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

Artists-in-Dialogue: Shirazeh Houshiary and Enuma Okoro

Signature Series | A Conversation About Spirituality in Art
Courtesy Rothko Chapel. Photo: Hickey-Robertson, Houston

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

Community Partnership | Learn About the Rothko Chapel

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

Community Engagement | Call for Volunteers!

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

Community Engagement | Call for Volunteers!
Photo by Nash Baker

New Art/New Music

Campus Partnership | Original Scores by Shepherd School of Music Students
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

Campus Partnership | A Conversation About the Film
'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

Campus Partnership | Byron Kim Introduction with Rice Cinema
Artist Byron Kim and Poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

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

Signature Series | A Conversation Inspired by Water
The Tontons. Image courtesy of the band.

Spring Fling at the Moody

Featuring Live Music by The Tontons
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

"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

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

Off the Wall: Harold Mendez

2020 Academic Year | Site-Specific Installation | Partnership with Glassell School of Art, MFAH
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, perhaps, there is no sequel, 2020. Photo by Daniel Ortiz.

Platform: Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Spring and Summer 2020 | Adjacent to Brochstein Pavilion

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

Spring and Summer 2019 | Adjacent to Brochstein Pavilion
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

 

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