Scope and Contents What Size Do You Like Your Art? Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles Through September 11thWritten by Lorraine HeitzmanJust as there is something delightful about miniatures, so is there a particular delight in the inverse phenomena of things transformed beyond their usual size. When Alice shrinks and grows in Alice in Wonderland, it is amusing to see the world changed in such a simple and fundamental way. Claes Oldenburg understood the power of this ploy when he made...

Scope and Contents It’s been 19 months since the Rothko Chapel was last open to the public.Counted among Houston’s iconic landmarks, the chapel closed in March 2019 for extensive renovations and reopened Thursday. It now boasts new landscaping, a new lighting system, the addition of the Suzanne Deal Booth Welcome House where the chapel’s retail selection now lives, and a timed ticketing system to avoid crowding during the COVID-19 pandemic.The reopening faced delays, first related to...

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Collected because it documents some of the relationship between Rice and the de Menils.

Scope and Contents Albert Oehlen is a German artist whose work is a constant study of the nature of painting. A major contemporary artist since the 1980s, Oehlen paints with certain rules, or self-imposed limitations, to deconstruct the medium to its essentail elements — color, gesture, motion and time. The artist has a large-scale installation now on view at the Gagosian Los Angeles, entitled Tramonto Spaventoso (2019-20).The work is in one part a response to the Rothko Chapel in Houston and...

Scope and Contents Event DetailsSat, Feb 27, 2021 at 6:00 PMRothko Chapel, 3900 Yupon Street, Houston, TX, 77006 More info: https://rothkochapel.org/experience/events/register/2133Published by Rizzoli Electa, this beautiful new large-format volume provides photographic testimony along with the insights of scholars who give an intimate look into this sacred space, where visitors seek solace and inspiration. Commemorating the first monograph on Rothko Chapel in more than 20...

Scope and Contents Thursday, March 11, 2021 | 6:00 pm In honor of Mark Rothko’s Latvian heritage, Rothko Chapel hosts Latvian jazz ensemble the Māris Briežkalns Quintet, one of the leading acoustic mainstream bands on the Latvian jazz scene.The quintet commissioned ten Latvian composers to each create an original jazz composition. Each composition is created to illustrate the moods and atmosphere evoked by an iconic Rothko painting selected by the composer. About Maris...

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Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration at Moody Center for the Arts | Tuesday, February 16, 2021 | FREE – In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel, this exhibition highlights the impact the Chapel has had on both artists and the public since opening in 1971. Featured artists include Brice Marden, David Novros, Sam Gilliam, Sheila Hicks, Shirazeh Houshiary and Byron Kim.

Scope and Contents When you walk through the doors of the Rothko Chapel, you’re hit with a sense that you’re someplace other. For five decades now, the nondenominational sanctuary, famously named for the acclaimed late artist Mark Rothko, who created the art and helped design the space, has stood in opposition in of the bustling and growing Museum District neighborhood, forcing visitors to sit and reflect. And that’s the point, says Rothko’s son, Christopher, who sits on the chapel’s board of directors....

Scope and Contents The light-dappled peace of the Rothko Chapel, a non-demonitional sanctuary in Houston, resonates today as it did 50 years ago upon opening—if not more so. From Feb. 26-28, 2021, the Rothko Chapel's golden anniversary will be commemorated with a number of virtual programs. The first phase of its $30 million restoration, completed late last year, finally features a huge skylight that illuminates large-scale paintings, as originally intended. Mark Rothko’s 14 subtly-variegated,...

Scope and Contents This weekend marks 50 years since John and Dominique de Menil unveiled the Rothko Chapel to the public as a sacred space for art, performance and contemplation.To mark the anniversary, Rothko Chapel will stage a virtual program of events from Friday, February 26 through Sunday, February 28 2021, ranging from conversations and performances to virtual screenings. Photography: Paul HesterRothko Chapel recently emerged from an 18-month-long renovation, which saw the...