Scope and Contents Vieux Interiors Closes With Big Sale, Douglas Elliman Lands in Houston, and More News in TexasHere's what you need to know By Anne Lee Phillips September 12, 2019Texas is full of great designers and makers, and new things are happening every day in the Lone Star State. To help you keep up with all the design news and goings-on in the area, AD PRO is here with what you need to know this week. SalesVieux Interiors Closes With Massive SaleAfter...

Scope and Contents What: MAD and BBVA USA’s exclusive Rothko Chapel eventWhere: MAD HoustonThe scoop: MAD, Houston’s undisputed hottest restaurant, recently closed its doors (shocking!) to host a special event with BBVA USA, benefiting the Rothko Chapel and its $30 million site development master plan for restoration of the chapel and campus expansion.Rothko Chapel’s cultural ambassador and honorary co-chair Lynn Wyatt; MAD founder Ignacio Torras and co-owner, chef Luis...

Scope and Contents In the gallery entrance sits a vending machine selling Cofftea/Kafftee, a coffee-tea hybrid by Albert Oehlen that apparently 'won’t let you sleep ever again'. That might sound like a bold claim, until you look at the paintings, drawings and collages filling the exhibition space.All painted in the last 30 years, the artworks are a manic, sprawling cacophony of shape, colour, line and vaguely-emerging images. They look precisely like the result of mainlining cold brew after...

Scope and Contents A group of human rights leaders, students and self-proclaimed prison abolitionists deliberated the abolition of the United States prison system as a part of a lecture series Thursday night. In the keynote lecture, presented by the Rothko Chapel and Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, activist and public scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore spoke on prison abolition and how it relates to the fight for basic human rights. Rapoport Center founder Karen Engle said around 400 people...

Scope and Contents Born in Dvinsk, Latvia, and raised in Portland, Ore., Markus Rothkowitz made his name as the artist Mark Rothko in New York in the mid-20th century. Yet Houston plays a formidable role in writer-director Eric Slade’s film “Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous,” part of PBS’ American Masters series. His canvases commissioned for a Montrose chapel that bears his name are framed in the film as the culmination of a creative evolution.The delicate layering of paint in Rothko’s work is...

Scope and Contents LONDON — Over every German painter of the postwar era, there has hung, like some filthy, impermeable cloud, the moral dereliction of the Third Reich.Where to go from here? How to pick up the shattered pieces? How even to begin to believe that art could be permissible again as an authentic representation of the human condition after a second-rate amateur painter called Adolf Hitler had herded so many millions into the gas chambers?Anselm Kiefer’s response has been to...

Scope and Contents New Documentary On Abstract Expressionist Painter Mark Rothko To Debut On PBS Tonight Jane Levere Jane Levere Contributor LifestyleA new documentary on Mark Rothko, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, will debut tonight on PBS’ American Masters. His signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism, the movement that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous, an intimate portrait of the...

Scope and Contents Architects and engineers have battled daylight in Houston’s Rothko Chapel from the moment it opened in 1971, trying to protect and illuminate the 14 monumental paintings the space was built to showcase.They did not know until recently that the world-famous art and spiritual sanctuary was also susceptible to a potentially more dangerous issue: wind.That problem surfaced this summer, adding four months and $1.1 million to a renovation project that has shuttered the...

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...