Today the Dallas Museum of Art announced the appointment of both a new Deputy Director and a new Decorative Arts Senior Curator. Tamara Wootton-Forsyth, who has been with the museum…
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Dallas Museum of Art Announces New Acquisitions by Blanchard, Mondrian, and Bonnard
by Glasstireby GlasstireToday the Dallas Museum of Art announced three new acquisitions to its collection. The double-sided drawing, Farm Near Duivendrecht (recto) and The Sea (Ocean 2) (verso) (c. 1905–1914) by Piet Mondrian, and the oil-on-paper work, Woman with…
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"What happens in Texas is often more resolved and extreme than elsewhere."
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The Dallas Museum of Art has announced its upcoming Islamic Art Festival, subtitled The Language of Exchange, happening November 16-18. It’s a “three-day celebration exploring Islamic art and culture and the…
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In conjunction with the Dallas Museum of Art’s current sweeping print show Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints from the National Gallery of Art, the museum will host the Guerrilla Girls’ ‘Käthe Kollwitz’…
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Two weeks ago the Dallas Museum of Art hosted a Guinness Record costume contest for the most people dressed like Frida Kahlo. It was a bit controversial, but popular, too. It’s…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Charles Wylie, who served as the Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) for fifteen years, has been named Curator of Photography and New…
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The Dallas Museum of Art announced today the appointment of Nicole R. Myers as The Lillian and James H. Clark Curator of Painting and Sculpture. She starts on Feb. 29 and…
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Streets are blocked off and live music, food trucks, beer and more fill up the Dallas Arts District this Friday evening as the DMA, the Crow Collection, and the Nasher…
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Michael Craig-Martin, artist/former Goldsmith’s professor and so-called godfather of the YBAs, is on his way to Dallas for his big takeover of ten different venues. That’s hyperbolic, of course, but…
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The Dallas Museum of Art‘s conservation studio has restored a work by French baroque painter (called “the French Titian” by… some?) Jacques Blanchard. Zeus and Semele, his 17th-century oil painting, will go on view tomorrow in…
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As part of an initiative by still-new Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Gavin Delahunty, the DMA plans to originate more exhibitions of underrepresented artists, and in early 2015 the museum will…
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The annual meeting of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) is now underway in Dallas/Fort Worth. In between tours of area art collections, the country’s museum bosses are getting…
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When you live in a big city it seems like more planes, with their blinking red lights, cross the sky at night than stars. City lights drown out space lights,…