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When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "This spring, the Dallas Museum of Art presents When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History, a permanent collection…

04.07.24 | 04.13.25

Frida: Beyond the Myth

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "This August, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) premieres Frida: Beyond the Myth, bringing together approximately 60 works by…

08.18.24 | 02.23.25

Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "This fall, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) premieres a major mid-career retrospective of pioneering British-American painter Cecily Brown—the…

09.29.24 | 02.09.25

The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "Marking the 150-year anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874, The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse illuminates the…

02.11.24 | 11.03.24

He Said/She Said: Contemporary Women Artists Interject

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "The Dallas Museum of Art will close out 2023 with the premiere of an exhibition of works by women…

12.17.23 | 07.21.24

Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "Beginning September 10, the Dallas Museum of Art will present Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction, the first major…

09.10.23 | 01.28.24

Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "From the sacred to the irreverent, see the exhibition that Artnet News called a “visual buffet.” Visit the Dallas…

02.19.23 | 10.15.23

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Sam F

From the DMA: "Jean-Michel Basquiat was one of the most important and celebrated American painters of the 1980s. Gifted to the DMA by the late…

07.04.22 | 08.13.23

Movement: The Legacy of Kineticism

From the DMA: "Exploring the power of kineticism in art, and featuring 80 works drawn from the Museum’s collection, Movement: The Legacy of Kineticism showcases…

09.18.22 | 07.16.23

2023 Nasher Prize Dialogues: Prolonging Transience: Performance and Ephemera

From the Nasher Scuplture Center: "Saturday, 4/1 11:30am at the Dallas Museum of Art Nasher Prize Dialogues: Prolonging Transience: Performance and Ephemera https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/programs-events/event/id/1950?nasher-prize-dialogues Throughout the…

04.01.23 | 04.01.23

Afro-Atlantic Histories

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "See the show that the New Yorker called “visionary” in the final destination of its U.S. tour. The DMA is…

10.22.23 | 02.11.23

Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "The first museum retrospective and US museum exhibition devoted to the late painter Matthew Wong premieres this fall at…

10.16.22 | 02.05.23

Bamana Mud Cloth: From Mali to the World

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "Mud cloth, or bogolanfini, originated among the Bamana peoples of Mali hundreds of years ago. Today, its distinctive designs…

11.03.21 | 12.04.22

Spirit Lodge: Mississippian Art from Spiro

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "Over 1,000 years ago, Mississippian peoples comprised an exceptional society that spanned eastern North America, distinguished by the construction…

03.13.22 | 08.07.22

Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "Bringing together 91 works from the Dallas Museum of Art’s (DMA) acclaimed collection of contemporary art and important loans…

09.14.21 | 07.10.22

Bosco Sodi: La fuerza del destino

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "A group of 30 terracotta sculptures by Bosco Sodi will be exhibited in the Dallas Museum of Art’s (DMA)…

09.14.21 | 07.10.22

Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared

From Dallas Museum of Art: "The first solo museum exhibition for painter Naudline Pierre premieres at the Dallas Museum of Art this fall. Naudline Pierre:…

09.26.21 | 05.15.22

Van Gogh and the Olive Groves

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "Van Gogh and the Olive Groves is the first exhibition dedicated to the legendary artist's important olive grove series, produced…

10.17.21 | 02.06.22

Point, Line, Plane: The William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee Bequest

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "Opening September 26 at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), a new exhibition honors a remarkable gift from the…

09.26.21 | 01.09.22

Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is pleased to present Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection, an exhibition of the excellent Dallas-based…

10.10.21 | 01.09.22

Devoted: Art and Spirituality in Mexico and New Mexico

From the Museum: "Devotional objects play an important role in the daily life of communities and can be admired as much for their artistic value…

03.07.21 | 01.02.22

Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa

From the Museum: "Throughout the world, silk is used to make cloth and associated with wealth and status, but  this rare, natural fiber is also…

12.20.20 | 10.24.21

Curbed Vanity: A Contemporary Foil by Chris Schanck

From the Museum "For his first museum commission and solo museum presentation, Dallas-native artist Chris Schanck is creating a contemporary work inspired by the late-19th…

01.17.21 | 08.29.21

Mel Chin: Better

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "In support of Black Lives Matter and to confirm commitment and solidarity against the attacks on Asian Americans and…

