Scope and Contents Rothko Chapel Celebrates 50 Magical Years and an Extensive Renovation With a $650,000 Post Oak Hotel Night An International Art Auction, a Grand Raffle and Houston Sports Stars BY Shelby Hodge // 12.02.21 photography Jenny Antill Clifton 1 17Landscape architect Thomas Woltz, publicist Elizabeth Kubany, Rothko Chapel executive David Leslie & Leigh Leslie at the Rothko Chapel 50th anniversary celebration. (Photo by Jenny Antill Clifton)Little more than a year after...

Scope and Contents ... Songs for Justice: A Series Exploring Music in Social Justice Movements – 2022 Annual MLK Birthday CelebrationWhen: 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 15Where: VirtualDetails: “In 2022, the Rothko Chapel presents Songs for Justice, a series of concerts and conversations exploring the role that music plays to further social justice movements, addressing today’s inequities and injustices… The Rothko Chapel started the annual MLK Birthday Celebration in 1979 to...

Scope and Contents ... The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, held a performance and panel over the weekend (now available to view online for free) focused on the relationship between music and the Civil Rights Movement. The event is part of the institution’s Songs for Justice series, an initiative comprising concerts and conversations that explores how music can advance dialogue around social justice. It features a performance by the Community Music Center of Houston Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra and a...

Scope and Contents ... See + DoAt the Menil Drawing Institute, the three-year-old addition to the prestigious Menil Collection, catch the site-specific wall drawings from Nigerian artist Marcia Kure through August. Nearby, the octagonal Rothko Chapel, featuring canvases by minimalist painter Mark Rothko, reopened in 2020 after a renovation; don’t miss sculptor Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk outside. Let your hair down at Numbers Nightclub, a music and dance institution for more than forty...

Scope and Contents ... Rothko Chapel’s 2022 Martin Luther King Birthday CelebrationThis year, Rothko Chapel presents Songs for Justice, a series of conversations and concerts about the role that music plays in social justice movements. Learn from scholars of music, race and politics on the history and importance that music plays in activism. Celebrate in the comfort of your own home and enjoy the Community Music Center of Houston’s Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra. They will play music paramount to...

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Chris Gray, Houston Chronicle

Article does not mention Rothko Chapel spoecifically. This group performed many of these pieces at the Martin Luther King celebration last month.

Scope and Contents Rothko Chapel: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel in Houston, which is filled with a suite of paintings by the artist Mark Rothko, Tyshawn Sorey has been commisseioned to create a new work inspired by, and played in, the space. Sorey is also looking to the meditative "Rothko Chapel" (1971) by Morton Feldman, who is one of his majkor compositional influences, and will echo its instrumentation - soprano, alto, mixed cchoir, percussion, viola and celesta - in his own...

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Scope and Contents American architecture firm Johnston Marklee has completed a cultural building in Texas, with a white linear form punctured by courtyards.Menil Drawing Institute is the fifth art building to join the Menil Collection's 30-acre (12-hectare) campus in Houston's museum district. Menil Drawing Institute by Johnston MarkleeThe institute showcases modern and contemporary drawings from the private collection of John and Dominique de Menil.Founded in 2008, the...

Scope and Contents Since the grand opening of its Renzo Piano-designed main building in 1987, Houston’s Menil Collection has been described as serene, spiritual, self-effacing. Subsequent enhancements to the Menil campus embodied similar aesthetic qualities: the Cy Twombly Gallery (1995), the Dan Flavin installation in Richmond Hall (1996), and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel (1997).On Saturday, the Menil Drawing Institute, the most significant addition to the Menil campus in decades, will open to the...