Scope and Contents CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A local trailblazer in civil rights died over the weekend after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold died six days shy of her 95 birthday, according to family.Sissy was born in Corpus Christi in 1926 and spent her life working for equal rights and social justice. Researchers have created holograms of people with a sense of touch featured byIn 1968, Sissy was elected as the only woman in the...

Scope and Contents HOUSTON – Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, a Texas trailblazer in civil rights, died at the age of 94 on Sunday after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.Sissy was born in Corpus Christi in 1926 and spent her life working for equal rights and social justice.She was one of the first female Texas State Representatives, a candidate for governor, wife and mother of five, and a champion of equal rights for everyone. And that list only scratches the surface....

Scope and Contents ‘So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.’ T.S. Eliot, The Four QuartetsIn Lyrical Landscapes, HOTA’S recent exhibition of William Robinson’s grand, panoramic landscapes full of somersaulting and aerial perspectives, there are numerous allusions to dawn, dusk, day and night. In Nocturne, we have the chance to look closely at the special ways this artist explores the hours between dusk and dawn, and the way in which he folds and refolds physical...

Scope and Contents ... "Anderson also found inspiration during his formative years at Houston’s Rothko Chapel. Named after Russian-born abstract painter Mark Rothko and again founded by John and Dominique de Ménil, the space serves as a non-denominational cathedral as well as a work of modern art. Anderson remembers being particularly transfixed about 30 years ago by an exhibition that encompassed all of Rothko’s career. “Only in seeing the entire course of his work did I sort of get it,” Anderson...

Scope and Contents Just west of the Rothko Chapel in Montrose, there are two gray bungalows with white trim up for grabs. They’re not for sale, per se — not yet anyway. Though David Leslie, executive director of Rothko Chapel, admits that both structures have already generated significant interest.He prefers not to elaborate on the future of those bungalows. They currently house the Rothko Chapel’s staff and offices. Their future home, an administration and archives building on the north side of...

Scope and Contents In keeping with its mission as a destination for one of the 20th century’s most compelling suites of painting, the Rothko Chapel’s 50th Anniversary Gala — titled Illumination and set for this Saturday, November 6 — will offer an art auction of rare importance, via Artsy.Note: Collectors do not need to attend the gala to register and bid on the auction.Curated by doyenne Barbara Davis of Art Basel Miami Beach-exhibited Barbara Davis Gallery, the auction features 20...

Scope and Contents ... Repurposing pieces of Rothko ChapelUpon completion, Rothko Chapel’s $32 million Opening Spaces capital campaign and master plan will eventually include a program center, energy facilities, landscape and drainage infrastructure and a guesthouse for artists or scholars-in-residence. The Welcome House, another new addition, is already complete and open for business. As is the recently restored chapel, now enhanced by a reimagined skylight, lighting design and entryway....

Scope and Contents DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, announces the world premiere of American composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey's Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) on Saturday, February 19 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, February 20 at 3 p.m.DACAMERA and the Rothko Chapel commissioned Sorey to create a new work in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the iconic art space. With the unique ability to experience colors sonically (i.e. synesthesia), Sorey...

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Article does not mention Rothko Chapel, but does describe Tutu's importance and work. Desmond Tutu visited the chapel.

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Article does not mention Rothko Chapel, but does describe Tutu's importance and work. Desmond Tutu visited the chapel.