This month, Yale publishes The Rothko Chapel: Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine, “the timeless words and inspired thoughts of Dominique de Menil, a woman whose life’s task was to inspire a better world.”

A book by Pamela G. Smart, Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection, is scheduled for January from Texas. Several books published by the Chapel are listed for sale on its website. Also:

• Bruce C. Webb, “Living Modern in Mid-Century Houston: Conserving the Menil House,” Journal of Architectural Education 62:1 (Sept. 2008), pp. 11-19 (Wiley; Ingenta)
• Wessel Stoker, “The Rothko Chapel Paintings and the ‘urgency of the transcendent experience,’” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 64:2 (2008), pp. 89-102
• Kristina Van Dyke, “The Menil Collection,” African Arts 40:3 (Autumn 2007), pp. 36-49
• Smart, “Possession: Intimate Artifice at the Menil Collection,” Modernism/Modernity 13:1 (Jan. 2006), pp. 765-785
• Sheldon Nodelman, The Rothko Chapel Paintings: Origins, Structure, Meaning (Texas, 1997)

Profiles include Martin Filler “The Real Menil,” The Magazine Antiques (2008) and Calvin Tomkins, “The Benefactor,” The New Yorker (1998).