Maxwell L. Anderson, former Dallas Museum of Art director, who left last fall to take a position as Director of Grant Programs at the New Cities Foundation (NFC), a nonprofit…
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It was announced today that Maxwell Anderson, director of the Dallas Museum of Art, is stepping down to become the Director of Grant Programs (Director of Grant Programs, really?) at the New Cities…
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We’re closing in on the opening day of Art Everywhere, the nation-wide public art initiative (modeled after a successful UK program of the same name) that will put the images…
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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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DMA Announces Intriguing Museum Priorities: Art, Scholarship, and Conservation
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhile LACMA’s in-house restaurant recently launched a 45-page “Tasting Water” menu and hired a “water sommelier,” the Dallas Museum of Art is actually taking over half of its atrium restaurant…
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When Maxwell Anderson joined the Dallas Museum of Art in 2012, he brought his wife of 17 years, former actress and entrepreneur Jacqueline Buckingham Anderson, with him. The couple added…
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Anderson and Rawlings Costar Again! Dallas to Host Global Cultural Districts Network
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonMaxwell Anderson, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art, and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings have announced that Dallas will be the site of the 2014 New Cities Summit,…
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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 names of people you’d want…
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Who’s Got Time to Curate With All These Living Artists Everywhere? Dallas Museum Of Art Promotes Jeffrey Grove To New Position As Senior Curator Of Special Projects & Research
Jeffrey Grove, the DMA’s Senior Curator of Contemporary Art has been re-purposed; his new title is Museum’s Senior Curator of Special Projects & Research, a new position described as involving…
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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 facebook page on April 9.…
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Leave it to the NY Post to cover the glam reception of Cindy Sherman in celebrity-conscious Dallas. Oddly, the Post piece features a straightforward photo of Sherman from Getty Images:…
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Sunday’s Dallas Morning news carried an op-ed piece by Dallas Museum of Art Director Maxwell Anderson, titled Giving Back Art: How Museums See It. The piece defines the “alloy of…
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D Magazine’s Peter Simek sums up the dramatic occurrences in the Dallas Art scene for 2013 without resorting to tiresome to write , but love-able to read end-of year lists,…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the inaugural DMA Art Ball Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Dallas Art Fair. Maxwell L. Anderson (Director, DMA), Frances Colpitt (Chair…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has scraped together a sizable pile of money from donors and made what Director Maxwell Anderson calls “a very reasonable offer” for a painting which…
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In a post yesterday in CultureGrrl, blogger Lee Rosenbaum nitpicks the new free-admission policy at the Dallas Museum of Art. In support of her fears that dropping admission charges will…
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The Dallas Museum of Art announced yesterday that it will return to free general admission in January 2013 and launch an unusual new free-membership plan. The new program, DMA Friends…
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DMA Hires Al Khemir to Promote Global Islamic Art Exchanges, MFAH Announces Its Islamic Art Partnership and Loan of 85-carat Engraved Emerald
The Dallas Museum of Art has appointed Sabiha Al Khemir, the founding director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, as the Museum’s first Senior Advisor of Islamic…
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DMA Director Maxwell Anderson was praised in the Dallas Morning News for his stance against blockbusters, his ethical transparency, and his positive attitude. The article, basically a collection of accolades…
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BlogEssayOp Ed
The Cost of Turnover, or how museums could pay more and spend less
by Claire Ruudby Claire RuudThere’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced Ned Rifkin as Director of…