Rice Media Center opening reception: The Ground On Which I Stand

03.13.14

Rice University's Media Center and curator Geoff Winningham host Marti Corn's photographic exhibit The Ground On Which I Stand as part of FotoFest. Freed from slavery, some of the

2014 Campbell Lecture Series featuring Robert Wilson

03.26.14 - 03.28.14

Playwright, experimental theater producer and painter Robert Wilson will deliver the 2014 Campbell Lecture Series at Rice University. The New York Times described Robert Wilson as "a towering

Cutting-edge architect

$20 million for a campus changer: Rice's new arts center to have a bold, risky look

By Tyler Rudick

02.14.13 | 11:03 am

Thanks to a generous donation from the Moody Foundation, Rice University is $20 million closer to creating its much-anticipated arts center. The 50,000-square-foot building, now dubbed the Mood ...

Mountainfilm Screenings on Tour

03.30.12 - 03.31.12

The inaugural showing of Mountainfilm in Houston screens films educating audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sus

Screening of On Coal River

10.13.11

Coal River Valley, W. Va., is a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. On Coal River follows a former miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the fut

Festival of Contemporary Films from India Curtain Raiser

10.05.11

As the curtain raiser for the Festival of Contemporary Films from India, the Chao Center for Asian Studies hosts a screening of Throne of Death, winner of Camera d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in

Opening Reception and Talk: Albert Oehlen and Christopher Wool's "Musical Moves"

09.08.11

The German painter Albert Oehlen and the American painter Christopher Wool have immersed themselves in various musical activities, from Oehlen's actual music-making (as a former member of Red K

Mexican Film Festival

09.09.11 - 09.25.11

The Mexican Film Festival opens Sept. 9 and features legendary Mexican director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego. Both  Ripstein and Garciadiego will visit Rice Universi

QFest Special Presentation: Screening of We Were Here

07.29.11

We Were Here documents the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. The film focuses on five individuals – all of whom lived in San Francisco prior to the ep

"The Black List Project"

02.03.11 - 02.15.11

"The Black List Project" is a photographic exhibition and documentary featuring portraits of prominent African Americans of various professions, disciplines and backgrounds. Historically,