Louis Kahn | 1901–1974 • United States 🇺🇸 Kahn redefined the modern museum through timeless form, structural clarity, and the poetic use of natural light. His museums established architecture as a silent framework for art, balancing monumentality and intimacy while setting enduring standards for daylight, proportion, and material expression. Frank Gehry | 1929–2025 • United States 🇺🇸 Gehry transformed the museum into an urban spectacle, using sculptural form to reposition cultural institutio

The Menil recently reinstalled the African art galleries, including a display dedicated to the representation of women in sculpture that features a figural veranda post from the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria. This object depicts a priestess or queen mother presenting two smaller figures, possibly twins, who carry offerings of a covered bowl and an animal. She carries another child in a wrapper on her back. Naturalistic or abstract, sculptural representations of women are one of the most common subje

The Menil’s foyer installation pairs the work of Mildred Thompson and Takis, two artists who were fascinated by the intersection of art and science. The spindly, swaying, antenna-like works from Takis’s Signal series of the 1950s were inspired by radio and radar technologies. Like Thompson, Takis repeatedly explored themes of magnetism and the cosmos in his work. 💫 Discover our new display and plan your visit at menil.org/visit. | The Menil Collection