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
The Tontons. Image courtesy of the band.

Spring Fling at the Moody

Featuring The Tontons
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

Temporary Public Art | Commissioned by the Moody
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 Spring 2019

Shepherd School Students Compose + Perform Original Musical Responses to "Natasha Bowdoin: Sideways to the Sun"
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

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

Dimensions Variable

New Art/New Music at the Moody Center for the Arts. Photo by Nash Baker.

New Art / New Music Fall 2018

Shepherd School Students Compose + Perform Original Musical Responses to "Matthew Ritchie: The Demon in the Diagram"
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

Temporary Public Art | Commissioned by the Moody

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

New Art / New Music Spring 2018

Shepherd School Students Compose + Perform Original Musical Responses to "Josiah McElheny: Island Universe"
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

 

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