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An “artist’s curator,” David Whitney was a champion of art and artists. His dedication to works on paper exemplifies a commitment to artists. Select pieces from the Whitney bequest are on view in the exhibition The Beginning of Everything: Drawings from the Janie C. Lee, Louise Stude Sarofim, and David Whitney Collections, open through June 18th.

The first freestanding facility built expressly for the exhibition, study, conservation, and storage of modern and contemporary drawings, the Menil Drawing Institute will open with an ambitious schedule of inaugural exhibitions including the work of Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, and Roni Horn.

The visual culture of the Dogon peoples of Mali is one of the most studied, collected, and mythologized from the African continent. This multi-voiced, multimedia exploration of Dogon artistic practices and the 20th-century European and American collecting reveals an often surprising history of interaction.

Dedicated in 1971, Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk stands in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the reflecting pool of the Rothko Chapel. The time lapse video documents the sculpture’s installation in January 2017 upon its return to Houston following a 10-month treatment.