05.28.21 | 08.15.21

Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "The Dallas Museum of Art presents Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole, the first US solo museum exhibition for the multidisciplinary French-Swiss artist. Julian Charrière creates work that…

05.02.21 | 08.08.21

Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris

From the Museum: "Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris highlights the artist’s pioneering and revolutionary contributions to the Cubist movement by focusing…

03.07.21 | 07.25.21

For a Dreamer of Houses

For a Dreamer of Houses explores the significance of the spaces we inhabit and how they represent ourselves, our values, and our desires. The exhibition takes…

03.15.20 | 07.21.21

Frida Kahlo: Five Works

From the Dallas Museum of Art: "Frida Kahlo: Five Works offers a rare chance to explore a selection of works by acclaimed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.…

03.07.21 | 06.20.21

Ghosts of Lost Futures: 10 videos commissioned by the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection

From the organizers: "In partnership with the Dallas Museum of Art, the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection and the SMU Libraries will present…

05.22.21 | 05.22.21

Not Visible to the Naked Eye: Inside a Senufo Helmet Mask

"The DMA’s Conservation and Arts of Africa departments, in an exciting and cutting-edge collaboration with UT Southwestern Medical Center, will present CT scans of a…

11.23.19 | 03.21.21

Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death

A presentation of the seminal video collage piece by Arthur Jafa. From the Dallas Museum of Art: "Following this summer’s online screening, the DMA is…

08.30.20 | 03.07.21

My│gration

My│gration, a new exhibition inspired by input from the Dallas community that explores the migration of people, objects, and ideas in art from the DMA’s…

02.01.20 | 01.03.21

Frans Hals: Detecting a Decade

"Two imposing paintings of the same sitter painted a decade apart showcase the revolutionary technique of Frans Hals (1582/83–1666), the first great portraitist of 17th-century…

02.23.20 | 01.03.21

To Be Determined

"To Be Determined, a new exhibition that brings together works from across the Museum’s encyclopedic collection that, subject to viewer interpretation, reveal new meanings and…

09.27.20 | 12.27.20

Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art

The Dallas Museum of Art will present a new exhibition surveying representations of women in Mexican Modernism. Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art is inspired by…

02.16.20 | 09.20.20

Contemporary Art + Design: New Acquisitions

An exhibition of new acquisitions by the Dallas Museum of Art. From the Museum. "Jointly organized by the Museum’s decorative arts and design and contemporary…

08.30.20 | 08.14.20

Wearable Raffia from Africa

An exhibition featuring "Raffia garments from West and Central Africa and the island of Madagascar". "Organized by Dr. Roslyn A. Walker, the DMA’s Senior Curator…

08.31.19 | 07.12.20

Sandra Cinto: Landscape of a Lifetime

Sandra Cinto will transform the Concourse hall with Landscape of a Lifetime, a 153-foot mural covering the walls and ceiling in 24 shades of blue, shifting from…

11.15.19 | 07.05.20

Focus On: Alex Katz

A solo exhibition featuring work by Alex Katz. "Focus On: Alex Katz brings together the iconic genres of the artist’s oeuvre: portraits, landscapes, and party…

09.15.19 | 03.22.20

Focus On: Ragnar Kjartansson

A solo exhibition featuring work by Ragnar Kjartansson. "The Visitors and a series of correspondence created by the internationally renowned artist Ragnar Kjartansson. The Visitors…

09.15.19 | 03.22.20

speechless: different by design

“An exhibition that merges research, aesthetics, and innovative new design to explore the vast spectrum of sensory experiences and new approaches to accessibility and modes…

11.10.19 | 03.22.20

Artist Talk: Roger Winter

In celebration of the new publication The Art of Roger Winter: Fire and Ice, artist Roger Winter will talk with biographer and art historian Susie Kalil about his…

03.21.20 | 03.21.20

Speechless

A group exhibition featuring multi-media work by Ini Archibong, Matt Checkowski, Misha Kahn, Steven and William Ladd, Laurie Haycock Makela, and Yuri Suzuki. "Curated by…

11.10.19 | 02.23.20

Concentrations 62: Wanda Koop, Dreamline

A focus installation featuring Wanda Koop. "Wanda Koop is an established Canadian painter whose practice explores how modern urban society and the natural environment intersect.…

