Showing posts with label Nasher Sculpture Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nasher Sculpture Center. Show all posts
Friday, September 30, 2011
Downtown Dallas Cultural Events Calendar: October 2011
Enjoy the monthly Downtown Dallas Cultural Events Calendar for October 2011, just in time as the weather cools off! Please find the calendar below. It list events for the Downtown Dallas area and its environs. Enjoy it, pass it on, use it!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Events: Art on the Rocks!
It's been a busy summer! For those of you who kept up with my posts from last summer, then you know that the art world shuts down after Art Basel. However, the summer is great time for museums to get events going for tourists and stay-cationers. As a Dallasite, I have been lucky enough to attend the free Jazz Under the Stars nights at the Dallas Museum of Art and also some of the Nasher Sculpture Center's Til Midnight (the latter of which I will discuss more in a future post).
As with most of you, I recently took some summer trips, one of which was to Birmingham, Alabama. Thanks to a visit to the Nasher Sculpture Center from the Curator of Education at the Birmingham Museum of Art, I decided to visit the website and see what the museum had to offer. I am glad I did! Not only is the museum free, but it also has a fun event called Art on the Rocks! Seeing as my sister recently moved to Birmingham, I took the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone- visit her and attend the Art on the Rocks event- not to mention loading up on some delicious Southern cuisine.
Although Art on the Rocks is not a free event, $20 for non-members and $10 for members, it was worth every penny. I dragged my sister to the event that was promoting the upcoming exhibition Who Shot Rock and Roll set to open on June 24th. I missed the photography exhibition, but did enjoy the themed event's which featured dueling DJs, live graffiti on the Museum walls, and a funky band. Art on the Rocks caters to 20-30 somethings, which is rare in a museum world that has been focusing on families. The museum had (free) appetizer and (at cost) drink stations littered around the forum and outdoor sculpture arena. Another activity, of which I took part, was having museums patrons 'graffiti' on the sculpture pit walls alongside the real graffiti artists. Please enjoy the pictures of this and other highlights from the Birmingham Museum of Art's Art on the Rocks event.
As with most of you, I recently took some summer trips, one of which was to Birmingham, Alabama. Thanks to a visit to the Nasher Sculpture Center from the Curator of Education at the Birmingham Museum of Art, I decided to visit the website and see what the museum had to offer. I am glad I did! Not only is the museum free, but it also has a fun event called Art on the Rocks! Seeing as my sister recently moved to Birmingham, I took the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone- visit her and attend the Art on the Rocks event- not to mention loading up on some delicious Southern cuisine.
Although Art on the Rocks is not a free event, $20 for non-members and $10 for members, it was worth every penny. I dragged my sister to the event that was promoting the upcoming exhibition Who Shot Rock and Roll set to open on June 24th. I missed the photography exhibition, but did enjoy the themed event's which featured dueling DJs, live graffiti on the Museum walls, and a funky band. Art on the Rocks caters to 20-30 somethings, which is rare in a museum world that has been focusing on families. The museum had (free) appetizer and (at cost) drink stations littered around the forum and outdoor sculpture arena. Another activity, of which I took part, was having museums patrons 'graffiti' on the sculpture pit walls alongside the real graffiti artists. Please enjoy the pictures of this and other highlights from the Birmingham Museum of Art's Art on the Rocks event.
Thornton Dial, Nobody Knows What Go On Behind the Jungle, 1989
Paint and Mixed Media
As a preview of what's to come:
Inside of the BMA, with a Chihuly sculpture.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
New Year, New art:SAGE Resolutions
Happy New Year!
I know, I know, it's a little delayed. However, there is good reason for that. Why, you may ask? Well, this year started out with a bang for me.
For starters, I became the editor and remained a contributing writer for Berlin Art Link. If you haven't taken the time to look into Berlin Art Link then you are missing out on having the facts on the Berlin art scene at your fingertips. If you want to find out more about what Berlin Art Link is, I will have an interview posted later this month.
In other great news, I was hired for a temporary position at the Nasher Sculpture Center. The Nasher is one of my favorite museums in Dallas both because of it's amazing collection and because of the wonderful architecture of the building and sculpture garden. The building and garden were designed by Renzo Piano and Peter Walker, respectively. Renzo Piano also happened to design the Fondation Beyeler in Basel.
I am also settling into living in the United States again after being away for nearly three years. It is kind of exciting "discovering" Dallas again. So much has changed, especially in the arts. So I plan to focus the month of February on the renovation of the arts district and the proliferation of the art scene in Dallas.
Be on the lookout for these and all other posts in the future!
I know, I know, it's a little delayed. However, there is good reason for that. Why, you may ask? Well, this year started out with a bang for me.
For starters, I became the editor and remained a contributing writer for Berlin Art Link. If you haven't taken the time to look into Berlin Art Link then you are missing out on having the facts on the Berlin art scene at your fingertips. If you want to find out more about what Berlin Art Link is, I will have an interview posted later this month.
In other great news, I was hired for a temporary position at the Nasher Sculpture Center. The Nasher is one of my favorite museums in Dallas both because of it's amazing collection and because of the wonderful architecture of the building and sculpture garden. The building and garden were designed by Renzo Piano and Peter Walker, respectively. Renzo Piano also happened to design the Fondation Beyeler in Basel.
I am also settling into living in the United States again after being away for nearly three years. It is kind of exciting "discovering" Dallas again. So much has changed, especially in the arts. So I plan to focus the month of February on the renovation of the arts district and the proliferation of the art scene in Dallas.
Be on the lookout for these and all other posts in the future!
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