“An estimated 100,000 people experience it every year. ‘It’ isn’t the fact that you’re sitting next to paintings by a man whose works regularly sell for upward of $50 million. ‘It’ is the quiet, the awe, and the reverie.”

From the January/February issue of our magazine, TXO Fellow Arman Badrei visits this 1971 temple to #art and contemplation on a very special night:

https://www.texasobserver.org/mark-rothko-chapel-houston/

(📸Photos by Arman Badrei)
#culture #Texas #sculpture #Houston #history

Meditations on Life and Death at Houston's Rothko Chapel

Although the abstract painter didn't survive to see it completed, the 1971 temple to art and contemplation is still revealing its magic.

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@TexasObserver @MarkRothko Nice feature. I've been there before.