10.20.19 | 02.02.20

Sheila Hicks: Secret Structures, Looming Presence

"Sheila Hicks: Secret Structures, Looming Presence pairs works from the Museum’s collection of ancient Andean art with a selection of  loom-woven, wrapped, twisted, and knotted…

06.29.19 | 01.12.20

Dior: From Paris to the World

A retrospective of 70 years of influence of the House of Dior, featuring almost 200 haute cotoure dresses, as well as accessories, photographs, original sketches,…

05.19.19 | 10.27.19

FANGORIA and the DMA Present: Mid-Century Modern Horror

"FANGORIA and the DMA present a day of mid-century modern horror featuring classic films from the 1950s and 60s and a special preview screening of…

10.26.19 | 10.26.19

America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape

A focus exhibition of works primarily from the DMA’s collection of contemporary art that take the American landscape as a point of departure. "Vija Celmins,…

04.06.19 | 10.06.19

Spencer Evans: In My Image

An exhibition in the DMA's C3 Visiting Artist Center, featuring "large, collaborative self-portraits started by Museum visitors and completed by the artist".

07.31.19 | 08.01.19

Arts & Letters Live: Caravaggio’s Life and Art

"Julien Domercq, the DMA’s Lillian and James H. Clark Assistant Curator of European Art, will start by discussing Caravaggio’s painting Martha and Mary Magdalene (c.…

07.16.19 | 07.16.19

Jonas Wood

A major show of works by American painter Jonas Wood.

03.24.19 | 07.14.19

Women Artists in Europe from the Monarchy to Modernism

"This focus exhibition highlights the DMA’s exceptional holdings of artwork by female artists working in Europe between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. Drawn…

12.22.18 | 06.09.19

Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist

"Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist will focus on the artist’s treatment of the modern figure through approximately 60 paintings from public and private collections around the…

02.24.19 | 05.26.19

Concentrations 61: Runo Lagomarsino

"Concentrations 61 is the first solo museum exhibition for Runo Lagomarsino, a conceptual artist of Italian and Argentine descent who lives and works in Malmö,…

09.30.18 | 04.14.19

Modernity and the City

"Between 1870 and 1914, the second wave of the Industrial Revolution brought changes that would have been difficult to imagine in earlier centuries. Cars, airplanes,…

12.01.18 | 04.07.19

Asian Textiles: Art and Trade Along the Silk Road

"Drawn from the DMA’s collection, this exhibition showcases fine examples of garments and ornamental hangings. The works on view come from India, Central Asia, China,…

12.16.17 | 03.19.19

Ida O’Keeffe: EscIda O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s ShadowIda O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadowaping Georgia’s Shadow

"Ida TenEyck O’Keeffe was recognized as a gifted artist during her life, but her efforts were overshadowed by those of her famous older sister, Georgia.…

11.18.18 | 02.24.19

Women + Design: New Works

"Women + Design: New Works is an exhibition composed of recent works by seven contemporary female designers. It also features two newly created pieces that…

10.28.18 | 02.17.19

From Düsseldorf to Dallas: Postwar German Art in the DMA Collection

A show of works by German artists in the DMA's collection.

10.21.18 | 02.17.19

An Enduring Legacy: The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Collection of Impressionist and Modern Art

A show of works given to the museum by Margaret and Eugene McDermott. The exhibition includes works by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Edvard…

06.14.18 | 02.17.19

Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty

"Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty will survey the prolific and provocative career of the late artist Günther Förg (1952-2013). Förg was closely associated with the…

10.21.18 | 01.27.19

Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art

"Cult of the Machine examines American culture from the 1910s to the Second World War and reveals how the American love affair with new technology…

09.16.18 | 01.06.19

Body Ego

"Body Ego includes works by more than ten female artists in the DMA’s collection and considers how abstract sculpture represents the human body, and the…

07.12.18 | 09.09.18

Soft Focus

"This new installation of photographs from the DMA’s collection highlights the exemplary work of more than 20 women photographers who have expressed softened and dreamlike…

07.12.18 | 09.09.18

Laura Owens

An exhibition featuring over sixty works spanning Laura Owens' 20-year career. Owens' pieces "challenge traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction, as well as the relationships among avant-garde…

03.25.18 | 07.29.18

Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins

An exhibition featuring Yayoi Kusama's 2016 infinity mirror room All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins. For more on the show, go here.

