Scope and Contents Houston art dealer Hiram Butler's quest fuels Ellsworth Kelly's 'Austin' chapel New masterpiece latest in a series by leading artistsBy Molly Glentzer February 23, 2018 Updated: February 25, 2018 12:56pm 0 The array of 12 stained-glass windows in the west facade of Ellsworth Kelly's "Austin" conveys the artist's lifelong fascination with the spectrum of color. Photo: Molly GlentzerPhoto: Molly Glentzer Image 1 of 19 The array of 12...

Scope and Contents The Kabbalah of RothkoIn the gap between transcendental and concrete experience, 48 years after the painter’s death By Jeremy SiglerTablet Fiction and Essays Me, U, Baku, QubaHow a tiny enclave of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan produced some of the former Soviet world’s richest men By Joshua Cohen July 23, 2018 • 12:00 AM Facebook Twitter Pinterest Google Plus To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. —Theodor W....

Scope and Contents How Austin Became the Home, and Namesake, of Ellsworth Kelly’s Final Masterpiece The chapel Kelly believed would never be built now sits on the campus of the University of Texas, a project $23 million and 20 years in the making. by Nate FreemanFebruary 23, 2018 5:08 pm From ©Ellsworth Kelly Foundation/Courtesy Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin.For decades, a model for a chapel sat in the Spencertown, New York, studio of Ellsworth...

Scope and Contents The Artist Ellsworth Kelly's New $23-Million Chapel Is Bringing Some Atheism to Texas by Stephanie Eckardt February 24, 2018 4:18 pmInside "Austin" by Ellsworth Kelly. Courtesy of @sothebysinstituteIt's been more than two years since Ellsworth Kelly, one of the biggest abstract artists of the 20th century, died at age 92. Still, that hasn't stopped Kelly from continuing his legacy into the 21st—the late artist is in fact responsible for the new igloo-like space that...

Scope and Contents Monument Quilt Blankets Rothko Chapel for International Women's Day Natalie de la Garza | March 1, 2018 | 7:17am Facebook 40 Twitter email Print ArticleAANot long after activist group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture tricked the internet into believing that Victoria's Secret was debuting a "Pink Loves Consent" line of panties, the Rothko Chapel’s future director of programs and community engagement, Ashley Clemmer, toured their Baltimore...

Scope and Contents The Ellsworth Kelly Artwork That’s Putting Austin on the Map By Juliet Helmke • 03/01/18 8:00am Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas Blanton MuseumBlanton Museum director Simone Wicha wouldn’t necessarily attribute the design of the emergency exit door in their new structure to Ellsworth Kelly. But, she says, you could almost consider the exit to be the work of the artist. He certainly had the final word on how this, and every other...

Scope and Contents Violist’s career forever linked to MLK Susan Saccoccia Susan Saccoccia Violist’s career forever linked to MLK Marcus Thompson (Photo: Christian Steinert)One of only a few African Americans to find success in classical music, violist Marcus Thompson has garnered critical acclaim since the start of his illustrious career. The South Bronx native earned the Juilliard School’s first-ever doctorate in viola performance, and in 1968, he performed in Carnegie Hall as winner of the...

Scope and Contents The High Society Love Story Behind Dominique and John De Menil's Legendary Art Collection by William Middleton March 7, 2018 4:20 pm Photographer: Tim Walker Styled: Jacob KThe sweltering summer afternoon of June 4, 1987, was the official opening of the Menil Collection, in Houston, and 79-year-old Dominique de Menil stood in front of her new museum. The building, the first in the United States designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, was a bold, graceful two-story...

Scope and Contents How the De Menil Family Raised Good Taste to an Art FormThrough their collection, their Houston home, and the museum they founded, Dominique and Jean de Menil became a singular cultural force in the 20th century. By William Middleton Mar 7, 2018 Getty In the spring of 1933, the 25-year-old Dominique de Menil sat in the salon of her Paris apartment in the Faubourg St. Germain. It had been two years since Dominique Schlum­berger, to use her nom de jeune fille, had...