The Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational devotional space in Houston, Texas, is home to fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko. Visitors come to the chapel for all sorts of reasons– from memorializing ...

For the past six years, the yellow hard hats and bright orange vests of construction crews have intermittently dotted Sul Ross in Montrose, near the corner of Yupon. The Rothko Chapel's Opening Spaces ...

Abdullah Antepli is the new president of Houston’s Rothko Chapel (left). Dark-hued paintings by artist Mark Rothko are the focal point of the meditative space inside Houston’s Rothko Chapel. Antepli ...

Houston’s meditative Rothko Chapel reopened to the public Thursday, looking as peaceful as ever. Maybe more, since the interior is no longer unsettlingly dark and the entry vestibule no longer holds a ...

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 ...

Generations of Houstonians have experienced moments of quiet contemplation inside the Rothko Chapel. Now, they can do so just outside its walls as well. On Friday, November 14, the chapel will ...

It will erect three new buildings to support the chapel’s ongoing social justice programming and is replacing the building’s ceiling apparatus with a new skylight and digital lighting system. Rothko ...

Sponsored by John and Dominique de Menil, paintings by Mark Rothko, sculpture by Barnett Newman, architecture by Philip Johnson. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20 ...