10.01.17 | 02.25.18

Truth: 24 frames per second

"Truth: 24 frames per second brings together 24 pioneers of film and video and over six decades of work focused on pressing contemporary themes, such…

10.22.17 | 01.28.18

Shaken, Stirred, Styled: The Art of the Cocktail

An exhibition of objects taken from the DMA's design collection that explore different cocktail cultures.

11.18.16 | 11.12.17

Rick Brettell & Mark Lamster: Cultural Developments in Dallas

Rick Brettell and Mark Lamster will discuss cultural developments in the city. This talk is organized by the Dallas Architecture Forum.

10.10.17 | 10.10.17

Waxed: Batik from Java

"Drawn from the DMA’s collection, Waxed: Batik from Java presents a selection of Javanese batik made in the West and Central regions, where the main…

09.25.16 | 09.10.17

Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints from the National Gallery of Art

An exhibition surveying "how America and its people have been represented in prints made by American and non-American artists between 1710 and 2010." The show…

05.28.17 | 09.03.17

Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion

A show of works by Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. In her designs, van Herpen uses unusual materials that incorporate technology and science.

05.21.17 | 08.20.17

México 1900–1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde

An exhibition exploring modern art created by 20th-century Mexican artists. The show features works by Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, Ángel Zárraga, Tina Modotti,…

03.12.17 | 07.16.17

Passages in Modern Art: 1946 – 1996

A show of works from the DMA's contemporary art collection. Artists represented in the show include Bernd and Hilla Becher, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama,…

03.13.16 | 05.28.17

Daumier’s Political and Social Satire

A show of works by French artist Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), a French artist known for his caricatures lampooning politics and society in 19th-century France.

10.29.16 | 04.23.17

Carey Young: The New Architecture

An exhibition of works by London-based artist Carey Young. The show will feature photographic and text-based works along with Young's new video piece Palais de Justice.

02.02.17 | 04.02.17

Art and Nature in the Middle Ages

An exhibition exploring the various representations of nature in medieval art. The show is organized by the Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge in…

12.04.16 | 03.19.17

Nicolas Party: Pathway

A mural by Swiss artist Nicolas Party. "For three weeks, Party worked on-site to transform the corridor into an immersive, vibrantly colored landscape mural that was…

08.19.16 | 02.05.17

Vermeer Suite: Music in 17th-Century Dutch Painting

An exhibition inspired by Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, a Vermeer painting from 1670–72. This show includes this painting by Vermeer as well as paintings…

01.17.16 | 08.21.16

Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty

A retrospective exhibition of photographs by Irving Penn.

04.15.16 | 08.14.16

Spirit and Matter: Masterpieces from the Keir Collection of Islamic Art

An exhibition of over fifty works from the Keir Collection of Islamic Art. This is the first time these works have been exhibited in North America.

09.18.15 | 07.31.16

Arts & Letters Live

A literary and performing arts series hosted by the museum. For more info, go here.

01.11.16 | 06.24.16

Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots

An exhibition focusing on Pollock’s black enamel and oil paintings created between 1951 and 1953.

11.20.15 | 03.20.16

International Pop

An exhibition that chronicles the globalization of the 1960s and 70s Pop art movement. Highlighted in this exhibition is Pop art's connection to movements in…

10.11.15 | 01.17.16

Mirror Stage—Visualizing the Self After the Internet

An exhibition–part of the DMA's Concentration series–featuring videos by eight artists examining the changing understanding and representation of the self via digital technology and the…

04.10.15 | 12.06.15

Inca: Conquests of the Andes

An exhibition exploring the effects of state expansion and imperial conquest on Andean visual arts, with more than 100 artworks and textile objects from the…

05.15.15 | 11.15.15

Mirror Stage: Panel Discussion

A panel discussion featuring artists Ed Atkins and Jacolby Satterwhite, both of whom are featured in the exhibition Concentrations 59: Mirror Stage—Visualizing the Self After the Internet.

10.20.15 | 10.20.15

Public Opening of Third-floor Arts of Africa Gallery

The first major redesign in twenty years for the museum's African art galleries.

