The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, is a museum housing a private collection of art assembled over the last half-century. This updated edition of a book first published in 1987 marks the tenth anniversary of the museum's opening. It features colour reproductions of European, Mediterranean and Near Eastern antiquities, Byzantine art, and significant Cubist, Surrealist, Abstract, Expressionist and contemporary works. Three essays have been added to the original texts on major aspects of the collection by art historians, curators, anthropologists, poets and writers.