Another party pic

 Our friend Charles was also at the Blanton Party. 

Strings for the Fling

 A string quartet was playing some nice tunes at the recent Blanton Museum party. 

Tulips outside the Blanton Museum

We attended a party to celebrate these new, visually interesting "Tulips"

outside the Blanton Museum the other night. 

 

Caution!

This large reproduction from a Medieval Manuscript invites visitors into the Medieval Monsters show at the Blanton Museum. It's pretty amazing the depictions of monsters as cautionary tales or critters to be slain.

Command of color

I loved sitting there at the Blanton Museum, trying to figure out how the artist chose all these colors in such an array.

Stairway to heaven?

Another striking piece of artwork at the Blanton Museum.

In the net

Loved this assemblage that shows how over time the world collects up society's wasted material.

Says it all

This painting depicts in graphic form the underpinnings of society -- the people who keep fancy museums and buildings open for the affluent strata of society to enjoy.

Fixing up

I love taking photos in museums. Here you see a man with an unorthodox outfit. He looks like part of the exhibition. 

Sound in the Space

Here you see Jeff Lofton doing a trumpet solo in the Blanton Museum. It was part of the Sound Space exhibition. 

Art on the fly

This text was being generated at a rapid clip the other day at SoundSpace in the Blanton. 

Concerto for Gamelan and Orchestra

The multi-cultural music was terrific at the annual SoundSpace event at the Blanton on a recent Sunday. 

SoundSpace

Adrian Ruiz playing at Blanton Museum's SoundSpace. (This event was a tribute to Alice Coltrane.) Yesterday's spectator was listening to Adrian.

Listening in Fashion

This woman was wearing a carefully crafted outfit for the Blanton Museum SoundSpace Event

Blanton Atrium

The Blanton Museum atrium has had the installed artwork Falling Waters (fragment seen here, the blue and white tiles climbing the wall) for a long time. A recent addition to the space is this organic sculpture. I like this particular shot of the two with the stairs and lighting/sky lights of the atrium.

From Ancient to Modern

A recent exhibit at the Blanton Museum brought this ancient sculpture into juxtaposition with two modern museum-goers. I just liked the composition.

Moderno room

The Blanton Museum has a fine exhibition up about the modernist styles that came to Latin America in the post WWII era. This example of a room with nice decor is interesting to see. 

Listening

During the Blanton Museum SoundSpace event people move around at will. On the staircase at one point these listeners seemed to be choreographing their movements while someone passed them on the stairs to take up a different position.

The main event

This extremely avant musical piece was performed over an hour by players who had their parts governed by digital clocks posted where they could see them. It was mesmerizing.

Mutual music

These musicians had a strange hookup to play each others' horns.