Scope and Contents The Rothko Chapel received a $2 million grant from Houston Endowment for the restoration and expansion project underway at the chapel campus in Montrose.Having raised over $12.5 million, the Rothko Chapel is approaching its fundraising goal for Phase 1 of the Opening Spaces campaign, the $30 million capital campaign supporting the multiyear campus master plan, according to a July 15 press release. Houston Endowment’s $2 million grant is the second-largest institutional grant the...

Scope and Contents The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, which was founded by philanthropists Dominique and John de Menil and built in 1971, has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Houston Endowment in support of the restoration of the landmark and the expansion of its campus. To date, more than $12.5 million has been raised as part of the capital campaign Opening Spaces, which was launched to better help the chapel fulfill its mission.Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the...

Scope and Contents The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded a total of $3.81 million in grants for its spring 2019 season, announcing the 41 recipients this week. The recipients range from small arts institutions to major museums, each receiving between $60,000 and $120,000. Ten single exhibitions by artists who were deemed experimental or underrecognized won grant support, while 31 institutions were awarded program support. ArtForum has the full list.Spain’s Museo Nacional del...

Scope and Contents La Rothko Chapel fu ideata nel 1971 dai grandi mecenati e collezionisti John e Dominique de Menil. All’interno ci sono 14 straordinari dipinti del grade artista È una cappella, ma è per costituzione aconfessionale, ecumenica, un luogo sacro aperto a tutte le religioni. Si trova a Houston, in Texas, e a idearla furono nel 1971 i grandi mecenati e collezionisti John e Dominique de Menil. Che ne affidarono l’ideazione al grandissimo artista Mark Rothko, autore dei 14 straordinari dipinti che ci...

Scope and Contents Solange Knowles — singer, songwriter, polymath musician — came to Houston Wednesday night. In her own abstract, artistic way, that is.The musical force of nature debuted the extended director’s cut of her experimental, interdisciplinary film, When I Get Home, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in two separate, back-to-back screenings for a one-night-only event.Solange lit up the screen, shimmying in crystallized fringe, dancing against the backdrop of The Rothko...

Scope and Contents Newswire – July 22, 2019. Wood Partners, the 2nd-largest multifamily developer and 3rd-largest multifamily construction manager in the nation according to the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), announced earlier today the groundbreaking of its newest luxury residential midrise community – Alta River Oaks – in the highly affluent River Oaks area of Houston, Texas.Perfectly positioned at 3636 W Dallas St., the new Alta River Oaks sits amid the best addresses, with ideal...

Scope and Contents In 2007, the Rothko Chapel presented its Óscar Romero Award to two volunteers from No More Deaths for their efforts to help migrants who were dying in the Arizona desert. The award, named after Saint Archbishop Óscar Romero of San Salvador, recognizes grassroots human rights activists who address injustices around the world. More than a decade later, the group’s volunteers continue their crucial work at the risk of being prosecuted for felonies.No More Deaths, a ministry of the...

Scope and Contents 2of3Nine-year-old Sara Strawn plays on a swing at the park across from the Menil on the first day of spring in Houston.Photo: Michael Paulsen, Staff / Houston Chronicle 3of3Menil Park provides a perfect space to take advantage of Houston’s sunny afternoons for yoga or letting dogs off the leash.Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerI knew I was going to move into the first neighborhood in Houston that I visited: Montrose. To be clear, this is no sign of my...

Scope and Contents Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface. —Donald JuddI have made a place. —Mark RothkoArchitects often say that the best clients are those who are most collaborative, but what if your client died decades ago? I think of our restorations of 101 Spring Street, Donald Judd’s home in New York City, and the Rothko Chapel in Houston as case studies in posthumous collaboration. At these remarkable sites, Judd and Rothko expanded...

Scope and Contents Solange Knowles is no mere musician that produces work for commercial appeal. Her output—a blend of funk, pop, and R&B—is a creative release that she, and many others, deem as performance art. So much so that she presents her albums and videos in fine art institutions, eschewing the boisterous clubs and theaters that are de rigueur for most releases.Knowles first put this into practice with A Seat at the Table, her 2016 album that she promoted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim...