The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas Museum of Art Publications)
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
After much toil, we’ve finally struck upon a splendid route for Sunday’s Tweed Ride. Given the regal nature of our attire, we felt a fitting ride must include stops at our fair city’s dandy new art structures. We’ll set off from the Grassy Knoll and make haste along Ross Avenue, naturally passing the Dallas Museum [...]
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Owned by the City of Arlington and developed by the Jones Family, Cowboys Stadium is the largest, most technologically advanced entertainment venue in the world. Features of the stadium include seating for 80,000 (expandable to 100,000), 300 luxury suites, club seating on multiple levels, and the Dallas Cowboys Pro Shop.
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Except in Dallas, that is, where the skyline made famous by the J.R. Ewing clan on television 30 years ago has undergone multiple transformations. None is more exciting than what opened here earlier this month, the new AT&T Performing Arts Center, a $354 million, 10-acre assemblage aligned on one central axis beside a bustling freeway at the edge of downtown. It constitutes the latest addition...
FrontBurner (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
If you didn’t go to last night’s Two by Two First Look Party, benefiting amfAR and the Dallas Museum of Art, here’s what you missed. Hint: Gavin Rossdale sang (meow), Christian Siriano showed off his Spring 2010 collection (fierce), and lots of people partied (natch). If you’d like to go to the Two by Two [...]
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Dallas has spent more than three decades piecing together an ambitious downtown "arts district" in the area around the Dallas Museum of Art. Last weekend the city opened two of the last big parts of the project, an opera house by Norman Foster and a theater by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus. I went [...]
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The $354 million AT&T Performing Arts Center here is a bold, Texas-sized symbol that Dallas has come of age as a cultural hub.
FrontBurner (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
On this beautiful afternoon, the D CEO crew ventured out to eat at Seventeen Seventeen at the Dallas Museum of Art. The cost was about three times greater than our meal at Harwood 609, but the quality was oh, let’s say seventeen times as good. As Glenn is demonstrating in this photo, we’re loving life [...]
Gandalf's Gallery (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
David Bates (born Dallas, Texas, 1952) became a noted realistic figure and narrative painter at a time when Abstract Expressionism was all-prevailing. However, he has been influenced by modernism including the painting of Vincent Van Gogh, German Expressionism and American Expressionist, Marsden Hartley. He later added abstract sculpture to his pursuits, working in painted wood and painted bronze....
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
A new opera house and theater have been unveiled as a $354 million Dallas performing arts center made its debut this week.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
DALLAS -- A new opera house and theater have been unveiled as a $354 million Dallas performing arts center made its debut this week.
FrontBurner (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Not sure why this is just getting reported now, but Robert Murdock, curator of contemporary and 20th-century art at the Dallas Museum of Art in the 1970s, died October 1 in New York, of complications from cancer. With all the justified hullabaloo surrounding this week’s opening of the DCPA, it’s worth taking a moment to [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Mr. Murdock was an art historian and curator of 20th-century and contemporary art who organized some notable exhibitions.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Ann Arbor, Mich - The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) announces it will present a landmark exhibition of rare works of art and important new scholarship brought together to explore the provocative relationship between photography and painting along the Normandy coast in mid-19th-century France. Organized by UMMA, “The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
PHOTOS AND PAINTINGS: An exhibit opening Saturday at the University of Michigan Museum of Art explores the relationship between photography and painting in mid-19th-Century France. It's titled "The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874." Included are painters Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas and...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
DALLAS, TX.- The work of six contemporary artists who have adapted elements and characteristics of theater, opera, and performance in their work will be featured in a new exhibition, Performance/Art, opening October 8. Along with the Dallas Museum of Art 's companion exhibitions All the World's a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts, which opened on August 30, and A Dream Come True: The...
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