Floor Staff and the Guest Experience @ the Dallas Museum of Art
If you’re anything like me, you probably keep a mental notebook of museums that seem to do consistently interesting work; it’s pages filled with the [...]
Big Bash at DMA Could Have Hurt Dallas Art Fair Numbers
Blouin Artinfo has a report on the Dallas Art Fair’s social side, grudgingly admitting that the fair, and the city “maybe — just maybe” has [...]
Jacqueline Buckingham and DMA Director Maxwell Anderson Announce Divorce on Facebook
In a joint letter to “family, friends, and colleagues,” glamorous Jacqueline Buckingham and DMA Director Maxwell Anderson announced their divorce on her website and her [...]
Leonardo Shakes the Dallas Money Tree, New Endowment Falls in DMA’s Lap
The Dallas Museum of Art’s splashy failed bid for Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi last year has given the money tree a hearty shake; even [...]
Trapezoidal Rock is Smoking Gun in DMA Inness Attribution
The Dallas Museum of Art decided last week that a painting given to the museum in 1931 as painter Asher B. Durand’s “In The Woods” [...]
Should Texas Museums Have Artist Board Members?
Noting the flap over the departure of the artist-members of LA MOCA’s board of directors, D Magazine‘s Peter Simek asks if the Dallas museums ought [...]
Dallas Two x Two For Aids and Art Event Raises $4.8 million for amfAR, DMA
The star-studded Two x Two For Aids and Art benefit, held at the Rachofsky House in Dallas raised a record-breaking $4.8 million for amfAR, The [...]
DMA woes unearthed by DMN, Details Remain Behind Online Pay Wall
The Dallas Morning News recently ran an unprecedented, front-page dissection of the Dallas Museum of Art’s financial woes by Michael Granberry. The piece, printed on [...]
Similar but Different #18: Cold as Ice
Officially the first day of summer is not until June 21st, but according to my thermostat and our electric bill it’s already too hot. Similar [...]
Bonnie Pitman interview: outgoing DMA director spews fluff, may return to making art
Dallas Art News’ Michael Roman snatched 15-20 minutes to interview outgoing DMA director Bonnie Pitman on her successes, failures and the future of the museum [...]
Dallas museum gets AAMC award for excellence for “The Mourners”
The Dallas Museum of Art has won an Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Excellence in the category of “Outstanding Small Exhibition” for The [...]
Concentrations 54: Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors
Curator Jeffrey Grove selected Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors for Concentrations 54 (both enjoy their first museum exhibition here at the DMA) because of the [...]
DMA director Bonnie Pitman to step down
The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that its director Bonnie Pitman is to step down next month due to health reasons. Olivier Meslay, the [...]
