Scope and Contents Thursday, July 22Rothko Chapel presents Our Moral Obligation: Ensuring the Dignity of All Rothko Chapel will present its first virtual lecture in their Beyond the Rhetoric: Civil Rights & Our Shared Responsibility summer lecture series, featuring the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president and senior lecturer for Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign. In this virtual conversation, Barber will address his perspectives on civil rights in the United...

Scope and Contents What happens when a virtouso painter steeped in art history and aesthetic philosophy rejects virtuosity as too easy and challenges himself to make the worst paintings he can?This is the fascinating trajectory of enfant terrible, Albert Oehlen. Today he is one of the most respected artists in the world, and yet he first came to fame in the late 1980s by making deliberately bad paintings, particularly a tender portrait of Adolf Hitler, as a result of a dare with his “bad boys”...

Scope and Contents The halls will soon be alive with the sound of music. That’s because Da Camera is making its return to in-person concerts, with a slate of chamber and jazz concerts that will have music lovers’ hearts soaring. “We are immensely grateful to all our loyal supporters over the past year whose generosity allows us to return to live music in a position of strength, and with a renewed commitment to excellence and diversity,” Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg said in a statement. “Da...

Scope and Contents The top rated Art Galleries in Houston, TX are: Space Montrose – brings handcrafted goods from around the USA to make them more accessible to the local community of Houston Rothko Chapel – a sacred art space for the local community to create opportunities for spiritual growth and shared humanity Flying Squid Art Gallery & Tattooing – a unique multi-faceted art gallery and tattoo shop Asia Society Texas Center – passionately serving to promote the mutual...

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Rothko Chapel Gets $3 Million From WordPress Founder – Matt Mullenweg, a Houston native and web developer behind WordPress (the platform used by this very news site!), has donated $3 million to help fund the restoration of the Rothko Chapel. The meditation garden will be named in honor of his parents, while the Birch Grove will be named for his sister. (Press release)

Scope and Contents What Size Do You Like Your Art? Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles Through September 11thWritten by Lorraine HeitzmanJust as there is something delightful about miniatures, so is there a particular delight in the inverse phenomena of things transformed beyond their usual size. When Alice shrinks and grows in Alice in Wonderland, it is amusing to see the world changed in such a simple and fundamental way. Claes Oldenburg understood the power of this ploy when he made...

Scope and Contents It’s been 19 months since the Rothko Chapel was last open to the public.Counted among Houston’s iconic landmarks, the chapel closed in March 2019 for extensive renovations and reopened Thursday. It now boasts new landscaping, a new lighting system, the addition of the Suzanne Deal Booth Welcome House where the chapel’s retail selection now lives, and a timed ticketing system to avoid crowding during the COVID-19 pandemic.The reopening faced delays, first related to...

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Collected because it documents some of the relationship between Rice and the de Menils.

Scope and Contents Albert Oehlen is a German artist whose work is a constant study of the nature of painting. A major contemporary artist since the 1980s, Oehlen paints with certain rules, or self-imposed limitations, to deconstruct the medium to its essentail elements — color, gesture, motion and time. The artist has a large-scale installation now on view at the Gagosian Los Angeles, entitled Tramonto Spaventoso (2019-20).The work is in one part a response to the Rothko Chapel in Houston and...