09.25.15 | 09.25.15

Frank Bowling: Map Paintings

An exhibition of select works from painter Frank Bowling’s “Map Paintings” series in which he used world maps as organizational tools to explore color. Including…

02.20.15 | 08.02.15

Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga

Works from the artists' 18-year engagement with the Gutai Art Association—the leading avant-garde group of postwar Japanese artists, along with to latter-day pieces created in…

02.08.15 | 07.19.15

Michaël Borremans: As Sweet As It Gets

An exhibition bringing together 50 paintings, 40 drawings, and five films made by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans over the last fifteen years.

03.15.15 | 07.05.15

Kevin Beasley: Black Rocker

The debut of a new work by New York-based artist Kevin Beasley–a sound performance piece with interactive sculptural components including the rocking chair referred to…

05.15.15 | 05.16.15

Ei Arakawa: Jiro, Digital Painting

The premiere of a newly commissioned musical by New York–based performance artist Ei Arakawa, together with writer Dan Poston and composer David Zuckerman, inspired by…

04.08.15 | 04.08.15

Isa Genzken: Retrospective

Big traveling show installed in the barrel vault and quadrant galleries; it's the first American retrospective, covering nearly four decades, of this influential German artist's…

09.14.14 | 01.04.15

Concentrations 57: Slavs and Tatars

New work from the collective Slavs and Tatars, who focus on “the area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China…

07.18.14 | 12.14.14

From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith

Rare Modernist jewelry from Smith, an early and active supporter of black and gay civil rights. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

06.14.14 | 12.07.14

360 Speaker Series: Sarah Thornton

The Nasher and the DMA present a conversation with author Sarah Thornton. Thornton wrote Seven Days in the Art World, an international bestseller, and her…

11.06.14 | 11.06.14

Mind’s Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cézanne

Despite the fact that the DMA is predictably flogging the Impressionist ballet dancers and still lifes in their press materials for this show, set your…

06.29.14 | 10.26.14

Saturated: Dye-Decorated Cloths from North and West Africa

An exhibition focusing on and celebrating the dyer’s art from North and West Africa, including the countries of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and…

08.16.13 | 10.12.14

State of the Arts Panel Discussion

Featuring Arthur Peña of WARE:WOLF: HAUS; Devon Nowlin of Homecoming Committee; and writer and SMU community engagement associate Darryl Ratcliff.

09.11.14 | 09.11.14

Never Enough: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art

The argument could be made that the DMA's show of new acquisitions demonstrates an institution either on the bleeding edge, or wallowing in the misguided…

03.08.14 | 07.20.14

NEVER ENOUGH: Gallery talk with Debora Hunter

Debora Hunter, Associate Professor of Photography at SMU discusses Never Enough, the show of new DMA acquisitions.

07.09.14 | 07.09.14

Alexandre Hogue: The Erosion Series

Hogue's artist’s erosion works and supporting drawings for several of the paintings.  

02.16.14 | 06.15.14

Cities & Cultural Investment: A Snapshot

A panel conversation about cultural investment in major cultural centers, part of the Association of Art Museum Directors' annual meeting in Dallas. Panelists will be:…

06.01.14 | 06.01.14

Takashi Murakami: Jellyfish Eyes

Murakami's first live-action feature film will begin its nine-stop screening tour at the Dallas Museum of Art. The DMA is also one of few venues…

05.01.14 | 05.01.14

Robert Smithson in Texas

The first examination of five projects Smithson proposed throughout the state of Texas.  

11.24.13 | 04.27.14

Concentrations 56: Stephen Lapthisophon—coffee, seasonal fruit, root vegetables

In his first U.S. museum solo show, Dallas-based artist Stephen Lapthisophon investigates how language and mark-making are linked to the formation of self-identity. His installations…

10.27.13 | 03.30.14

Gabriel Ritter, Andrea Karnes and Jeff Whittington: discussion

KERA’s Whittington will lead a discussion with DMA curator Gabriel Ritter and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth curator Karnes on the art scene…

01.23.14 | 01.23.14

Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take

The DMA will premiere a traveling exhibition and the first comprehensive survey to be organized in the United States on the work of contemporary American…

