Pride Chorus Houston at the Moody, JooYoung Choi Installation.

Pride Happy Hour

Pride Chorus Houston Returns with DJ Krazzy Kris

Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today

Spring 2023 Exhibition

JooYoung Choi, photo by Lawrence Elizabeth Knox. Courtesy of Weingarten Art Group and Houston Endowment

Opening Reception for "Love and Wondervision"

Join the Artist JooYoung Choi to Celebrate the Summer 2023 Exhibition

Closing Celebration for "Narrative Threads"

Craft Collab with Contemporary Handweavers of Houston and Quilt Guild of Greater Houston

Dimensions Variable: Doug Fitch + Tommy Nguyen

Spring 2023 | Performance

New Art / New Music Spring 2023

Spring 2023 | Shepherd School Students Perform Original Scores

Earth Day Celebration with Bennie Flores Ansell

Spring 2023 | Moody Project Wall Community Event
Yvette Janine Jackson, "RETURN," Turrell Skyspace

Debut of Yvette Janine Jackson Skyspace Commission, "RETURN"

Spring 2023 | Premiere of Original Electronic Composition

Devin T. Mays, "The Day I Met the Sun"

Spring 2023 | Theater Performance

Artists-in-Dialogue: Christina Forrer + Klaus Weissenberger

Spring 2023 | Exhibiting Artist Discusses the Power of Fairy Tales with Rice Professor Emeritus
Yvette Janine Jackson, "RETURN," Turrell Skyspace

Yvette Janine Jackson, "RETURN"

Spring 2023 | Original Electronic Composition

Lēnablou Performance with Open Dance Project

Spring 2023 | Celebrate the Start of the French Cultures Festival
Allison Hunter, Hive at Rice, 2020. Photo by Nash Baker.

Thinking with Bees

Spring 2023 | Cross-departmental exploration of art and nature
Bennie Flores Ansell, photo by Katy Anderson.

Opening Reception for Moody Project Wall: Bennie Flores Ansell, "Swarm Migration"

Spring 2023 | Celebrate the new installation by local artist

Spring Fling: Bright Light Social Hour + People Museum

Spring 2023 | Annual Outdoor Music Concert

Public Talk with Odili Donald Odita

Spring 2023 | Learn about the new mural "Meeting Place / Painting with Changing Parts"

Artist Talk with Victor Ekpuk

Spring 2023 | Free Lecture at the Moody

Moody Project Wall: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton, “_____ as Myth”

Fall 2022 | A collaboration between Mouton, local artists and Rice University students

Opening Reception for Narrative Threads

Spring 2023 | Exhibition Reception

"Honor," an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor

Spring 2023 | One-Night Only Performance
Tiffany Chung, "City of Future Promises," and Rick Lowe, "Project Row Houses: Hindsight," installation view, "Urban Impressions," photo by Sean Fleming.

Urban Impressions: Experiencing the Global Contemporary Metropolis

Fall 2022 Exhibition

Platform: Rana Begum

Fall 2022 | Platform | Multi-site Installation

NFTs as Artistic Medium

Virtual discussion exploring NFTs

Urban Nights

A Communal Art Experience
Flash Gordon Parks, portrait. Robin Rhode portrait, photo by Nils Muller, courtesy of Lehmann Maupin.

Artists-in-Dialogue: Robin Rhode and Flash Gordon Parks

Signature Series | A Conversation About Art + Urban Spaces

New Art / New Music Fall 2022

Original musical responses from Shepherd School student musicians

Skyspace: Elainie Lillios, Night Sky

Celebrate the 10th-anniversary of Turrell's work with a sonic journey
Katsumi Hayakawa, "Intersection," 2017. Courtesy of Courtesy of the artist and McClain Gallery.

Reading the City: Perspectives on the Contemporary Global Metropolis

Symposium

Opening Reception for Moody Project Wall: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton

Celebrate community-based artmaking
Opening reception, "Urban Impressions," photo by Allyson Huntsman.

Opening Reception for "Urban Impressions"

Celebrate the Fall 2022 Exhibition

Opening Reception for Off the Wall: Danielle Dean

Public Art | Public Opening for New Work
Photograph of Clarissa Tossin's artwork, the eighth continent. The photo shows the tapestry on the wall of the Brochstein Pavilion with a person walking nearby.

Off the Wall: Clarissa Tossin, The 8th Continent

Site-specific installation
"Baseera Khan: Weight on History," installation view, "Features [Feat. ]"" Photo by Geoff Winningham.

