The Menil Collection

Pink, yellow, green, and blue hues alternate among almost 250 fluorescent lamps in the largest of Dan Flavin's three site-specific installations in the Menil Collection's Richmond Hall. The building—formerly a grocery store, a series of bars, and a dance hall—houses Dominique de Menil's final commission.

Visit the Dan Flavin Installation, located at the southernmost edge of the Menil's campus. Admission is always free.

Spend some time with "Middle Passage," 1970, by Frank Bowling, on view in the Menil Collection's modern and contemporary galleries.

As the artist began experimenting with paint, he moved canvases off the easel. "They all start on the floor of my studio," Bowling said, "and I flood the canvas with this thin color." This painting is among the works resulting from this process and features layers of bright paint and stenciled maps and letters.

Screen-printed photographs of Bowling's sons and mother are visible in the work held by the Menil. "I named the painting 'Middle Passage' because I am a product of the middle passage. I do not bring my images together because of the history and brutality of that terrible crossing, but rather in spite of it."