Scope and Contents During the first phase of a $30 million construction project to restore the Rothko Chapel and expand its campus in Houston, engineers made a discovery that will add four months and $1.1 million to the rehabilitation of the 1971 structure, which is home to 14 monumental paintings by Mark Rothko.The Chapel’s concrete masonry walls, which stand some 25 feet tall, were originally built without steel reinforcement—an acceptable practice in the 1970s, when Philip Johnson, Howard...

Scope and Contents Video (4:17)HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Montrose is Houston's most colorful and off-beat neighborhood, but it hasn't always been that way.Today you can stop by the Rothko Chapel or get a drink in the backyard of Poison Girl, followed up by a tattoo.It was a much different story in the 1960s.Thanks to newly restored film from the ABC13 vault, you can take a drive down Montrose Blvd, circa 1965.The film shows some of the signature...

Scope and Contents My first impression of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” the new film by Richard Linklater that opens Friday, was that it was a rare film by the Houston native that wasn’t defined by time.So often in Linklater’s films, time is part of the story’s frame, with sorts of deadlines as in his three “Before” films: “Before Sunrise,” “Before Sunset,” “Before Midnight.” And then there’s “Boyhood,” which he shot for parts of 12 years. Even his baseball movie, “Everybody Wants Some!!,” and his...

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Discussion of political drama "The Report"; the movie discusses the use of torture by the US government. This oped by chapel director David Leslie highlights personal testimonies of torture related as part of chapel programming.

Scope and Contents 2020 AIA HONOR AWARDS Architecture Research Office Wins 2020 AIA Architecture Firm Award The New York firm is the 57th recipient of the annual award. By Katharine KeaneToday, The American Institute of Architects announced that New York–based Architecture Research Office has been awarded the 2020 Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor that the Institute awards to architecture practices recognizing, "a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least...

Scope and Contents Eclectic artist, activist Gertrude Barnstone dies at 94 Photo of Jacob Carpenter Jacob Carpenter Dec. 27, 2019 Comments 8 In this 1991 file photo, Gertrude Barnstone works on a metal sculpture. Barnstone, a renowned Houston artist and champion of civil rights causes, died Monday at the age of 94. 1of8In this 1991 file photo, Gertrude Barnstone works on a metal sculpture. Barnstone, a renowned Houston artist and champion of civil rights causes, died Monday at the age of 94. In this 1965...

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Article including poem witten by Pastor Jeremy Rutledge following Hurricane Harvey.

Scope and Contents The Rothko Chapel will reopen in Houston this June after a 14-month restoration project by Architecture Research Office that is part of a wider $30m (€28m, £23m) masterplan project the studio is carrying out.Opened in 1971, the chapel was created as a place for interfaith worship and contemplation by its founders – artist Mark Rothko and John and Dominique de Menil – and has 14 huge Rothko canvases on display.The Opening Spaces masterplan was conceived to allow the...

Scope and Contents Art Industry News: Meet the American Banker Who Just Bought Banksy’s $1.6 Million Brexit-Themed Work at Sotheby’s + Other StoriesPlus, MoMA acquires an important trove of Gordon Parks photographs and police question the widow of a gallery owner in the case of a stolen Klimt.Artnet News, February 12, 2020 Banksy, Vote to Love (2018). Courtesy of Sotheby's Images Ltd. Banksy, Vote to Love (2018). Courtesy of Sotheby's Images Ltd.Art Industry News is a daily...