Baseera Khan: Weight on History

Summer 2022 Exhibition
Women moving projected images of fruit around the wall with a VR controller

Jennifer Steinkamp: Womb

Summer 2022 Installation

Closing Reception for "Baseera Khan: Weight on History"

Cocktails by Loro | DJ Hiram

Karin Broker, Delita Martin, and Charisse Pearlina Weston

New installations join GONZO247's community mural on Rice's campus

Moody Project Wall: Reginald Adams

Art of Sound & Healing

Summer Jam

Community Engagement | Local Food Vendors, Kids Activities, + More

Sip + Stroll: Public Art Walk

Explore Public Art on Campus | Tour of Select Public Artworks at Rice
Open Dance Project Bonnie & Clyde, photo by Lynn Lane

Open Dance Project's Bonnie & Clyde

Community Partnership | Immersive Dance Theatre Production

Opening Reception for Baseera Khan: Weight on History

Summer 2022 Opening Reception with the Artist
Summer 2022 Wellness Series

Summer Wellness Series

Campus Partnership | Open to the Public
Pride Chorus Houston peforming

Pride Happy Hour with Pride Chorus Houston

Community Engagement | Pride Month Celebration

Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music

Spring 2022 Exhibition
White panels affixed to windows of architecture building

Platform: Edra Soto, GRAFT

Temporary Public Art | Anderson Hall

Samsāra

Campus Partnership | Award-winning VR Experience at the Moody

Six dancers illuminated by blue light while performing above audience

Choreographer Karole Armitage, 10th Anniversary Performance

Skyspace Performance | Two Nights of Dance at the Iconic Public Artwork

Ocean Music Action

Community Engagement | Earth Day Celebration

Dimensions Variable: Raven Chacon + Nameless Sound

Signature Series | Musicians + Dancer Activate Artworks

Artists-in-Dialogue: Jamal Cyrus + Anthony B. Pinn

Signature Series | Exploring art, music, + the history of the black church

Hilma

Campus Partnership | Daniel Zlatkin's Opera Inspired by Hilma af Klint
Man wearing a hat plays the saxophone while standing and pointing into the air

Moody's 5th Birthday Party with The Selfless Lovers

Community Engagement | Annual Spring Fling Celebrates 5 Years

Opening Reception for Samsāra

Campus Partnership | VR Experience and Remote Q&A with Artist

Opening Reception for Reginald Adams, The Art of Sound & Healing

Temporary Public Art | Moody Project Wall Opening Reception

Artists-in-Dialogue: Leslie Hewitt + Alexandra Kieffer

Signature Series | A Conversation on Music and Art

Pianist Wesley Ducote

Skyspace Performance | Live Piano + Electronic Music
Detail image of Jillian Conrad's work title Hydras

Opening Reception for Jillian Conrad, Hydras

Temporary Public Art | Opening Reception at the BRC

Sound Bath + Sacred Geometry Workshop with Reginald Adams

Community Engagement | Be a part of the next Moody Project Wall

Dimensions Variable: Jerry Hou

Signature Series | Musical response to the Work of Anri Sala + Spencer Finch

A Talk with Michael Maltzan

Campus Partnership | Approaches to Interdisciplinary Art Spaces
Gerardo Rosales, ¡Displaced Mundo! in progress. Photo by Gazi Fuad.

Moody Project Wall: Gerardo Rosales, ¡Displaced Mundo!

Temporary Public Art | A New, Collaborative Series
Dornith Doherty's Seedling Cabinet artwork at the BRC

Dornith Doherty, Seedling Cabinet I, II, III

Temporary Public Art | Works on View at Rice's BRC

Opening Reception for Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music

Spring 2021 Exhibition Opening Reception

Three Experiments in Music Writing

Campus Partnership | Lecture by David Grubbs, Presented by VADA

Kapwani Kiwanga: The Sand Recalls the Moon’s Shadow

Fall 2021 Exhibition
Portraits of Tossin, Kring, and Alexander

Artists-in-Dialogue: Clarissa Tossin, David Alexander, and David Kring

Signature Series | A Conversation about the Moon + Art

Moody Community Night

Community Engagement | Outdoor Showing of "Elf"
Image of Jasmine Hearn in front of Maya-Bantu Installation by Kapwani Kiwanga

