Grace Museum in Abilene will be the first pilot museum to implement the Friends program that the Dallas Museum of Art initiated in January 2013. Friends is a free program…
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Next week, famed Texan author Larry McMurtry will saunter into Dallas to speak at the Dallas Museum of Art as part of Arts and Letters Live, where he will discuss his…
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Dallas Museum of Art Appoints Director of Technology and Digital Media
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekRobert Stein, Deputy Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, announced yesterday that Shyam Oberoi has been appointed as the Director of Technology and Digital Media. Oberoi is currently the…
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While Some Islamic Art is in Jeopardy, the DMA is Entrusted with Major Private Collection
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will soon receive one of the world’s largest private holdings of Islamic art on a long-term loan (for 15 years, and it’s renewable). The…
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In 2007, when Dallas art collector (and Dallas Museum of Art trustee) Marguerite Hoffman wanted to quietly sell a Rothko painting, she arranged the transaction through a private dealer and,…
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Anonymous Donor Gives DMA $9 Million to Stay Free and Digitize Collection
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) today announced an anonymous gift of $9 million over three years to ensure free general admission to the DMA and enable the Museum to…
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The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has received a $450,000 National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS). The grant will go towards spreading its “Museum’s…
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DMA Appoints New Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonKimberly L. Jones has been appointed Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art, announced today by Director Maxwell L. Anderson. Dr. Jones will…
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The Dallas Museum of Art is covering all the bases in presenting the city’s art history. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, they (and the Amon…
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There are many projects, events, and exhibitions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. (Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and…
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In conjunction with the exhibition DallasSITES: Charting Contemporary Art, 1963 to Present, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will screen the film Dallas Art City. The film, directed by Colby…
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The Dallas Museum of Art recently named Margot Perot as board chair, replacing the outgoing Deedie Potter Rose, who has served as a DMA trustee for a quarter century and…
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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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Oak Cliff Artists Celebrate Texas Counterculture History
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonDeveloped to coincide with the DMA’s DallasSITES project, which surveys 50 years of contemporary art in Dallas, the exhibition Made in Oak Cliff features the early ’70s work of the…
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Loren Mozley: Structural Integrity at the DMA
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisLoren Mozley, “Winter Fields,” 1948. Oil on canvas, overall: 24 x 30 in. Collection of Susan and Claude Albritton III Though Loren Mozley’s impact is most strongly felt in Austin,…
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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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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 a shot at becoming an…
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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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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 though the orb-carrying savior won’t…