kiddding when he says that the name is the outcome of a two-year discussion.
		In this larger view of the collection, the Twombly Gallery is, if not a logical, certainly an understandable development, and one that promises to become integral to visitors' experience of the Menil Collection.
		In 1989, the Menil Collection mounted a Twombly exhibition, combining its own holdings with work borrowed from the Dia Center for the Arts (co-founded by the Menils' daughter, Philippa) and other sources.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n2_v83/ai_16607657 (1276 words)

	Along for the Ride
		The Menil Collection, which opened in 1987, preserves and presents the private art collection of Dominique and John de Menil.
		SEE a slide show of the Menil Museum and some of the works in its famous collection.
		Central to Doville's charm as a mecca for art lovers are the Menil Collection, The Cy Twombly Gallery and the Dan Flavin Installation in Richmond Hall.
	www.npr.org /programs/theride/astorrow/003.html (551 words)

	Artcom Museums Tour: Menil Collection, The, Houston, TX
		The Menil Collection opened in 1987 to house, preserve, and exhibit the art collection of Houston residents John and Dominique de Menil.
		In February 1995, The Menil Collection, in collaboration with the artist Cy Twombly and Dia Center for the Arts, New York, opened the Cy Twombly Gallery, an exhibition space designed by Renzo Piano that houses a permanent installation devoted to Twombly's work.
		Within immediate walking distance of The Menil Collection are two independent institutions of interest to visitors--the Rothko Chapel and Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/mr/77006-47.htm (501 words)

	Nonstarving Artists - JOSEPH BEUYS: ACTIONS, VITRINES, ENVIRONMENTS
		John and Dominique de Menil, who enjoyed a long association with Joseph Beuys, made a major contribution to his 1982 project for Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany, 7000 Oaks, an extension of which was installed on the streets surrounding the former New York City headquarters of the Dia Art Foundation [ck].
		Curated by Mark Rosenthal, the Menil Collection’s Adjunct Curator of Twentieth Century Art, the exhibition explores Beuys’s art primarily in three areas: performance works (in his term, Actions), largely dating to the 1960s; vitrines of the 1970s; and environments, for the most part of the 1980s.
		Thirty-seven works by the artist will be installed at The Menil Collection, including 15 rarely seen vitrine sculptures; DVD projections of Actions; 12 Action objects; and 4 environments.
	www.nonstarvingartists.com /News/ImagedNewsItem.2004-10-11.3059.html (1384 words)

	Luisa Lambri Menil House
		For her project at The Menil Collection, Lambri has been commissioned to photograph Menil House, the home designed by Philip Johnson for John and Dominique de Menil in 1951, as well as The Menil Collection designed by Renzo Piano in 1987.
		Since Lambri initiated what has become a sustained engagement with architecture and photography in 1997, she has endeavored to strike a subtle balance between objectivity and subjectivity, creating interpretations of spaces rather than documents of them, eliciting something minimal, abstract, and nonspecific that is imprinted by memory and desire in the process.
	www.postmedia.net /04/lambrimenil.htm (178 words)

	Menil Collection - Houston, TX, 77006 - Citysearch
		The late John and Dominique de Menil established this quietly stunning museum in 1987 to exhibit their expansive and eclectic collection of fine art.
		Located smack-dab in the middle of the Museum District, the Menil compound also includes the Cy Twombly Gallery, Rothko Chapel, the Menil Collection Bookstore (where you can buy just about any kind of art book you can imagine, posters of past exhibits, funky-cool postcards and toys galore) and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel.
		The museum features a handful of special exhibits each year; recent exhibits include a vibrating living room that you can rearrange yourself; a blinding display of neon art; and an extensive exploration of the friendship and working relationship between Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell, which included such minutiae as 50-year-old Christmas cards.
	houston.citysearch.com /profile/9843531/menil_collection.html?search_location_noncust (428 words)

	Spacetaker Your Houston Cultural Arts Guide
		Dominique de Menil, speaking at the opening of The Menil Collection, 1987
	www.spacetaker.org /org/?org_id=57&view=nonprofits (68 words)

	Antiquities Arts and Entertainment Museums
		Site desc: The Menil Collection, Houston Texas, The Menil Collection opened in 1987 to preserve and exhibit the art collection of John and Dominique de Menil.
		The Cycladic collection is ancient art from the Cyclades Island culture between 3200 and 200 b.c.e.
		Site desc: With a collection of over 800 examples of Greek art and archaeology, the museum has gained international notice for its important collection from the Greek world.
	www.xmeta.com /web/279121/reference/museums/arts-and-entertainment/antiquities (423 words)

	AOL CityGuide: - Houston - Menil Collection The - Gallery
		It was John and Dominique de Menil's personal holdings of 15,000 pieces of art that originally made up the collection, and now the paintings and sculptures make for a serene setting for everything from classical to experimental music.
		One of the Menil Collection's sister buildings, the Cy Twombly Gallery, also hosts concerts and other performances.
		Paintings and sculpture aren't the only arts featured at the Menil Collection museum.
	www.digitalcity.com /houston/entertainment/venue.dci?vid=27411 (351 words)

	Artdaily.com - The First Art Newspaper on the Net
		It is well known that during their lives John and Dominique de Menil assembled one of the world’s finest collections of modern and contemporary art.
		The Menils specially selected paintings and sculptures from this era either because they explored subject matter of a particular, personal interest, especially their studies in Black Iconography, or because the objects displayed a certain aesthetic sensibility that resonates with modernism.
		Curated by Menil director Josef Helfenstein, Old Masters from The Menil Collection, features a selection of approximately 30 paintings, drawings, and prints by Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, and Aelbert Cuyp as well as examples by French and Italian Masters.
	www.artdaily.com /section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=10825 (331 words)

