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By Iraqi novelist, poet, and film maker: Dr. Sinan Antoon and Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail

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Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series

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Performed by Adam Tendler, Robert Bridges, Pleg Sulyga, Andres Gonzalez, Barrett Sills, Rebekah French, Daniel Magner. Pieces include world premier of Kin Hin Twelve Minutes by Robert Bridges and Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage.

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Music Department at University of St. Thomas

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On the Chapel Plaza; a collaborative effort with Asia Society Texas Center and the Menil Collection, musicians: David and Chandrakaitha Courtney and friends

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Held at Stafford Centre. Co-sponsored by Rothko Chapel.

Abstract Haskell Small Suggested donation $10Mark 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...

Abstract Nicole Brossard Suggested donation $10Throughout 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,...

Abstract Eileen Costello, Ph.D. Suggested donation $10Mark Rothko’s paintings are often described in poetic terms that include allusions to the transcendental, the sublime, the spiritual, and the tragic. Rarely considered is Rothko’s keen interest in modernist architecture and his lifelong desire to transform the nature and experience of an existing architectural space with his paintings. Art historian Eileen Costello, Ph.D., discusses the architectural nature of Rothko’s paintings and...

Abstract Harry Cooper, Ph.D. Suggested donation $10 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...