The Houston, Texas, man accused of spray -painting Pablo Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair (1929) at the Menil Collection has said that he never intended to harm the painting. Read More
Houston’s Menil Collection announced today that its 2012 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement will go to the Mexico City–based curator Cuauhtémoc Medina, who earlier this year organized the generally well-received Manifesta 9 in Genk, Belgium. Mr. Medina will receive a $15,000 stipend for winning, and join a list of former Hopps winners that includes Eungie Joo, Maria Lind and Adam Szymczyk. Read More
A video of a young man shown vandalizing Pablo Picasso’s painting Woman in a Red Armchair at the Menil Collection surfaced on YouTube recently and is making the rounds. The video captures the vandal in flagrante delicto by an amateur cellphone videographer as the vandal was stenciling an image of a bullfighter killing a bull, and the word “Conquista.” Read More
Michelle White, who helped organize the Richard Serra drawing retrospective, which recently graced the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been promoted from associate curator to curator at the Menil Collection. Read More
The Artists Documentation Program, a branch of the Menil Collection, has opened the doors on its impressive collection of artist interviews and placed the whole archive online. Previously only available to curators and art historians, the online project was funded in association with the Whitney and the Harvard Art Museums’ Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art. Read More
