Did you get a chance to really study the Rothko Chapel? I arrived one day at 4:50 (the earliest I could get there) and 5 of the minutes before closing was spent buying slides. I really wished I'd had more than 5 minutes to really study and think about it. (I was just passing through.) It looks so much bleaker than his other works; I like the rectangular ("grave") images in his other works. They move for me: spatially, visually, spiritually. But the Rothko Chapel just seems dead. Well.....he killed himself before it opened. Maybe there's a connection...
Gee, seems like I've seen that Stuckist quote a lot lately. :)
I get a lot more out of the Menil's surrealism collection (and related collections of artifacts) than I do out of anything else in the museum.
There is also a Cy Twombly museum near by. Nothing but chalkboards with chalk scribbles on them. Real nice looking building. The art/walls do nothing for me.
I hear that a child went through there on a school field trip. He reportedly put some gum on one of the boards and maybe smugged the chalk. Ms. Menil is dead now, it's a foundation.
The staff panicked and called the artist. He wasn't upset at all (why should he be, I don't think he owns it any more). I'm not sure but he may have even convinced them to "leave it that way".
There is a domed church that the Menil museum has preserved as well "on extended loan" from Turkey I believe (it was a stolen work, the foundation helped to secure the work from the theives rather than let it disappear and worked with the government to preserve it). It is on the St. Thomas campus.