Not everyone knows what to expect when they are invited to the Dallas Art Fair. One guest was expecting something more like the Fort Worth Arts Festival. Another went to the Deep Ellum Arts Festival by mistake but realized their error only when they couldn't find the correct booth number (the heavy metal music should have also … Continue reading Dallas Art Fair, 2017 Edition
Two exhibitions have brought Japanese art to the city of Dallas. It is a welcome change from shows like the staid flower paintings of Bouquets at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). These two exhibitions, one at DMA (Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga) joined The Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese … Continue reading East Meets Texas, Part 1–Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese Fashion at the Crow Collection of Asian Art
![By Lauren Meyers (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy](jpg/4497b-texas_state_hotel8407.jpg)
Senior Curator of European and American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, Oliver Meslay told a crowd of docents assembled at the museum Monday that it wasn't the easiest exhibit to put together, nor the most obvious. Rather the need for Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy … Continue reading Oil and Canvas, Art for Jack and Jackie
The Dallas Morning News is reporting that the city's museum of art is interested in purchasing a work by da Vinci. Dubbed "Spooky Jesus" by ArtInfo.com, the painting is currently in possession of the Dallas Museum of Art, but not on public view. Properly referenced as Christ as Salvator Mundi, it was re-attributed to the artist last July and … Continue reading Museum Could Pay $200 Million for “Spooky Jesus” by da Vinci
A Dallas Night, 1952 George Grosz, German Watercolor on paper Sheet dimensions: 21 x 13 3/4 in. (53.34 x 34.925 cm) Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, an anonymous gift of A. Harris and Company in memory of Leon A. Harris, Sr. The current exhibition George Grosz’s Flower of the Prairie at … Continue reading George Grosz’s Dallas in 50’s
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