"One of the protest signs said 'When Did Blasphemy Become Art?' and I just had to have a chuckle."
Dallas museum of art
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The Dallas Museum of Art and Dallas’ Latino Center for Leadership Development have partnered on an interesting goal: to set the Guinness World Record for the biggest gathering of people dressed like…
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On May 28, the Dallas Museum of Art will open the exhibition Visions of America: Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art. The show is made up of more than…
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This Sunday the Dallas Museum Art will kick off its new film series, The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. This is an excellent companion to the DMA’s current show México 1900–1950: Diego…
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The show begins to tell the story of Modernism in a new way, and it's one we all would benefit from knowing.
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DMA Art Fair Purchases Are in Addition to the Rare Early Pollock it Got Last Week
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIn addition to all the work Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) bought at the Dallas Art Fair the other day, the DMA announced that it had just acquired Jackson Pollock’s…
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Fort Worth-based artist Christopher Blay, who may be better known as his alter ego Frank Artsmarter, will soon be artist-in -residence at the Dallas Museum of Art’s Center for Creative…
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The compelling Nancy Grossman (b. 1940) is perhaps best known for her meticulously hand-made leather masks and torsos. She made these two in the late 1960s, well before Pulp Fiction,…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on what to see over Spring Break, whether there are any bands left at SXSW, and naked people at the museum.
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The Dallas Museum of Art is now accepting applications for three different awards that will dole out more than $10,000 to artists living in working in Texas and the southwestern…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the wisdom of a nonagenarian artist, the first show at the DMA we’ve been psyched about in a while, and the lure of artists being intentionally opaque.
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Sam Gilliam Painting is Among DMA’s First Acquisitions Under New Director
by Glasstireby GlasstireOne of Sam Gilliam’s “Drape” paintings, this one called Leaf from 1970, is one of the Dallas Museum of Art‘s first acquisitions under its new director Agustín Arteaga. The painting is acrylic…
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Top Five Special Edition! Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on the top five art venues that have made it into our weekly Top Five.
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Today the Dallas Museum of Art announced that it has named its new Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Anna Katherine Brodbeck. (Though the title is still a bit confusing: under…
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Just as the Dallas Museum of Art opens Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt (members-only preview dates are October 6-8), Istanbul honored one of its most famed felines with a…
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Nothing in a painting is photographically exact, because physically it can’t be, and that’s where the magic happens.
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This week Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees count down the top five museums in Texas.
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Yesterday the Dallas Museum of Art announced the launch of its own mobile-friendly app—a dedicated and varied way for visitors to interact with the museum’s collections and exhibitions. Remember: the…
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In the aftermath of the Dallas police shootings last week, Gavin Delahunty, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, was searching for works in the museum’s collection that…
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The Dallas Museum of Art went on the hunt for a new director last fall when it parted ways with Maxwell Anderson. Today it announced the appointment of Dr. Agustín Arteaga to…