Kahn's building helped to change that, as did two buildings Renzo Piano designed for the Menil Collection in 1986 and 1995.

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Uriel Landeros, 22, was charged with felony graffiti and criminal mischief for spray painting the artwork at the Menil Collection in Houston.

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Mr Beyeler's decided he wanted Mr Piano after a visit to the gallery the architect designed for the Menil Collection in Houston.

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In 1968, a year after he finished his legendary series of black murals for his eponymous chapel at the Menil Collection in Houston and just a few months after suffering an aneurysm that nearly killed him, Mark Rothko turned to painting smaller pictures in acrylic on paper laid down on canvas.

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