Dimensions Variable: Jasmine Hearn

Signature Series | Dance Performance by Award-Winning Performer

Meet the Artist: Kapwani Kiwanga

Community Engagement | Public Tour with the Artist

Artwalk: Broker, Martin, Soto + Weston

Explore Public Art on Campus | See the Art + Hear From the Artists

Artists-in-Dialogue: Hanan Sabea and Kapwani Kiwanga

Signature Series | A Conversation About the Earth's Resources + Art
Lisa E. Harris performs for audience while wearing white

Dimensions Variable: Lisa E. Harris

Signature Series | Award-winning songwriter's performative response to the fall exhibition
One Thing Well: 22 Years of Installation Art

Book Launch for One Thing Well: 22 Years of Installation Art

Community Partnership | A Celebration of Rice Gallery
Gerardo Rosales. Photo by Juan Sanchez.

Opening Reception for Gerardo Rosales, ¡Displaced Mundo!

Temporary Public Art | Moody Project Wall Opening Reception with the Artist

Opening Reception for Dornith Doherty, "Seedling Cabinet I, II, III"

Temporary Public Art | Celebrate at the BRC with the Artist
Sondra Perry: Off the Wall, 2020. Photo by Nash Baker.

Off the Wall: Sondra Perry, Ocean Modifier

Temporary Public Art | On View at the Brochstein Pavilion

Closing Reception for Off the Wall: Sondra Perry, Ocean Modifier

Temporary Public Art | With Musical Guests Daleton & Brandon Lee
Kapwani Kiwanga, 'White: Gold Morogoro'

Opening Reception for Kapwani Kiwanga: The Sand Recalls the Moon’s Shadow

Fall 2021 Opening Reception | Featuring DJ Sun | Open to the Public

Opening Reception for Off the Wall: Clarissa Tossin, The 8th Continent

Temporary Public Art | In-Person Event, Registration Encouraged
Installation view 'Brie Ruais: Movement at the Edge of the Land' Photo by Nash Baker

Brie Ruais: Movement at the Edge of the Land

Summer 2021 Exhibition
Sheila Hicks, 'The Questioning Column,' 2016. Acrylic fibers. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Nash Baker

Sheila Hicks, The Questioning Column

Temporary Public Art | Moody Terrace

Brie Ruais photo by Nash Baker, Sara Zewde (c) Studio Zewde

Artists-in-Dialogue: Brie Ruais and Sara Zewde

Signature Series | A Conversation on Art + Urban Landscapes
We Make Carpets. Photo by Nash Baker

Creative Interventions: Rice University Outdoor Structures
Photo credit Allyson Huntsman

Brie Ruais: Movement at the Edge of the Land Opening Reception

Photo credit Allyson Huntsman

Dimensions Variable

Celebrate summer with the arts!

Mindful Movement Classes with the Gibbs Recreation and Wellness Center

Alejandro Chaoul. Photo courtesy of Moody Center for the Arts

From the Ground Up: a workshop around the element of earth with Alejandro Chaoul

Sheila Hicks, 'The Questioning Column,' 2016. Acrylic fibers. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Nash Baker

Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration

Spring 2021 Exhibition

Photo credit Allyson Huntsman

Dimensions Variable

Byron Kim

Byron Kim

Leslie and Brad Bucher Artist-in-Residence Program
Participating artists in front of works by David Novros.

DACAMERA Young Artists Concert

Shirazeh Houshiary, 2016 © Shirazeh Houshiary; Courtesy Lisson Gallery. Photo: Dave Morgan

Artists-in-Dialogue: Shirazeh Houshiary and Enuma Okoro

Courtesy Rothko Chapel. Photo: Hickey-Robertson, Houston

"The Rothko Chapel" (1972): A Virtual Film Screening

Platform | We Make Carpets, Ribbon Pavilion: Barn Raising #1

Platform | We Make Carpets, Ribbon Pavilion: Barn Raising #2

Photo by Nash Baker

New Art/New Music

Barnett Newman's 'Broken Obelisk' in front of the Rothko Chapel, 1971. Photo by Hickey-Robertson. Co

Filming the Rothko Chapel: A Conversation with Francois de Menil and David Leslie

'B.Q.O. 11,' 2020 Acrylic on canvas on panel Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan

"Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972): A Virtual Film Screening

Artist Byron Kim and Poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Artists-in-Dialogue: Byron Kim & Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Photo by Nash Baker

States of Mind: Art and American Democracy

Fall 2020 Exhibition
Rice University Visual and Dramatic Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sondra Perry

Rice University Visual and Dramatic Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Tomashi Jackson

Aram Han Sifuentes, Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t for the 2020 Presidential Election, 2020. Photo by Nash Baker.