10.06.13 | 01.12.14

Untitled: Jim Hodges

A film made by Hodges in collaboration with Encke King and Carlos Marques da Cruz, Untitled begins with a reflection on the early AIDS epidemic.…

01.11.14 | 01.11.14

Arts & Letters Live: Open House

The DMA invites the public to purchase tickets and learn more about the six month Arts & Letters Live season during an open house from noon…

12.12.13 | 12.12.13

Frank Mosley: Two Story

Mosley will premiere his latest video installation in the c3 Gallery as part of their Late Night Art Bytes Series. It's the second in his quartet…

11.15.13 | 11.16.13

Art Beyond Sight with John Bramblitt and Stephen Lapthisophon

The DMA is participating in the 11th annual Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month, a celebration of visual awareness. During Friday’s Late Night, artists John Bramblitt…

10.18.13 | 10.18.13

Jim Hodges and Jeffrey Grove: Discussion

Artist Jim Hodges will join DMA curator Jeffrey Grove for a discussion his work and the DMA co-organize exhibition Jim Hodges: Give More Than You…

10.03.13 | 10.03.13

DallasSITES: Charting Contemporary Art, 1963 to Present

DallasSITES: Charting Contemporary Art, 1963 to Present is an exhibition highlighting the history of North Texas’s distinctive art scene. Looking back over fifty years, DallasSITES…

05.26.13 | 09.15.13

Boom Town

Boom Town, an exhibition organized by The Art Foundation for Available Spaces, describes the tangle of networks  that shape Dallas’ current cultural climate. The exhibited…

07.19.13 | 08.18.13

Thumb in the Eye Wrestling Federation: Championship

Thumb In The Eye Wrestling Federation (TITEWF) is hosting a winner take all thumb wrestling championship. One, Two, Three, Four, I declare a thumb war!!!!

08.15.13 | 08.15.13

Travel + Technology in Performance Art

Apophenia Underground announces Travel + Technology in Performance Art, third in a series of panels of performance art featuring panelists Apophenia Underground, Rachel Cook, Anthony…

08.08.13 | 08.08.13

No Name

TheDallas Museum of Art presents the performance No Name and the subsequent PSWxEdu, a four-week performance art education series from July 25 - August 15,…

07.19.13 | 07.19.13

Good/Bad Art Collective: Fashionably Late

Performance? Drunken party? Excellent art? If our memory of Denton in the 90's is accurate Good/Bad Art Collective's tardy return to the Dallas–Fort Worth area…

06.21.13 | 06.21.13

Meaningful Moments

A behind-the-scenes tour with Reagan Duplisea, Associate Registrar-Exhibitions, DMA. This program is designed specifically for individuals with early stage dementia and their family members or…

06.14.13 | 06.14.13

Cindy Sherman

A nationally touring survey of the influential artist, known for photographing herself in a range of guises and personas that are by turns amusing and…

03.17.13 | 06.09.13

Chagall: Beyond Color

Co-organized by the DMA and Musée La Piscine de Roubaix, the exhibition showcases little-known works including ceramics, collages, sculpture, and performance by the famous painter.…

02.17.13 | 05.26.13

Kenneth Frampton, Author, Historian and Professor

Dallas Architecture Forum brings British architecture critic Kenneth Frampton to speak at the DMA.The lecture will start at 7 p.m. with a complimentary reception beginning…

03.21.13 | 03.21.13

Difference?

Artists old and new with one thing in common, drawn from the DMA's collection. Curator Jeffrey Grove poses the question, “What’s the difference, and does…

10.19.12 | 03.17.13

Karla Black: Concentrations 55

Transforming light, fragile, often impermanent materials into powerful sculptures of commanding scale and presence.

10.19.12 | 03.17.13

KITNFACE and Luckyirkman: Early American/sƃuıʍɐɹp uɐɔıɹǝɯ∀

Dallas' Studio DTFU presents a digital intervention by artists KITNFACE and Luckyirkman, who will take over the American wing of the Dallas Museum of Art…

01.21.13 | 02.21.13

Late Nites at the DMA: Chagall and Steampunk

The first FREE Late Night of 2013 includes continuous events until midnight, includung  the art odf the Dallas Steampunk community, and its relation to Chagall!

