Museum Tower’s No-Louver Study Not Good Enough: Claims Nasher Canceled Excuse Meeting
According to a media statement released today by Dallas’ Museum Tower, David Haemisegger, President of the Board of Trustees of the Nasher Sculpture Center cancelled a Tuesday meeting to discuss attaching retractable louvers to the outside of the tower as a solution to the ongoing glare problem. No wonder: the results of the Museum Tower’s [...]
Dallas Morning News Sketches of Non-solutions Add Zest to Ongoing Museum Tower Follies
The Dallas Morning News sees no resolution in sight for the ongoing Nasher-Museum Tower Glare-Off, but has sketches of some supposedly serious proposals for technological solutions, including the much-touted louvers; a wheel-like giant archi-sculpture with unfurling parasols that tower officials say would be an “artistic addition” to the site, but Nasher officials say was rejected [...]
Sightings: Erick Swenson at the Nasher
Before I entered the gallery to see Erick Swenson’s Sightings at the Nasher, a guard politely stopped me at the door and warned me that there was work in the space that was a bit grotesque and perhaps not for the faint of heart. I thanked her, told her I was prepared to face the [...]
Should Texas Museums Have Artist Board Members?
Noting the flap over the departure of the artist-members of LA MOCA’s board of directors, D Magazine‘s Peter Simek asks if the Dallas museums ought to consider getting some. Simek points out that audience-centric museums need not suck, using Nicholas Serota’s Tate Modern as an example, and crediting Serota’s use of input from contemporary artists [...]
Nasher Makes Sexy with Ernesto Neto: Cuddle on the Tightrope
Ernesto Neto (pronounced NEH-toh) may have created the world’s cleverest aphrodisiac: it takes a while to realize Cuddle on the Tightrope is a journey into a vagina, but as soon as you’re done, you know you want to keep entering. By that standard, the Nasher’s new game of mounting sensual, experiential installations, started last year [...]