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Artist Mark Fox manipulates text and blurs lines in If That Then This

By Nancy Wozny

05.19.13 | 9:00 am

One of the burdens of having spent a few decades studying human movement is being darn good at understanding the bodily evidence of just about everything. Wandering through the Mark Fox's exhib ...

Art opening reception: Soo Sunny Park: Unwoven Light

Rice Gallery

04.11.13

Unwoven Light, a new installation by American artist Soo Sunny Park for Rice University Art Gallery, will be a suspended, undulating structure made from shaped sections of chain link fencing. Withi

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Yoga in an art gallery catches on at Rice: New environment changes the exercise game

By Whitney Radley

02.21.13 | 10:20 am

"There's something interesting about viewing art at half-attention, in a different frame of mind," says Josh Fischer, assistant curator at the Rice University Art Gallery. We had ...

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The talk of the art world: Yasuaki Onishi's stunning Rice Gallery work draws national attention

By Whitney Radley

05.17.12 | 12:01 pm

Ever since Yasuaki Onishi's reverse of volume RG​ at Rice Gallery opened, the site-specific installation has drawn media attention from outlets as varied as Fast Co. De ...

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Legendary sculptor Joel Shapiro takes on the ultimate foe in new Rice Gallery installation

By Tyler Rudick

02.02.12 | 5:18 pm

Gravity is the ultimate friend and enemy to the sculptor... and since the launch of his career in the late '60s, Joel Shapiro experienced plenty of the sublime beauty and mean-spirited wrath&nb ...

Opening of Joel Shapiro: New Installation

Rice Gallery

02.02.12

In a gravity-defying array of color and form, American sculpture Joel Shapiro will suspend wooden planks, vibrantly painted with supersaturated pigment, from the gallery's 16-foot ceiling. The

Screening of Cave of Forgotten Dreams

10.28.11

Discover the roots of installation art with Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictoral c

Talk: Insights on Color & Architecture by Carlos Jiménez

Rice Gallery

10.25.11

Carlos Jiménez will illustrate his personal reflections on the meaning and use of color in architecture using historical precedents and examples of Jiménez's own work. Carlos Jim&

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Salon Houston style: Arts groups reinvent conversation gathering spots for the 21st century

By Nancy Wozny

07.24.11 | 1:30 pm

"And now Nancy will do an interpretive dance," I imagine Gertrude Stein saying to a gaggle of assorted artists and intellectuals gathered for spirits, discourse, and who knows what else. ...

Slow Movement for Fast Times: Tadasana Vinyasa Yoga at Rice gallery

Rice Gallery

06.27.11 - 08.08.11

Need to slow down and zen out? Come to the Rice Gallery for a 45-minute session of slow, contemplative yoga. No experience is necessary. Balancing movements may be done on a bench (provided).