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The expansion, which started in 2019, will include new buildings to support the chapel's ongoing mission in art, spirituality and human rights.

Construction of the new buildings and landscape features expected to be complete in 2026.

Today, the Rothko Chapel broke ground on Phase II of its Opening Spaces campus plan, a $42 million, multi-year restoration and expansion campaign. At

Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting at MFAH Following last week’s electrical nightmare, an art exhibit celebrating lighting devices may sound like pretty good timing. Starting Saturday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston presents an exhibit that explores three aspects of lighting: different types, like a desk lamp or chandelier; the importance of the lightbulb (we Houstonians know that); and all the ways light can be manipulated. The immersive experience highlights (literally) lighting...

Walking through the lawn that separates the Menil Collection and its park to the east from the Rothko Chapel in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood, I am not particularly struck by the type of transcendent beauty for which I am told to prepare myself. There is a group doing yoga on the lawn, everyone spaced 6 feet apart on colorful mats. People read books and lower their masks to chat. A docent wanders around the main attraction, between the Chapel’s entrance and Barnett Newman’s “Broken Ob...