Musea E-mail Club #72

[Tom Hendricks]

The new Meadows Museum building, showcasing their collection of
Spanish art, is open on the SMU campus here in Dallas and I finally got
a chance to go see it.
It's easy to find - just go in the main road off Mockingbird and look
for the first red brick building on the right. I've seen the collection
before and I always thought it had better works - though far fewer, than
the bigger Dallas Museum of Art. Well DMA has improved a lot lately, but
the new building has also helped the Meadows collection, by showing more
paintings. The galleries are upstairs with the bulk of paintings on the
one side and new exhibits and some drawings and prints (way too few
though - considering they own Goya's great series of etchings) on the
other.
They have my all time favorite painting, and arguably the best
portrait ever, the Sibyl with Tabula Rasa, by Velazquez (1648), plus a
piece or 2 by most of the other Spanish greats including Murrillo, El
Greco, Goya, Miro, Picasso, and some lesser known names that displayed
as much quality and technique as those named, but less innovation.
It is one fancy building and there is nothing that isn't some type
of marble, or gold, or something valuable in the floors, stairs, etc. I
liked the fact that you can see the entire range of Spanish art from
medieval to modern in one hour or so. It's just the right size for an
afternoon at a museum. And if you go look at the Sibyl for me!
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In corp. art/media world watch for these things; May is sweeps month.
Expect a lot of hooker expose on local news.
ALSO watch for a writers strike in Hollywood coming soon? ALSO each
year about this time the gas companies raise the price of gas because of
summer vacation driving, and each year the media acts like it is the
first time they've done it. It is sort of a game like Lucy holding the
football for Charlie Brown. The media asks why the gas prices are up.
The gas companies can't say they do it every year, so they say something
like 'Someone sneezed in Venezuela, and the media reports it. ALSO there
has been no report yet that I've seen on why protesters were protesting
free trade. The media has not been fair on this issue at all -
media-ocre!
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In my mail
e and snail
CONTESSA'S TOME #6 the history zine - this time about D D Palmer who was
the first chiropractor - fascinating!
THE ZINE PROJECT teacher John Doyle lets' his class make zines. This
time they split into teams and 34 students made 17 zines. I like the
freedom he's giving his students
And a reader from KAZAKHSTAN , saw Musea and wanted to trade postcards
for issues. I said sure, and he sent me a cigar shaped box full of art
cards from the former Soviet Union. You know those you buy for $1 each.
There must be 100 in here! Wow what a nice surprise!
Also stuff from local regulars , Valley House Gallery, Forbidden
Gallery, and
Hell's Half Acre by Paul Riddell http://www.hpoo.com which is
always good reading

Art S Revolutionary, (Tom Hendricks, editor of the zine Musea
http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com