Judging from attendance figures released on December 19, last year was the best ever for the Dallas Museum of Art. Out of a total of 641,000 visitors, 130,000 saw Van Gogh’s Sheaves of Wheat and Fast Forward : Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art . Runners up included Matisse: Painter as Sculptor , the first exhibition partnership between the DMA and the Nasher Sculpture Center , with 76,045 visitors and From the Ashes of Vesuvius, with nearly 60,000.