Museum of Street Culture
Posted: 17 Feb 2017 09:28
This deal was almost toast, but the Presbyterians managed to save it. By the sound of it, Dallas is getting something truly special, that doesn't need all the civic boosters telling us over and over again how special it is.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2 ... 8-park-ave
I'm interested to follow potential bright ideas to the music scene in Dallas from the new spotlight this place will put on the history of music in Dallas. Western Swing lives on with the Rockabilly crowd but Jazz & Blues never seems to have returned, Badu being the monumental exception - 'cept this is "only" her home, not her music scene.... What would happen if the music students at UNT thought-on origins and mash-ups from the Bohemian Oompah, Mexican Conjunto, Western Swing and Deep Ellum Jazz & Blues. Maybe something new would come out of it.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2 ... 8-park-ave
A $2 million gift for Museum of Street Culture that's taking root in Dallas' historic 508 Park Ave.
by Robert Wilonsky, City Columnist
The years-in-the-making Museum of Street Culture in downtown Dallas is now $2.1 million closer toward raising the $18 million it needs to open its doors in 2018 ... the Moody Foundation is providing the sizable grant ... the Moody grant pushes the capital campaign just past the $10 million mark.
Designer Adrien Gardère, whose work includes the Louvre-Lens Museum in France and the renovation of the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, has also signed on to help design the museum.
... the museum has partnered with the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, Sony Music and others on various exhibitions and projects ... also talking with London-based Ace Records about installing a 78-rpm recording studio in 508 Park Ave.
I'm interested to follow potential bright ideas to the music scene in Dallas from the new spotlight this place will put on the history of music in Dallas. Western Swing lives on with the Rockabilly crowd but Jazz & Blues never seems to have returned, Badu being the monumental exception - 'cept this is "only" her home, not her music scene.... What would happen if the music students at UNT thought-on origins and mash-ups from the Bohemian Oompah, Mexican Conjunto, Western Swing and Deep Ellum Jazz & Blues. Maybe something new would come out of it.