States of Mind: Featured Artists Video Series

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sondra Perry

Rice University Visual and Dramatic Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sondra Perry

New Art/New Music

New Art/New Music

New Art/New Music

New Art/New Music: "Let Your Voice be Heard": A Virtual, World-Wide, Interactive Concert

A Zoom Event
Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco Artist Talk

Coco Fusco

Leslie and Brad Bucher Artist-in-Residence Program
Catherine Opie. Photo: Heather Rasmussen, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul

Artists-in-Dialogue: A Zoom Conversation with Catherine Opie, Marcellina Melvin and Andy Keller

Coco Fusco. Photo by Geandy Pavon.

Artists-in-Dialogue: A Zoom Conversation with Coco Fusco and Luis Duno-Gottberg

Aram Han Sifuentes, Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t for the 2020 Presidential Election, 2020. Photo by Nash Baker.

States of Mind: Featured Artists Video Series

Erin Curtis. Light Shift, 2020. Photo by Nash Baker.

Summer Window Series: Erin Curtis
Open Dance Project. Photo by Jeff Fitlow.

Open Dance Project: A Response to "Light Shift"

Tomashi Jackson, A Pnyx for Crystal Mason in Fort Worth, TX, 2020. UV print on PVC marine vinyl, campaign sign, acrylic paint, muslin, safety pins, acrylic yarn, & canvas. Courtesy the artist and Night Gallery. © 2020 the artist. Photo: Nik Massey

Opening Receptions: States of Mind: Art and American Democracy

Harold Mendez, Field (Encounter), 2019. Photo by Nash Baker

Off the Wall: Harold Mendez
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, perhaps, there is no sequel, 2020. Photo by Daniel Ortiz.

Platform: Kameelah Janan Rasheed

perhaps, there is no sequel
"Impossible Light" (2014). Directed by Jeremy Ambers.

Summer Film Series

Open Dance Project. Photo by Jeff Fitlow.

Open Dance Project: A Behind-the-Scenes Instagram Live Event

Ganzeer, It Takes A Village, 2020. Photo by Nash Baker.

Summer Window Series: Ganzeer
Shepherd School percussionist Aaron Smith performs a new composition by Shepherd School composer Theo Chandler inspired by Mark di Suvero's Po-um (Lyric) (2003). Photo by Daniel Ortiz.

Summer Music Series

A Celebration of Rice Public Art
"Impossible Light" (2014). Directed by Jeremy Ambers.

Summer Film Series

Kameelah Janan Rasheed, perhaps, there is no sequel, 2020. Photo by Daniel Ortiz.

Engage with Platform: Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

A Virtual Poetry Intervention by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

Shepherd School percussionist Aaron Smith performs a new composition by Shepherd School composer Theo Chandler inspired by Mark di Suvero's Po-um (Lyric) (2003). Photo by Daniel Ortiz.

Summer Music Series

A Celebration of Rice Public Art
"Impossible Light" (2014). Directed by Jeremy Ambers.

Summer Film Series

The Outspoken Bean responds to the Moody's Summer Window Series: Ganzeer. (2020) Photo by Jeff Fitlo

The Outspoken Bean: A Response to "It Takes A Village"

Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present, Moody Center for the Arts. Photo by Nash Baker.

Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present

Spring 2020 Exhibition
Serge Attukwei Clottey: Softening Borders, Moody Center for the Arts. Photo by Nash Baker.

Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present

Serge Attukwei Clottey: Softening Borders
Geoff Winningham, Changing Houston, 2019.

Geoff Winningham: Changing Houston
Frederik de Wilde, Quantum State of Mind (digital mockup), 2018.

Frederik De Wilde: Quantum State of Mind

Rice Public Art
Robert Rauschenberg Local Means (Stoned Moon), 1970 Lithograph 32 3/8 x 43 1/4 inches (82.2 x 110 cm) From an edition of 11, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles ©Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Gemini G.E.L.

Moon Shot

Fall 2019 Exhibition
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #867 (detail), 1998. LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut Installation view Sol LeWitt. Colors, M – Museum Leuven, 2012 © SABAM – Photo: M – Museum Leuven, Cis Van Nijverseel

Symposium: Sol LeWitt Today

Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang, To the Moon, 2018. Virtual reality and physical set. Courtesy of the artists.

