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Kevin Cassidy is a computer consultant, website designer, blog developer, transcriptionist, and MS Office specialist living in Houston, Texas. He was born in 1946 and grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan a suburb around Detroit. He moved to Houston, Texas in 1966 to attend the University of St. Thomas. Kevin Cassidy taught yoga at the School of Yoga in the 1970s in Houston where he has lived for over 35 years. He is an amateur student of world history with special interests in the world literature, architecture, art, archaeology, and military history. In 1978, Kevin Cassidy photographed many of the temples and archaeology sites in Egypt, Greece, and Israel. He has continued reading and researching in those areas (as well as many others) since then and is planning blogs on many of the themes above. Living in the Menil Collection / Rothko Chapel / Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum neighborhood for over 30 years, Kevin has attended many of the cultural events and experienced much of the cultural phenomena presented by these institutions. The Rothko Chapel opened in 1971. The Menil Collection museum in 1987. The Cy Twombly Pavilion museum in 1995, and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel museum in 1997. The Byzantine Fresco Chapel closed in March 2012. Kevin was there for three of the openings as well as the Opening of the Menil Collection at the Grand Palais in Paris 1984.

PARIS OPENING OF THE MENIL COLLECTION 1984

Welcome to Kevin Cassidy Blogs under development. Featured pdf downloads include selections from my Opening of the Menil Collection In Paris, 1984 and The Menil Collection Museum Opening, 1987 . The photo compositions are saved in pdf format from PowerPoint presentations. The slide … Continue reading

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ROTHKO CHAPEL

The Rothko Chapel and the Rothko Chapel Paintings in Houston, Texas were commissioned by John and Dominique de Menil as a permanent installation of an artists work and as a contemporary ecumenical sanctuary and opened to the public in February, … Continue reading

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DELPHI AND CAPE SOUNION

The Temple of Apollo at Delphi and the Theater there.  Some say Dionysus also stayed there and that it may have been a double temple dedicated to both Apollo and Dionysus.  The philosopher Frederick Nietzsche wrote a famous essay The … Continue reading

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JERUSALEM THE OLD CITY

The Old City of Jerusalem is city within the modern city of Jerusalem.   It occupied the European imagination for centuries.  The quest to liberate and then hold Jerusalem was a major focus of many wars – called the Crusades – … Continue reading

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MENIL MUSEUM OPENING JUNE 1987

The Menil Collection Museum in Houston, Texas,  is celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2012.  It opened in June of  1987.  The Menil Collection Museum was commissioned by Dominique de Menil and the Menil Foundation.  A Museum for their collection had … Continue reading

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