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Mark Rothko: The Houston Connection, 2014-05-06
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 964
Identifier: 80.6.964
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How did John and Dominique de Menil come to commission Mark Rothko to create his masterpiece, the Rothko Chapel, in Houston? Art historian Chelby King discusses Houston art professor Jermayne McAgy’s influence on the de Menil’s commission and her connection to Rothko. Chelby King was awarded a M.A. in art history from the University of Houston in May 2013 following a fifteen-year career in arts management. Her organizational work has focused on advancing opportunities for contemporary...
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Event: 2014-05-06
A Night of Arab Poetry and Oud Music, 2014-04-16
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 965
Identifier: 80.6.965
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Fady Joudah, Poet and Rahim AlHaj, Oud Musician. In collaboration with FotoFest and the Arab American Cultural and Community Center, celebrated poet Fady Joudah and renowned musician Rahim AlHaj present an evening of Arab poetry and oud music. Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet and physician. Joudah's poetry has been published in a variety of publications, including Poetry Magazine, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner, and Crab Orchard Review. He is the 2007...
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Event: 2014-04-16
Mark Rothko: Seeing in the Dark (edited), 2014-04-29
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 966
Identifier: 80.6.966
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Harry Cooper, PhD. What is the significance of Rothko’s turn to dark, expansive paintings in the 1960s? Do they realize or deny what Rothko called the “inner light” of his art? What was the different role of darkness throughout his previous work? Did Rothko intend to imbue colors like those used in the Rothko Chapel with particular meaning? Looking at both the Chapel works and related single canvases at the National Gallery of Art, Modern Art Curator Harry Cooper, Ph.D. explores these and...
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Event: 2014-04-29
Mark Rothko: A Musical Response, 2014-04-11
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 967
Identifier: 80.6.967
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Haskell Small. Mark Rothko’s work, including the Rothko Chapel, has inspired numerous responses in prose, poetry, movement, and music. Noted pianist Haskell Small performs his piece The Rothko Room: Journeys in Silence, which was inspired by the Rothko Room in the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. Additionally, the concert includes pieces inspired by the spiritual power of mountains by Alan Hovhaness. Small is an accomplished composer and pianist, and has performed with great success in...
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Event: 2014-04-11
From Auschwitz to the International Court of Justice, 2014-04-27
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 968
Identifier: 80.6.968
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Judge Thomas Buergenthal. In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Judge Thomas Buergenthal shares his inspiring personal journey from a prisoner in Auschwitz to a judge championing human rights on the International Court of Justice. Judge Buergenthal served as the American judge on the International Court of Justice from 2000 until 2010. Prior to the ICJ, he was a judge and president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and served as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee and of...
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Event: 2014-04-27
Sound Observations at the Rothko Chapel, 2014-04-24
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 969
Identifier: 80.6.969
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Charles Curtis and the Nameless Sound Ensemble, Presented in Partnership with Nameless Sound. Nameless Sound and the Rothko Chapel unites to present a performance by renowned experimental and minimalist cellist Charles Curtis. Curtis performs French electronic music composer Éliane Radigue’s Naldjorlak I (2004), a piece perfectly suited to the meditative, sacred space of the Chapel. After a decade’s-long career creating electronic music for synthesizers, Naldjorlak I was the veteran...
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Event: 2014-04-24
Dismantling Hurtful Worldviews on Earth Day, 2014-04-22
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 970
Identifier: 80.6.970
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Anne McClintock, PhD. What can feminism teach us about alternative ways to approach the environment? Ecofeminism envisions feminism and ecology as interconnected, arguing that the worldview that causes environmental degradation is the same that causes inequality for women. On Earth Day, Anne McClintock, Ph.D. discusses what ecofeminism can teach us, and how it can change the way we treat the Earth. Dr. McClintock is a writer, feminist scholar and public intellectual who has published widely...
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Event: 2014-04-22
Poetry for Peace, 2014-05-13
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 971
Identifier: 80.6.971
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Naomi Shihab Nye and Chana Bloch. To commemorate Israeli Independence Day and Palestinian Nakba Day, Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye and Jewish-American poet Chana Bloch read from their poetry and translations. Both poets draw upon their heritage in their work, yet see peace as essential. Naomi Shihab Nye is the author of numerous books of poems, including You and Yours, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, Fuel, and Red Suitcase. She has been a Lannan Fellow, a...
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Event: 2014-05-13
Art Attack with Lee Sandstead: Mark Rothko’s White Center, 2008-12-21
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 972
Identifier: 80.6.972
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Atlas Media
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2008-12-21
The Rothko Chapel, 1971
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 973
Identifier: 80.6.973
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1971