Open house at Space 301
Thursday, February 28th, 2008I took a quick tour of the new digs for Space 301 this afternoon. There’s still lots of construction going on, the dust and lack of elevators played havoc on my emphysema but curator Clayton Colvin was pretty patient with me.
The place is going to be really nice when it gets going but I still feel a twinge of nostaglia for the old industrial feel of the its original incarnation. This will be nice but more suburban and polished like the museum in the park. I don’t want to give too much away as this will all be in my next column.
Shortly before heading for the gallery, I sat in my parked car alongside a Jackson Street curb under the shade of trees in Cathedral Square as an NPR interview with the late William F. Buckley, Jr. finished. I saw a hawk deftly sweep up a dove not 30 feet away and carry it to a tree branch right above me as the patrician voice of the “father of the modern conservative movement” drifted from the radio. The scant pedestrians strolling ten feet below were oblivious as the raptor picked at his lunch.
Nothing like metaphors in the afternoon.