02.15.13 | 02.15.13

A Cremona con Amore

Filmmaker Quin Mathews and violinist Emanuel Borok will attend the premiere screening of A Cremona con Amore, a film that takes you along on the…

01.31.13 | 01.31.13

Variations on Theme: Contemporary Art 1950s–Present

The DMA’s iconic barrel vault and surrounding galleries, filled with contemporary art from the permanent collection, some on display for the first time.

07.07.12 | 01.30.13

State Of The Arts discussion series with Jeff Whittington

KERA host and senior producer Jeff Whittington explores DFW's contemporary art scene with artist Carlos Donjuan, Professor of Art, University of Texas at Arlington; Kim…

01.24.13 | 01.24.13

Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries

Beginning with the early designs of Jules Chéret, the exhibition explores the earliest days of the affiche artistique (artistic poster) and its flowering in Paris,…

10.14.12 | 01.20.13

The Legacy of the Plumed Serpent in Ancient Mexico

150 objects including painted codices, turquoise mosaics, gold, and textiles trace the development of an extensive trade network that spread across ancient Mexico, the American…

07.29.12 | 11.25.12

Dallas Architecture Forum Lectures: Brian Mackay-Lyons

Award-winning Canadian architect and the founder of “Ghost” Laboratory Brian Mackay-Lyons will speak at the DMA.

10.11.12 | 10.11.12

Omer Fast: 5000 Feet Is the Best

Omer Fast's 30-minute film, originally shown at the 2011 Venice Biennale, is based on interviews between Fast and a Predator Drone aerial vehicle operator now…

06.23.12 | 09.30.12

iMuseum 2.0 Late Night

Use technology to explore the DMA and participate in new, experimental, and interactive programs. Text a work of art with your questions, listen to the…

09.21.12 | 09.21.12

Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas

In 1952, Leon Harris, Jr., the young vice president of the Harris and Company department store commissioned expatriate German dadaist Grosz to create a series…

05.20.12 | 08.19.12

Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties

A wide-ranging exploration of American art from the decade between World War I and the Great Depression, organized by the Brooklyn Museum.

03.04.12 | 05.27.12

Inaugural David Dillon Symposium: Criticism Today

The inaugural David Dillon Symposium will honor Dillon's prolific career as an architectural critic. The keynote speaker will be Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Goldberger, the architecture…

04.26.12 | 04.27.12

Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments

Enigmatic and evocative sculptural objects and tableaux by acclaimed Dutch artist Mark Manders, as his work makes its first major North American tour, co-organized by…

01.15.12 | 04.15.12

Frank and Kristin Lee Dufour: Acoustic Shadows

Using video projection and three-dimensional sound that reacts to the viewers' presence and movements, UT Dallas professor Frank Dufour, with his wife Kristin Lee Dufour,…

12.08.11 | 04.12.12

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk

This is the first exhibition devoted to Gaultier, one of the most important fashion designers in recent decades. The exhibition highlights Gaultier’s eclectic sources of…

11.13.11 | 02.12.12

Mark Bradford

The DMA is the 4th stop of the first major survey of the Los Angeles–based Bradford, best known for his large-scale abstract paintings made from…

10.16.11 | 01.15.12

The Hindu Art of Love: Illustrating the Kama Sutra

DMA Asian art curator Dr. Anne Bromberg discusses works in the collection that illustrate how sexual pleasure and religious ecstasy were often united in ancient…

01.05.12 | 01.05.12

African Headwear: Beyond Fashion

What one wears on one’s head is both fashionable and meaningful: fifty traditional hats from the DMA’s collection of African art and local private collections…

08.14.11 | 01.01.12

Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection

The Dallas Museum of Art is mixing it up with its first exhibition of Native American works in twenty years. Art of the American Indians:…

04.24.11 | 09.04.11

Silence and Time: Contemporary Art Inspired by John Cage's 4'33"

Works from the DMA's collection with loans from "important local collectors" about solitude, reflection, and time, based on John Cage’s famously silent 1952 composition 4'33".…

05.29.11 | 08.28.11

Concentrations 54: Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily

The Dallas Museum of Art continues it's "project-based" series of exhibitions called Concentrations with two painters - Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily. They produce "complexly…

04.03.11 | 08.14.11

Elliot Caplan: Cage/Cunningham (1991)

