“I knew right then I had to find out what was really going on in this place. I had to stay right here. Never made it to California.”
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This Week: World Premiere of Opera about the Rothko Chapel and Dominique de Menil
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOn Thursday, March 16 and Friday, March 17, the Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will present the world premiere of Some Light Emerges, a musical celebration of Houston’s social history, visual…
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On Tuesday night, five members of the Cooper Union’s board of trustees (and staunch supporters of the college’s president) resigned en masse, including Vice Chairman Francois de Menil. On Wednesday…
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It was that AHA! moment, as if I woke up from a winter sleep and was alive, feeling Mark Rothko’s art around me. Wonderful. Powerful. Unforgettable. THANK YOU Mrs. de Menil.
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The art historian and scholar Thomas McEvilley died yesterday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York. He was 73 years old. A national figure and author of numerous monographs, essays…
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On Friday, the Rothko Chapel announced that Nabila Drooby, one of the longest serving members on its Board of Directors, had passed away on Saturday, February 9, 2013 in Beirut,…
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The Southwest Alternative Media Project (SWAMP) is launching a Citzen-Filmmaker Competition in honor of it’s 35th Anniversary and invites everyone to compete. The rules are simple: using a mobile device…
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Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil has been selected as 2010’s best book on an art collection by the International Art Book and Film Festival of…