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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
Mark Rothko: a Response in Verse, 2014-05-21
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 974
Identifier: 80.6.974
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Nicole Brossard. Throughout the years, visitors have responded to the silent power of Mark Rothko’s work, and particularly the Rothko Chapel, by composing poems. Acclaimed Canadian avant-garde poet and novelist Nicole Brossard debuts a poem inspired by her intense admiration and affection for Rothko’s work. She also reads from her latest collection of poems in English. Brossard has published more than 30 books, including Nicole Brossard: Selections (2010, translated by Jennifer Moxley) and...
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Event: 2014-05-21
Clarity and Compassion: Lessons from a Zen Garden, 2014-06-29
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 975
Identifier: 80.6.975
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Karen Maezen Miller. How can we access the spiritual in everyday life? Author and Zen Buddhist teacher Karen Maezen Miller shares the wisdom she has gleaned from our natural world, ending with a seated meditation. A former Houstonian, Miller is a priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles and the author of several books on finding spirituality in ordinary places. Her most recent is Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden about the lessons of clarity and compassion found in...
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Event: 2014-06-29
Oscar Romero Award 2003 : Interviews, 2003
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 976
Identifier: 80.6.976
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2003