Memory, Mind, Matter

memory, mind, matter exhibition at SMU, Dallas

Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, TX — Eduardo Chillida — February 4 – June 3, 2018 —  Bruckner and Phillip Glass, Dallas Symphony Orchestra — February 3, 2017 How little sound can still be music? How little sound can remain in a concert hall and we, the silent audience, still hear music?  How low and few the notes keep us…

Frottages

Licktenstein rubbing Menil Collection

Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now Houston: Sept 11, 2015 – Jan 3, 2016 The deMenil Collection in Houston filled their whole current exhibition space with rubbings.  Frottages is the title in French, which makes the activity sound like something exotic enough to fill such a prominent museum. The Menil’s changing exhibition spaces…

Michaël Borremans – Dallas Museum of Art

post talk at Dallas Museum of Art between curator Jeffrey Grove and Michael Borremans

March 15, 2015 to July 5, 2015 As Sweet As It Gets Painter Borremans will develop like Simon Shama’s narrative of Rembrant – having mastered old master painting he’s going to let politics creep in: fish on the table – of the poor, an ugly begermister. What symbols, attitudes juxtapositions will he use? I don’t…