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The past few. years, I’ve been looking for buildings that exist in the gap between art and religion. Are they museums? galleries? churches? something else? Here are a few I can’t stop thinking about. (thread)
1. “Roden Crater” (1977-ongoing) by James Turrell
1. “Roden Crater” (1977-ongoing) by James Turrell
2. “Austin” (2015) by Ellsworth Kelly
3. Louise Nevelson's Chapel of the Good Shepherd (1977) at Saint Peter's Church.
4. The Rothko Chapel (1971)
5. Agnes Martin Gallery (1993) at the Harwood Museum
6. The Shrine Room at the Rubin Museum
7. Tadao Ando’s Chichu Art Museum (2004) on Naoshima Island, Japan
8. Centre d'art contemporain, la synagogue de Delme, an art center located in a synagogue (19th c.)
9. The Windhover Contemplative Center (2014) at Stanford University
10. “Sanctum” (2015), in the remains of Bristol’s Temple Church, by Theaster Gates
11. The Musée d'Orangerie in Paris, with Monet's Water Lillies installed in 1922
12. The Kolumba Museum (2007) in Cologne. Built on top of the ruins of St. Kolumba Church (destroyed in World War II) the museum houses the Roman Catholic Archdiocese’s art collection spanning more than a thousand years
13. The Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (1951), also known as the Matisse Chapel, a small Catholic chapel with murals and stained glass by Henri Matisse
14. The contemporary art center and monastery of Santa Cecília de Montserrat (founded between 942 and 945), with a new permanent installation by Sean Scully (2015)
15. The Barolo Chapel, a non-consecrated church (c. 1914) in northern Italy's Piedmont region reimagined by Sol LeWitt in 1997
16. Grayson Perry's A House for Essex (2015) a "secular chapel" paying tribute to a fictitious saint standing in for the everywoman.
17. Dan Flavin's final work, "Untitled" (1997), permanently installed in Santa Maria in Chiesa Rossa, Milan.
18. “Sacred Streets” (2011-ongoing) by Jason Leith, dignifying portraits of homeless people displayed in a gallery built to the dimensions of the Temple in the book of Revelation.
19. “Gaia Mother Tree” (2018) by Ernesto Neto, a sensory environment inspired by indigenous spiritualities promoting meditation and ecological awareness.
20. The Abbell Synagogue at the Hadassah Medical Center Chapel with stained glass by Marc Chagall (1962)
21. Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, a meeting house for a Quaker community featuring a Skyspace (2013) by James Turrell
22. Chapel and Convent of the Capuchinas Sacramentarias by Luis Barragan (1952)
23. Congregation B’nai Israel with works by Robert Motherwell and Adolph Gottlieb (1950)
24. Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek (2001) co-designed by congregant and artist Sol LeWitt
25.San Marco Monastery with frescoes by Fra. Angelico (15th c.)
26. "Dream Temple" (1999) by Mariko Mori
