art surfed the one less travelled by.
- Robert Frost
QUOTE: "To create something all your own, you gotta not be like somebody else." - Bo Diddley
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: The 2 children's book awards this year are: Newbery Medal for writing, to Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis; and the Caldecott Medal for illustration to Joseph Had a Little Overcoat- Simms Taback. We salute both.
NEW GALLERY: The always exciting Forbidden Books & Videos has opened a Gallery around the corner with the first exhibit, Sugar Sparkled and Sickly Sweet sort of comic book high art. Cool! ... In other art news, Mona has her own room. The Louvre will, within the next 3 years, be giving DaVinci's portrait, Mona Lisa her own room to alleviate the crowding.
FASHION FAUX PAS: Now you can buy designer Band-Aids, 3 for $8 with patterns such as: fake lizard, denim, patent leather, plaid etc. And if that's not pretentious enough, listen to their names: Debutante, Geisha, Boyfriend, Disco, Prowl, etc. By the way what is the pet name of your Band-Aid.? (In Style/Mar)
CITY PLANNING: Musea calls for some progressive city planning such as these 2 ideas: A walkway (pedestrian street without cars) that connects downtown with Fair Park. Also bus service between the 2. Musea also calls for a city wide contest for a Pegasus sculpture (Dallas's official symbol) to be permanently exhibited at FP.
miniQUIZ: What performer got the most curtain calls? Answer later.
WE REMEMBER THE PASSING OF: these artists: Horst P. Horst, elegant fashion photographer / Roger Vadim, director of God Created Women / Shirley Hemphill, actress from What's Happening TV show / Joseph Heller, author of WW2 classic novel Catch 22 / Craig Claiborne, cooking critic for the NYT / Clayton Moore, the Lone Ranger / Charlie Byrd, unamplified jazz and classical guitarist that turned Stan Getz on to Bossa Nova / Hedy Lamarr, screen Goddess / George C. Scott, actor: Dr. Strangelove was my favorite role of his / Madeline Kahn, comedic actress Young Frankenstein / Art Farmer, jazz trumpeter..
TV: May is one of the 3 sweeps month. Look for rare good TV. Musea salutes Mad TV as having some really great sketch characters / We NEVER WATCH Springer, but if we did we'd actually LIKE his "Final Thoughts" philosophy, it always seems to make a lot of sense./ Some ad firm is using Jimi Hendrix's version of the Star Spangled Banner (recorded at Woodstock) to sell "POP TARTS". They win the Chump of the Month award for pure scuminess.
FILM Quote: (the Corp. Art studios) have destroyed the ability of the American consumer to find decent movies. If you go to a movie theater, you get baby food. You don't get challenged, you don't get provoked, you don't get satisfied. Lloyd Kaufman, pres. of Troma Studios.
MODERN ART Quote: "The practitioners and admirers of modern art are so tightly ensconced in their ivory tower that ordinary people rarely pay any attention to the art at all." Norman J. Olson.
CAMP CHAMP: We salute Dallas photographer Carolyn Brown who challenged her photography students to find and click shots of Fair Park. The photo - documentary that came out of this project is not only great art, but a legacy of the Park at the turn of the millennium. It was on exhibit at the Hall Of State till 3/12/00. ...
miniQuiz answer was, Luciano Pavarotti with 162 curtain calls!
THEATER: Musea recommends the site: www. Dramex.org , Drama Exchange, "The Drama Exchange is a web resource for playwrights, producers and anybody interested in plays. We aim to promote a place where playwrights can make their plays available, and where producers and readers can look to find plays uploaded here by the playwrights." ... In other net news. Musea now has all 3 parts of our Musea Guide to the Best Movies, plus a double album's worth of MP3's by Hunkasaurus on the Musea website. You come by soon!
QUOTE: When creative people are given an opportunity, it's like the desert getting rain - it blooms overnight! - Art S Revolutionary.
HAIKU STYLE ERROR MESSAGES: by Carol Taylor Griffin (computer-ease): A file that big? / It might be very useful. / But now it is gone. /// You step in the stream, / but the water has moved on. / This page is not here. ///
ENDER: This excerpt from a speech by Stephen Bertman, Prof. of Classics, Univ. Of Windsor, Ontario titled Greek Epic: Everywhere we go we are oppressed with urgency ... speed discourages us from thought and reflection by denying us perspective. Instead it gives us the exhilaration of sensory stimulation. It would be economically counterproductive in fact, even subversive, if too many people examined the unquestioned premises upon which our society is built. Instead we are kept moving, our velocity sustained by corporate interests that profit from our addiction to speed. The philosopher Socrates once said, "A life that cannot be questioned isn't worth living."
Reports gathered by: Alden Scott Crow & Musea. Stay tuned - and till next time...
