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,

Artist Talk & Documentary Film Screening Title: Conflict Theory

01.17.11

Entitled "Conflict Theory," this newly commissioned project by Christopher Sperandio, artist and assistant professor of art in the department of visual and dramatic arts at the

Cinema Arts Festival: A Tribute to Rice Media Center

11.11.10

Isabella Rossellini will help launch the Houston Cinema Arts Festival's 40th anniversary tribute to the Rice Media Center. Her father, the legendary Italian director Roberto Rossellini, worked