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Houston residents gathered at the Rothko Chapel Tuesday evening to mourn the many lives lost during the Texas Hill Country ...
A community vigil honoring the lives lost in the recent Texas Hill Country flood will take place at Houston's Rothko Chapel ...
The Rothko Chapel’s 3,830 square feet are often kept clear but for a few wooden benches and stray black floor cushions. On my frequent visits (barely ever planned) I’d park myself in the ...
Rothko now had total design control over the chapel, which is exceedingly rare for artists. Rothko rented a large carriage house in New York City where he could experiment with a scale model of ...
But the Rothko Chapel—next to a stone pyramid sculpture balancing a broken obelisk at its apex—has inspired both bewilderment and meditation in its visitors for more than 50 years.
Rothko Chapel executive director David Leslie, left, and Linbeck project engineer Marshall McBurnett stand on a construction platform near the ceiling and skylight of the building during the early ...
It’s been 19 months since the Rothko Chapel was last open to the public. Counted among Houston’s iconic landmarks, the chapel closed in March 2019 for extensive renovations and reopened ...
The piece is in part a tribute to one of Sorey’s heroes, the composer Morton Feldman, whose “Rothko Chapel” was written in 1971 for the building, a project by the arts philanthropists ...
David Leslie, executive director of the Rothko Chapel, stands on the steps of one of the bungalows across the street from the Rothko Chapel that is starting to be demolished, on Dec. 10, 2018.
Invited to write a new work for Houston's Rothko Chapel, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey created a work that is both intimate and vast, like those Mark Rothko paintings.
The Rothko Chapel — an inclusive space for prayer, meditation and introspection located near the Menil Collection in Montrose — was the target of what executive director David Leslie describes ...
Invited to write a new work for Houston's Rothko Chapel, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey created a work that is both intimate and vast, like those Mark Rothko paintings.