Moon Shot: Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang
Katy Schimert, The Moon Speaks (Future Perfect, Moon Landing Collage), 1993. 29 x 21 inches. Xerox Images, transparent paper, oil paint on paper Courtesy of the artist.

Lunar Soundscapes

Matthew Day Jackson, LIFE To the Moon and Back, 2019. Textile, silkscreen, architectural turf mat, acrylic paint. © Matthew Day Jackson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson

Artists in Dialogue: Matthew Day Jackson and Leroy Chiao

Moderated by Matthew Ritchie
For All Mankind (1989), Directed by Al Reinert

For All Mankind (1989), Directed by Al Reinert

Andy Warhol, Moonwalk, 1987. Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board. 38 x 38 inches. Courtesy of the Ronald Feldman Gallery. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Moonlight at the Moody

Platform: Nina Katchadourian: Please, Please, Pleased to Meet’cha. Photo: Nash Baker

Platform: Nina Katchadourian

Please, Please, Pleased to Meet’cha
Nina Katchadourian (c) 2014 MMS photographed by Jackie Neale

Artist Talk: Nina Katchadourian

Gillian Wearing, Rock ‘n’ Roll 70, 2015. Framed c-prints, 48 x 72”, Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Background image: Gillian Wearing, Wallpaper, 2015, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.

Gillian Wearing: Rock ‘n’ Roll 70

Hope Stone Dance at the Moody Center for Arts. Photo by Sonya Sellers

Hope Stone Dance: "5 Pieces of Candy"

Tacita Dean, Craneway Event, 2009, 16 mm colour anamorphic film, optical sound, 108 min. Film still. Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, Frith Street Gallery, London.

Tacita Dean: Craneway Event

Summer 2019 Screening

Tacita Dean, Craneway Event, 2009, 16 mm colour anamorphic film, optical sound, 108 min. Film still. Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, Frith Street Gallery, London.

Artists-In-Dialogue: Tacita Dean and Kimberly Bartosik

Michel Blazy, We Were the Robots, 2019

Michel Blazy: We Were the Robots

Momoko Seto: PLANET ∞ (2017)

WE ARE THE ASTEROID III, 2019. Text and sandblasted, solar-powered LED message board. Text by Timothy Morton. Approx. 152” x 84”/ 386 cm x 213 cm. Photo: courtesy of the artist

Justin Brice Guariglia: WE ARE THE ASTEROID III (2019)

Natasha Bowdoin. 'Sideways to the Sun.' Commissioned for the Moody Center for the Arts. Photo: Nash Baker

Natasha Bowdoin: Sideways to the Sun

Creativity Up Close Lecture Series

New Art / New Music

Machine Dazzle; Photo credit Willa Folmar

Dimensions Variable: Machine Dazzle

Kurt Stallmann and Alfred Guzzetti: Among Rivers

Photo: Jesús Vassallo

Faculty Arts Showcase

Dimensions Variable with Poncili Creacion. Photo by Nash Baker.

Dimensions Variable: Poncili Creación

Poncili Creación

Artist Talk: Poncili Creación

Poncili Creación

Workshop: Poncili Creación

Creativity Up Close Lecture Series

A Night of Philosophy and Ideas

A Night of Philosophy and Ideas

Installation view of Particle Chamber by Leo Villareal, 2017. Six channel digital projection, electrical hardware, and custom software. 13ft x 17ft 1/2in x 15ft. © Leo Villareal. Courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo: Nash Baker

Leo Villareal: Particle Chamber

2018 Installation
Matthew Ritchie

Matthew Ritchie

The Demon in the Diagram
Moonrise Kingdom, 2012. Movie poster

Moody Movie Night: Moonrise Kingdom

Moody Movie Night: Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom

Moody Movie Night: Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom
Matthew Ritchie. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York

Matthew Ritchie

Leslie and Brad Bucher Artist-in-Residence Program
Twilight Epiphany (2012), The James Turrell Skyspace at the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion a

George Lewis: Remains of the Sky
Erika Blumenfeld, Encyclopedia of Trajectories (Work-in-Progress), 2018, 23.5k gold in gum arabic on Arches paper. Image courtesy the artist.

Erika Blumenfeld

Encyclopedia of Trajectories
Motoko Hondo, The Perfect Shadow of an Imperfect Realm (detail), 2017.

An Evening of Graphic Scores and Avant-Garde Jazz

New Art / New Music with studens from the Shepherd School of Music. Artwork copyright the artist. Photo Nash Baker

New Art / New Music

Dimensions Variable at the Moody Center for the Arts. Photo by Nash Baker.

