Installation/renovation/conservation
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
A Conversation about Barnett Newman , 2011-09-24
File — Shelf 30, Box: 93, Folder: 25
Identifier: 30.93.25
Abstract
With Carol Mancusi-UngaroCarol Mancusi-Ungaro, co-author of the 2004 Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, will address issues pertaining to the history, presence, and preservation of Newman’s Broken Obelisk. Installed on the plaza of the Rothko Chapel in 1970, the sculpture embraces the ethos of the Chapel while embodying the cultural development of Houston. Barnett Newman (1905-1970), best known as a painter, is indelibly linked with the Rothko Chapel as the...
Dates:
Event: 2011-09-24
Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration , 2017-01-15
File — Shelf 31, Box: 97, Folder: 14
Identifier: 31.97.14
Abstract
5pm: Reception on the Plaza
5:30pm: Ceremony welcoming the return of Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk
6pm: Reception continues
7pm: The Fierce Urgency of Now, a lecture by Leonard Pitts, Jr.In honor of the life and work of the Rev. Dr. King, our Annual Celebration began with a ceremony on the plaza to welcome the return of the Broken Obelisk by Barnett Newman after a year away for conservation. The event included words by Rev. Dr. Marcus Cosby, Wheeler Baptist Church Senior...
Dates:
Event: 2017-01-15
Chapel pre-post renovation
File — Drawer 90, Folder: 42
Identifier: 90.42
Chapel Renovation
File — Drawer 89, Folder: 19
Identifier: 89.19
Abstract
Photos of the chapel renovation, including removal of the paintings
Dates:
1971
Conservation work on Chapel Paintings , 1981-06 - 1981-08
File — Drawer 85, Folder: 14
Identifier: 85.14
Dates:
1981-06 - 1981-08
Dedication and Public Opening of the Rothko Chapel, 1971-02-26 - 1971-02-28
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 26.78.04
Abstract
Dedication of the chapel on Feb 26/27, dedication of the Broken Obelisk on Feb 28
Dates:
Event: 1971-02-26 - 1971-02-28
Fifty Year Celebration, 2021-02-26 - 2021-02-28
File — Shelf 30, Box: 218, Folder: 20
Identifier: 30.218.20
Scope and Contents
Includes mailer cards describing the weekend events
Dates:
Event: 2021-02-26 - 2021-02-28
Installation of Chapel Paintings, 1971
Item — Shelf 81, Box: 7, Object: 1172
Identifier: 81.7.1172