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‘Cool’ brings in the crowds at the Blanton
The ‘Birth of the Cool’ exhibit is drawing in the crowds at the Blanton Museum of Art.
The survey of all things California cool is bringing in more than 4,000 visitors a week, almost double the museum’s average attendance of the previous few months, museum officials say.
Take your time with this exhibit. Re-visit several times — it’s worth it. There’s much to see and all of it is wonderfully groovy. Leave time to watch the brilliant film and animation shorts, especially the artsy experiments of husband-and-wife creative team Charles and Ray Eames whose singular style of furniture and household objects epitomizes mid-century modernism.
The Blanton exhibit runs through May 17. See www.blantonmuseum.org for info.
And don’t forget the April 8 screening of ‘Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman’ a documentary by Austin filmmaker Eric Bricker. Bricker trains his lens on the seminal career of the 97-year-old Schulman, the photographer whose seamless images helped define midcentury modernism in America. Bricker will be on hand for a post-screening Q-and-A. The movie screens at the Alamo Ritz, 320 E. Sixth St. at 7 p.m.
IMAGES: Top: ‘Birth of the Cool’ installation. Photo by Rick Hall, courtesy Blanton Museum of art. Bottom: ‘Case Study House #21,’ by Julius Schulman.
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