Dimensions Variable

We Make Carpets, Crêpe Paper Carpet, 2018. 65,000 folded sheets of crêpe paper. Photo: Nash Baker

We Make Carpets: Crêpe Paper Carpet

Summer 2018 Installation

6 Projects pop up exhibition

Pop-up Exhibition

+1, +1, +1, +1, +1, +1, Six Projects on Accessory Dwelling
Musicians from Silkroad Ensemble. Photo: Liz Linder Photography

Music and Conversation: Arts and Leadership

Free and open to the public
Installation view of Island Universe by Josiah McElheny, 2008. Chrome plated aluminum, handblown and molded glass, electric lighting, and rigging. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Nash Baker

Josiah McElheny: Island Universe

Spring 2018 Installation
Installation view of Pile the Wood High (Anna Helm, Lisa Lapinski, and Hirsch Perlman). Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, 2018. Photo: Nash Baker

Pile the Wood High!
Open Dance Project's DADA GERT. Choreography by Annie Arnoult. Photo by Lynn Lane.

DADA GERT

Joseph Cohen, Graphene, 2017. Laser induced graphene on Arches paper. 20 x 30 inches. Courtesy the artist

Joseph Cohen

Looking at a flower
Jarrod Beck, Origin, 135 degrees, 2017, Steel and resin clay. Commissioned by Rice Public Art and made possible through the generous support of Russ Pitman (’58). Photo: Lynn Lane.

Platform: Jarrod Beck

Origin, 135 degrees
Lisa Edwards-Burrs performs Auksalaq, score excerpt by Matthew Burtner. Photo by Joe Adkins

EcoSono Ensemble

Twilight Epiphany (2012), The James Turrell Skyspace at the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion at Rice University. Photo Paul Hester. Image courtesy Rice University.

Hans Tutschku: nighttime songs from afar
Josiah McElheny, Island Universe, 2008. Photo by Todd-White Art Photography, London

Josiah McElheny: Island Universe

Opening Reception with the Artist

Diana Thater: The Starry Messenger

Spring 2017 Installation
teamLab, Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – A Whole Year per Hour, 2015. Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi. Installation photo at the Moody Center for the Arts, 2017. Photo: Jenny Antill

teamLab– Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – A Whole Year per Hour

2017 Installation
Mickalene Thomas, Shinique: Now I Know, 2015. Rhinestones, acrylic and oil on wood panel. 96 x 120 inches. © Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star

Fall 2017 Exhibition

Sarah Rothenberg with Dylan Morrongiello, tenor, Shepherd School of Music, and Carlos Dengler as The Narrator/Marcel in A Proust Sonata. Performance at the Moody Center for the Arts’ Lois Chiles Studio Theater at Rice University, 2017. Photo: Ben Doyle

A Proust Sonata

Twilight Epiphany (2012), The James Turrell Skyspace at the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion a

Trajectory of a Curve: A Sound and Light Composition by Kurt Stallmann

Artist Jarrod Beck with the 45° element of Michael Heizer’s massive granite sculpture 45°, 90°, 180° (1984) at Rice University. Photo courtesy Rice Public Art.

Public performance and procession

Jarrod Beck: Origin, 135 degrees
Installation view of Repeater by David Scanavino, 2017. Photo: Nash Baker

David Scanavino: Repeater

Summer 2017 Installation
Brazilian Arts Foundation, Capoeira performance

Performance: Capoeira Luanda

© David Scanavino.

Summer Jam

Free admission
Olafur Eliasson, Green light – An artistic workshop, 2016. Photo: Nash Baker

Olafur Eliasson

Green Light -- An artistic workshop
Installation view of Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics at the Moody Center for the Arts. ©Thomas Struth. Photo: Nash Baker

Thomas Struth

Nature & Politics

Artists in Dialogue: Diana Thater and David Alexander

Mona Hatoum at the Moody. Photo: Nash Baker

Mona Hatoum

Leslie and Brad Bucher Artist-in-Residence Program
An Iiad, by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare. Directed by Rob Kimbro. Starring Leon Ingulsrud as The Poet. Original music by Ben Morris. Photo: Jeff Fitlow

Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare

An Iliad
Dancers of Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre perform Vespertine Awakenings at the James Turrell Twilight Epiphany Skyspace

Dušan Týnek Dance Theater

Vespertine Awakenings
 

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