	NGA - Five Surrealists from the Menil Collections (06/1983)
		The pieces were from the collections assembled by Dominique and John de Menil and family, and were chosen and installed by Walter Hopps, director of the planned Menil collection museum in Houston.
		Petit journal: Five Surrealists from the Menil Collections, by Dawn Ades.
		NGA - Five Surrealists from the Menil Collections (06/1983)
	www.nga.gov /past/data/exh497.shtm (100 words)

	visitusa Something for Everyone -- Destination Guides - North America - USA - Texas - Southern Texas and the Gulf Coast - Houston - Museum District and the Rice University area
		The superb works, gathered by oil millionaires John and Dominique de Menil, are displayed in spacious rooms, white-walled and naturally lit.
		Five miles southwest of downtown, the oak-lined, student-thronged boulevards of the Museum and Rice districts are enjoyable to explore on foot, full of interesting exhibition spaces and several good bookstores.
		Pieces range from paleolithic carvings dating from 15,000 BC, and a female idol from the "Mother Goddess" civilization of Catal Huyuk in Turkey, right up to modern sculptures such as Barnett Newman's 1950 Here 1.
	dg.travelnow.com /index.jsp?cid=73836&action=viewLocation&formId=102662 (642 words)

	E-Flux : at The Menil Collection - (2004-04-12)
		The Menil Collection commissioned Lambri to photograph John and Dominique de Menil's Houston residence, a Modernist landmark designed by Philip Johnson in 1951.
		Fourteen photographs of Menil House will be presented along with a selection of other works from the artist's previously unpublished projects, including Richard Neutra's Strathmore Apartments in Los Angeles and Oscar Niemeyer's Casa das Canoasand Banco Boavista in Rio di Janiero and Palacio dos Arcos in Brasilia.
		LUISA LAMBRI: LOCATIONS organized by The Menil Collection's chief curator Matthew Drutt and presented in conjunction with Fotofest 2004-is the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the U.S., presenting 34 of Lambri's photographs.
	www.e-flux.com /displayshow.php?file=message_1081730765.txt (494 words)

	No. 1427: Dominique de Menil
		Dominique de Menil was educated in math and science at the Sorbonne in Paris.
		The benefit dinner which is the subject of this episode took place on Wednesday, March 24, 1999, at the Menil Collection in Houston.
		Another De Menil quote helps answer the question: Wounds to beauty, she writes, are not as innocent as they look.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1427.htm (571 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: MENIL FOUNDATION
		10,000 works collected by Dominique (Schlumberger) and John de Menil.
		It also established a continuing research project on "The Image of the Black in Western Art." Early board members included Menil's son, François, daughter Philippa Pellizzi, Malcolm McCorquodale, Edmund Carpenter, Miles Glaser, and Micky Leland.
		The Menil Foundation, Incorporated, was established in 1954 as a nonprofit charitable corporation to serve as the governing organization for the Menil Collection,
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/vrm4.html (237 words)

	IgoUgo: Houston Attractions, Houston Festivals, Things To Do In Houston
		I think that the Menil is one of Houston’s greatest cultural assets, especially since Dominique de Menil was pressured by a number of leading museums in other cities that were seeking this collection after her death.
		Named after Dominque Menil, one of the greatest art collectors of the 20th century, this building houses an enormous private collection that has to be rotated because it is too large to show at once.
		The collection dates from the Paleolithic era to the 20th century, and primarily concentrates on four areas: antiquity, Byzantine and medieval, tribal, and 20th century.
	www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryActivity.asp?type=2&entryID=40157 (657 words)

	Jacob More
		A multifaceted person, Dominique-Vivant de Non (1747-1825), called Vivant Denon, was one of the key...
		Robert de Montesquiou was entranced by this character who was not unlike h...
		In its endeavour to summarise more than a half-century of human experience within the confin...
	wwar.com /masters/m/more-jacob-news.html (657 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: ROTHKO CHAPEL
		The Rothko Chapel, on Yupon Street and Sul Ross in Houston, was commissioned by Dominique and John de Menil.
		The Rothko Chapel is owned and directed by the Rothko Chapel Board, of which Dominique de Menil is president and Thompson L.
		The Menils commissioned a series of paintings by Mark Rothko, who collaborated with Johnson in the design of the structure.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/RR/klr1.html (556 words)

	TIME: A Brash Builder
		That is the case with Menil, an understated building designed to house the artwork amassed by the collectors Dominique and John de Menil.
		Set in the midst of a museum village created by Dominique de Menil on the outskirts of Houston, Piano's building is the antithesis of the Centre Pompidou.
		Piano first burst onto the international scene in 1977 as the provocative young architect who, with Britain's Richard Rogers, designed the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/1998/int/980504/the_arts.architecture.a_22.html (559 words)

	Advocate
		1908 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate
		1997 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89
		1549 Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/a/advocate.html (319 words)

	Pathé, Gaumont and Seydoux: Pathe
		Marcel moved Schlumberger's headquarters to Houston in 1940, with its Americas and Middle East operations being managed by John de Menil, husband of Conrad's daughter Dominique and co-founder of the noted de Menil art collection.
		Schlumberger was founded as the Société de Prospection Electrique (SPE) by industrialist Paul Schlumberger and sons Conrad and Marcel in 1919.
		SPE commercialised insights that the electrical conductivity of subsurface rock formations would enable accurate mapping and thereby identification of oil, gas and ore deposits, with the first successful wireline log being developed in 1927.
	www.ketupa.net /pathe.htm (319 words)

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