This is just plain cool: Dustin and the rest of the fine folks at the Modern have put together the time lapse video you see above, covering the installation of “The Collection and Then Some.” As Dustin writes at The Modern Blog:
The permanent collection has been up in first-floor galleries for a month now. Everything always looks so clean and crisp when the installation is complete, but the process of getting everything to that stage is a lot of work. We took some time lapse video of the crew installing four of the works on view right now and you can see some of the work that goes into installing a show.
Lots of great stuff this weekend, but I’d like to highlight the Brave Combo Holiday Dance Party tonight at McDavid Studio in Downtown. Everybody’s favorite atomic-powered polka rockers will be blowing the roof off the Studio, undoubtedly, with their always frighteningly-entertaining celebration of polka and somewhat off-kilter holiday tunes. Don’t miss it.
Scat Jazz Lounge | Map The Texas Gypsies – Friday – 9:00 PM Red Young and his Organ Trio – Saturday – 9:00 PM Trio Cubano – Sunday – 8:30 PM
Bass Performance Hall | Map Texas Ballet Theater: The Nutcracker – Friday – 8:00 PM Texas Ballet Theater: The Nutcracker – Saturday – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM Texas Ballet Theater: The Nutcracker – Sunday – 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM
McDavid Studio | Map Brave Combo Holiday Dance Party – Frday – 8:00 PM
The Flying Saucer | Map The Flavours – Friday – 9:30 PM Villain Vanguard – Saturday – 9:30 PM Mike Richardson – Sunday
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Big news this week is that today’s Modern ’til Midnight at, naturally, the Modern Art Museum. 6:00 PM to midnight. I’ll be there – and I recommend that you come as well. Modern ’til Midnight is always great.
Also, for the metalheads out there, local rockers No Scope (my friend Bobby being one of the guitarists) are having a release party for their new album, Hindsight 2012, at the Ridglea Theater on Friday.
Scat Jazz Lounge | Map Paul Unger and Friends – Friday – 9:00 PM Carla Norris-Hopkins Jazz Quartett – Saturday – 9:00 PM Trio Cubano – Sunday – 9:00 PM
McDavid Studio | Map “Dreaming of Birdland” – The UNT One O’Clock Lab Band’s Tribute to Maynard Ferguson – Friday – 7:30 PM “Dreaming of Birdland” – The UNT One O’Clock Lab Band’s Tribute to Maynard Ferguson – Friday – 10:00 PM
The Flying Saucer | Map The Flavours – Friday – 9:30 PM Villain Vanguard – Saturday – 9:30 PM Mike Richardson – Sunday
Some new additions this week – Curtain Call will now be listing events and exhibits at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame and the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.
Scat Jazz Lounge | Map Mack Goldsbury – Friday – 9:00 PM Hildegunn Gjedrem – Saturday – 9:00 PM Jam Session with Quamon Fowler – Sunday – 8:30 PM
Bass Performance Hall | Map Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Season Opening featuring Andre Watts, piano, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor – Friday – 7:30 PM Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Season Opening featuring Andre Watts, piano, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor – Saturday – 8:00 PM Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Season Opening featuring Andre Watts, piano, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor – Sunday – 2:00 PM
Bass Performance Hall | Map Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: The Mahler Cycle, Part II – Friday – 7:30 PM Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: The Mahler Cycle, Part II – Saturday – 7:30 PM Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: The Mahler Cycle, Part II – Sunday – 7:30 PM
The Flying Saucer | Map Radio Chaos – Friday – 9:30 PM Sittin’ Duck – Saturday – 9:30 PM Mike Richardson – Sunday
The new Fort Worth Museum Of Science And History is still under construction, but the renovated Omni Theater will reopen this weekend. The Omni has its own entrance now as a standalone building, so the construction on the new museum won’t interfere. Besides the new orange paint job, the Omni boasts a new digital sound system, enhanced lighting, and updated guest facilities. The theater will be showing three new IMAX films this weekend: Dinosaurs Alive!,Deep Sea, and Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs. Check Curtain Call below for show times.
No word just yet if the classic old pre-show helicopter flyover of Fort Worth will still be used. I’d like to see a newly recorded version of it to showcase the city as it stands now. Just as long as it still uses the same music it always has.
Ah, memories. I know I’ve got plenty of the Omni. I remember the many times I stood in that winding, descending ramp in line to the theater when I was a kid. I was there most often with my grandmother, back while I was growing up on a horse ranch out in Parker County. A trip to Fort Worth was always special, and doubly so when we’d go to the Omni. I remember seeing things like “Ring of Fire,” “The Living Sea,” and “Destiny In Space,” usually multiple times. Afterwards we’d go through the museum, and I always wanted to get some of that astronaut ice cream the gift shop sold (yes, I’ve always been a geek. I admit it.). Or alternately, sometimes we’d eat in the museum’s cafeteria, by those windows looking out into that courtyard that used to be there.
It’ll be good to have the Omni back in operation. I just hope they still sell astronaut ice cream.
Last Friday’s Modern ‘Til Midnight went off well, as always. Steph and I worked our way over a little after 7:30, which meant we got there just in time to enjoy the musical stylings of The Theater Fire. Having never heard these guys before, I must say I enjoyed their set very much. Their music is more or less unclassifiable, blending a wide variety of elements and instruments (mariachi horns, accordion, mandolin, etc.). They pretty much rock. I grabbed both their albums off iTunes the next day. (The dancing cowboy hippies that accompanied their set were entertaining, as well.)
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