Francisco Moreno’s The Chapel and Accompanying Works at Erin Cluley Gallery, on view through May 19, is a classical barrel-vaulted building constructed inside the gallery.
“Where are you going?” asked Dallas’s favorite classical DJ Amy Bishop, as I was heading straight into Meyerson Symphony Center, which would have been great had I been planning to go see Jaap van Zweden in one of his final concerts.
Thank goodness, because one thing our arts communities do not need is another wannabe dictator (ditto the world for that matter). Give us a little room for curiosity, however, and we’ll happily run with it.
Past exhibitions by Kamrooz Aram have carried such provocative titles as Unstable Paintings for Anxious Interiors and Ornament for Indifferent Architecture.
The artist, Josiah McElheny, working with cosmologist David Weinberg, creates a gallery-sized installation, consisting of five hanging chromed-metal, transparent hand-blown glass and light sculptures.
The artistic process rarely garners as much attention and appreciation as the finished masterpiece, but shaded charcoal figures, sculpted wax half-forms and rough wooden models–the staggered steps along the way to final creation–have their own magnificent beauty.
While it is an integral component of the art ecosystem, the role of the collector tends to be overlooked in the context of the museum, at least as far as the audience is concerned; the objects in a museum can seem like they’ve always been there, their presence unquestioned.