I Want My DMA TV

A recent addition to the Museum’s Web site is DMA TV, www.DallasMuseumofArt.tv.  This site stores a variety of multimedia content, like podcasts and videos, that relate to works of art in the Museum’s collection and special exhibitions, as well as public programs and community projects.   I am continually surprised by the treasure trove of information that is available and found a few gemstones that I think you might like as well.  

Interviews

• Kevin Tucker, The Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, talks about the Louis Comfort Tiffany Windows
• Dr. Anne Bromberg, The Cecil and Ida Green Curator of Ancient and Asian Art, talks about the Coffin of Horankh
• Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, was a special guest during the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition

Videos

• Clip from the Hans Namuth film of Jackson Pollock creating his Action Paintings
• Performance by David “Fathead” Newman during Jazz Under the Stars

Podcasts

• Free Podcasts of  Arts & Letters Live programs can be downloaded using iTunes

Just recently, more interviews with artists, dancers, musicians, actors, and scholars have been added to DMA TV in relationship to the new exhibition All the World’s a Stage:  Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts.  This site is growing by leaps and bounds!

Happy watching and listening!

Until next time…

Jenny Marvel

Manager of Learning Partnerships with Schools

Rhea Joins N.E.R.D.

MTVNews.com:

Pharrell’s falsetto can only go so far. So he, along with the rest of the N.E.R.D. troops, recruited a new singer into the fold for their fourth album, Instant Gratification, slated to be released sometime in 2010.

The addition of Rhea, introduced to the band by a mutual friend, has the producer promising some lofty things for the foursome’s next project.

“Musically, we’re just somewhere else [with her],” Pharrell told MTV News. “The music is now very 3-D. It’s something you have to hear. But you’ll see. We’re definitely somewhere else. I want to leave that impact moment for when you purchase your download and you purchase your CD. The music is very three-dimensional. We’re just really excited. We feel like N.E.R.D. has always been the punks of hip-hop and the outcasts of alternative music — just a little different. But this time, we’re taking no prisoners.”

The Neptunes artist explained Rhea might be petite, at just 5-foot-4, but her booming voice and her classical background blend in with the genre-bending trio of N.E.R.D., also including Chad Williams and Shae.

“Now you have this little Tinkerbell that’s just stepped in and has been amazing,” he said. “It’s made it a fun process. We can go in so many more directions, because we have the vocal support.”

Rhea, a Toronto native of Guyanese descent, met the fellas only once in person before she auditioned for them via Skype. She sang “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” Her rendition impressed the guys, and she soon found herself signing on.

“It was just a really good time,” she said of meeting the collective. “When I came in there and I met them and they heard me sing, I think they decided it was the right fit.”

“Don’t be bashful,” Pharrell chimed in. “We lost our minds. We thought she was great.”