Byzantine Fresco Chapel

Don’t miss the current installation: Infinity Machine by Cardiff and Miller. It is both beautiful and haunting. Based on the theory of Pythagoras and his music of the spheres it’s a mobile that will transport you right out of Houston into space… As one person noted in the tips section do read the pamphlet found when you first walk in the door. The soundtrack that plays is one you will never forget.

Part of the Menil Collection, the Chapel was built to house two 13^th century frescoes. The frescoes were returned to Cyprus in 2012.
The current installation is the Infinity Machine, a project by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.
Free, and worth a quick visit.

The most awesome exhibit-​The Infinity Machine-​very worth a visit.
«Now the chapel has been dramatically resurrected as a space for year-​long, site-​specific art installations. The first is by renowned Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, whose multimedia environments can be both disorienting and transcendent.» Houston Chronicle.
This exhibit consists of approx 150 vintage mirrors suspended by cables from a large rotating truss. There are lights in various areas of the room at various times, that shine on or within the installation. The «soundtrack» that plays in the room is digitally translated recordings of electromagnetic fields taken by NASA’s still out-​there Voyager I and II probes as they passed Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. We sat on each of the four sides of the room to get the full experience. You see something different every time you look. You see a mirror you didn’t see when you change perspective. Words don’t do this justice, it really is something you just have to see.