Clearly, things have been slow around here for the past few days, in part because of my computer problems but also because I was in Houston for a wedding Friday through Sunday. We had a great time during the weekend, although I was disappointed yet pleased that we didn’t encounter anything stereotypically Texan while there. Instead, we spent Saturday afternoon visiting the more sophisticated side of Houston.

First we hit up the Rothko Chapel (it is what it sounds like), then moved on to the Menil Collection of modern art. The last culture stop was at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel (pictured on the right), which is an incredible modernistic chapel consisting of stolen Byzantine frescos later recovered and reassembled coupled with a plexiglass frame hanging from the ceiling. Neat. The neighborhood around the museum could have been airlifted directly from Cambridge, MA for all I knew – it had that kind of academic feel. (more…)