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Two Longhorns Lead the Charge on Reopening the Rothko Chapel

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 Obelisk” sculpture outside. It’s all fairly serene and pleasant. But the building itself, one of the most important artworks in the country, isn’t remarkable to me at first; from the exterior it looks not unlike an elementary school gymnasium. Until I walk inside.

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Rothko in a New Light

Rothko in a New Light A $30 million restoration of Houston’s Rothko Chapel features updated acoustics and lighting that showcase as never before the 14 canvases that line its walls. Inside the Rothko Chapel Photo: Elizabeth Felicella By Michael J. Lewis Houston The Rothko Chapel is a windowless brick octagon, 48 feet in diameter, whose sole source of light is a central oculus. It is a somber chamber of shadows and the 14 paintings by Mark Rothko that surround it are themselves shadows, rectangles of black or deep plum. It ought to be as inviting as the bottom of a well. And yet it is unexpectedly uplifting, and it seems to speak not of despair and oblivion but of the human spirit in all its proud, frail dignity.

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