Dallas Contemporary presents first major US institutional exhibition by artist Rob Pruitt

DALLAS, TX.- Dallas Contemporary announces an exhibition featuring New York artist ROB PRUITT. The exhibition made specifically for Dallas Contemporary will be Pruitt’s first major institutional exhibition in the United States and his largest exhibition to date. Dallas Contemporary Executive Director, Peter Doroshenko said, “It’s an honour to be presenting the first institutional exhibition of Rob Pruitt’s work in the USA. Pruitt has been a seminal figure in the New York art scene since the late 1980s and to have a focused [...]

Major new body of etchings by British artist Ian Davenport at Alan Cristea Gallery

LONDON.- The Alan Cristea Gallery presents a major new body of etchings by British artist Ian Davenport in an exhibition entitled Prismatic, from 8 October until 12 November 2011. Ian Davenport was born in Kent in 1966. He is one of the now fabled generation of Young British Artists who participated in the seminal 1988 exhibition Freeze, in 1991 he was shortlisteded for the Turner Prize and in 1999 was a prize winner in the John Moores Exhibition. His work was part of [...]

Brooklyn Museum Announces First Large-Scale Exhibition of American Art of the 1920

BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum will present the first wide-ranging exploration of American art from the decade whose beginning and end were marked by the aftermath of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression. Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, which includes some 138 paintings, sculptures, and photographs by 67 artists, will be on view from October 28, 2011 through January 29, 2012 prior to a national tour. American life was dramatically transformed in the [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Publishes Ignite the Power of Art: Advancing Visitor Engagement in Museums

DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art is releasing an important new book that offers groundbreaking insight into how museum visitors connect with art and how museums can create enriching and engaging experiences for diverse audiences. Distributed by Yale University Press, Ignite the Power of Art: Advancing Visitor Engagement in Museums reveals findings from the DMA’s innovative seven-year research on the different preferences and behaviors of museum goers. The book documents how the Museum’s new understanding of its audience and community transformed [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Showcases Select Works by Contemporary Artists at Cowboys Stadium

DALLAS, TX.- In anticipation of Dallas’ first-ever Super Bowl in February 2011 at the new Cowboys Stadium, the Dallas Museum of Art presents an exhibition of contemporary work by the artists whose large-scale and site-specific commissions are on view at the stadium as part of the Dallas Cowboys Art Program. Drawn from the DMA’s collections and from select local private holdings, Big New Field: Artists in the Cowboys Stadium Art Program features some twenty works by the artists in this [...]

Sixty Works from the DMA Collection and Important Local Collectors Presented in a Dynamic New Context

DALLAS, TX.- This exhibition marks a return to celebrating the rich holdings that form the acclaimed collection of modern and contemporary art at the The Dallas Museum of Art. Re-seeing the Contemporary, which also includes important loans from local collections, features surprising works, such as Steve Wolfe’s Untitled (Piano Music for Erik Satie), alongside more familiar icons such as Jackson Pollock’s Cathedral. Others on view include John Chamberlain’s Dancing Duke and Alan Saret’s Deep Forest Green Dispersion, two dramatic works of metal [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Presents “Encountering Space”

DALLAS, TX.- On September 25, the Dallas Museum of Art presents Encountering Space, an exhibition exploring how artists shape and define space in their work, in its acclaimed Center for Creative Connections (C3). Featuring 11 key works drawn exclusively from the DMA’s encyclopedic collections—ranging from an ancient Peruvian clay vessel to Alberto Giacometti’s modern sculpture Three Men Walking—Encountering Space invites visitors of all ages to think about their own experiences in space and about how art defines space in both [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Discovers George Romney Painting in the Collections

DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art announced today the reattribution of the painting, Young Man with a Flute, to the artist George Romney. The work of art has been in the Museum’s collections for nearly 25 years and entered it in 1987 as part of a bequest of Mrs. Sheridan Thompson. At the time of the painting’s acquisition, the artist was unknown but the painting was thought to be by the American colonial era portrait painter Ralph Earl. Then [...]

New Exhibition of African Art at the Dallas Museum of Art

DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art will present a significant look at African visual culture through African Masks: The Art of Disguise, a new exhibition of approximately seventy works of art exploring the highly developed and enduring art of the African mask and revealing their timeless beauty, function, and meaning. Centered on the DMA’s distinguished collection of African art, acclaimed as one of the top five of its kind in the United States and which has set precedents since [...]

The Mourners, Bill Viola Exhibitions Opening at Saint Louis Art Museum

SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum opens The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy and Bill Viola: Visitation, two exhibitions presented in tandem this summer that reveal how different artists working more than 500 years apart have chosen to express the most fundamental human emotions. The Mourners, 40 extraordinary alabaster sculptures forming a funeral procession that adorned the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, depict personal responses to the Duke’s death. The exhibition brings [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Presents Its 2010 Awards to Artists

DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art announced its 2010 Awards to Artists. This year, sixteen artists received one of three awards. The Museum’s annual awards were established in 1980 by the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund and the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund to recognize exceptional talent and potential in young visual artists who show a commitment to continuing their artistic endeavors. The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund is awarded to artists between 15 and 25 years of [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Adds Six Works to Luc Tuymans Exhibition

DALLAS, TX.- The first U.S. retrospective of Belgian artist Luc Tuymans opens at the Dallas Museum of Art on June 6 and will be on view through September 5, 2010. The Los Angeles Times called this most comprehensive presentation of Tuymans’s work to date “remarkable,” with the Wall Street Journal proclaiming Luc Tuymans “one of the art world’s brightest stars.” This nationally acclaimed exhibition, jointly organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Wexner Center for the [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Awarded Significant Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art announced that it has received a major grant of $70,000 from the federal National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in their Access to Artistic Excellence category. This grant – the third prestigious award made to the Museum from the NEA since 2007 – will be used to fund the DMA-ECO project – Dallas Museum of Art-Exhibition Catalogs Online. Upon the project’s completion in 2012, the public will have an economical and eco-friendly method [...]

PDNB Gallery features Photographs by Dallas Photographer Bob Chilton

DALLAS, TX.- For the first time PDNB Gallery will be featuring photographs by Dallas photographer, Bob Chilton. Ranging from black and white to rich color, these photographs reflect imagery of maritime subjects. Chilton became a photographer many years ago, sharpening his skills in Dallas in labs with local photographers. His passion led to multi-projector slideshows of underwater imagery set to music. The arrival of the digital age took him to a new playing field. He has since set his sights [...]

Amon Carter Museum Announces New Exhibition Coordinator

FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum announced that Marci Driggers Caslin has joined its staff as the exhibition coordinator. In her new position, Caslin is responsible for coordinating permanent collection and traveling exhibitions presented at the museum. “Marci brings to the Carter vast experience in organizing museum art exhibitions,” says Director Ron Tyler. “We feel fortunate to have found someone with her expertise and experience, and are looking forward to working with her to present exhibitions that continue the [...]

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