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Rebecca Rabinow Appointed Director of The Menil Collection in Houston

institutional · 2026-04-20

Rebecca Rabinow will become the new director of The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, starting July 2016. She succeeds Josef Helfenstein in leading the institution. Currently serving as the Leonard A. Lauder curator of modern art at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rabinow has held her position there since 1990. Her recent curatorial projects include the internationally touring exhibition 'The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde' in 2012. She also organized 'Matisse, In Search of True Painting' from 2012 to 2013 and 'Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection' between 2014 and 2015.

Key facts

  • Rebecca Rabinow appointed as new director of The Menil Collection
  • She will take over from Josef Helfenstein
  • Appointment effective July 2016
  • Rabinow is currently Leonard A. Lauder curator of modern art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • She has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1990
  • She curated 'Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection' (2014–15)
  • She curated 'Matisse, In Search of True Painting' (2012–13)
  • She curated 'The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde' (2012), which toured internationally

Entities

Artists

  • Henri Matisse
  • Pablo Picasso

Institutions

  • The Menil Collection
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Locations

  • Houston
  • Texas
  • United States
  • New York
  • Paris

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