1. “The Year of Heather” – that’s what Jerome Weeks proclaims 2010 at the Dallas Museum of Art over on Art and Seek. He’s referring to associate curator Heather MacDonald, the woman behind two shows currently on display at the DMA, Coastlines and The Lens of Impressionism, and she curated the well-received exhibition, The Mourners, which will arrive in Dallas in October and will feature 40 15th-century alabaster statues from the Musee des Beaux Arts in Dijon, France that are traveling from their native land for the first time. I wasn’t swooned with the end result of some of the curatorial tricks in Coastlines, but that doesn’t mean the effort wasn’t impressive or notably gutsy. It makes our city’s museum more interesting, and MacDonald is proving that she’s a big part of that.
2. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth blog offers an interesting reading of Andy Warhol’s piece The Last Summer (1986), (h/t A&S) part of the exhibition Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, which closes this weekend at the museum. You can also read James Michael Starr’s review of the show here. As he says, if you haven’t, go see it.
3. Two local music folks I have a good deal of appreciation for: Quick’s Hunter Hauk and The Kessler Theater’s Jeff Liles. Liles films many of the performances at his fledgling music venue in Oak Cliff (more about that in an upcoming print edition) so that people like Hunter can pass it on. Hunter Hauk says he fell in love with The Beaten Sea last Friday. He’s not the first – Dick Sullivan is also smitten. You can see video from their performance over on Hunter’s site, or after the jump.
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I was interested in this band after Sullivan’s piece but I was turned off when I saw another group of multi-instrumentalists with Americana roots and devil-may-care beards. (damn you Band of Horses/Bon Iver/Fleet Foxes for convincing people this growth is anti-establishment). It is a good thing their music is so freakin’ good…and the lovely yams that make an an appearance at the end of the video don’t hurt.
Carry on The Beaten Sea, carry on.
thanks for a shout out to two of our areas best: Hunter and Jeff Liles. Great guys, both of them. I love what Jeff is accomplishing at the Kessler. I’m sadly missing Doug Burr’s performance there Friday, as my oldest son graduates from college that weekend. Otherwise I’d be there.
the Beaten Sea performs that night at the Doublewide with with Fox & the Bird, & Dust Congress. Lots of good choices there.
Nice write up Peter.