Elliot Caplan's 1991 documentary about the decades-long partnership between composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, exploring their collaboration and their work with Robert Rauschenberg,…

07.21.11 | 07.21.11

Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement

Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement offers the first comprehensive examination of the life and work of Gustav Stickley, the recognized patriarch…

02.13.11 | 05.08.11

Big New Field: Artists in the Cowboys Stadium Art Program

In anticipation of Super Bowl XLV in February, 2011 at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, the Dallas Museum of Art premieres an exhibition in honor of…

12.05.10 | 02.20.11

African Masks: The Art of Disguise

African Masks: The Art of Disguise consists of approximately fifty objects from the Museum’s collections and on loan from local collectors. The Dallas Museum of…

08.22.10 | 02.13.11

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As part of the Dallas Museum of Art's celebration of the bicentennial of Mexico's independence, the exhibition Tierra y Gente: Modern Mexican Works on Paper…

06.18.10 | 01.09.11

The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of...

The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy features forty sculptures from the tomb of John the Fearless (1371–1419), the second duke of…

10.03.10 | 01.02.11

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México 200 is the Museum-wide celebration of the bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence and the DMA presents the special exhibition- José Guadalupe Posada: The Birth of…

06.18.10 | 12.26.10

Luc Tuymans

The Dallas Museum of Arts presents the first U.S. retrospective of the work of Belgian artist Luc Tuymans! This comprehensive presentation of Tuyman's work opened…

07.28.10 | 09.05.10

Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea

Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea is curated by Heather MacDonald, The Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, and showcases over…

04.25.10 | 08.22.10

Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L

Jacob Lawrence explores the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture who was a leader in the Haitian revolution. This exhibition will present fifteen silkscreen prints from the…

12.06.09 | 05.23.10

The Lens of Impressionism

The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 includes almost one hundred works including paintings, drawings, photographs and prints that focus…

02.21.10 | 05.23.10

Performance/Art

In celebration of the opening of Dallas’ new AT&T Performing Arts Center, the DMA presents the work of six international and American artists "who have…

10.08.09 | 03.21.10

All the World

All the World’s a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts "showcases a fresh look at the Museum’s collections in an interactive installation to commemorate…

08.30.09 | 02.28.10

The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs

"A protean artist, actor, and furniture-maker dedicated to the primacy of individual expression, Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) called his unprecedented designs 'artistic furniture.' His unusually inventive…

09.20.09 | 01.03.10

Private Universes: Media Works

Organized by María de Corral, The Hoffman Family Adjunct Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA, Private Universes: Media Works features works in a…

06.14.09 | 11.08.09

Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance

The DMA presents Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance, an exhibition of works by one of the most important artists to emerge from Northern Ireland in the…

05.24.09 | 08.30.09

Private Universes

"This special exhibition of approximately 80 contemporary works, including new acquisitions, promised gifts and important loans from the Dallas community and the Museum’s collections, highlights…

05.24.09 | 08.30.09

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

If you care, and if you haven't gotten enough of King Tut on the Discovery or History Channel, then the DMA has a show for…

10.03.08 | 05.17.09

Life in Space: Staging Identity

The 2008-2009 class of McDermott Interns presents the second intern-curated exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, titled Life in Space: Staging Identity, featuring 34…

03.06.09 | 05.03.09

Take your time: Olafur Eliasson

Check out this full-scale survey of Eliasson's work from 1993 to the present, including installations, large-scale immersive environments, freestanding sculpture, and photography. This is the…

11.09.08 | 03.15.09

Lone Star Legacy II: The Barrett Collection of Cont. TX Art

 Lone Star Legacy II features work given to the DMA by Nona and Richard Barrett, and includes examples from the '70s to the present by…

06.22.08 | 09.21.08

Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy

This is the final venue on a three-city national tour that included the Williams College Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. This…

06.01.08 | 09.14.08

On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages

This is conceptual Japanese artist Kawara’s first American museum exhibition in fifteen years!!

05.18.08 | 08.24.08

Either Side of Gray: Exploring Black and White

Kind of a hodgepodge of an exhibit, this show was curated by the museum's 2007-2008 McDermott Curatorial Interns, and includes work from each of their…

03.28.08 | 06.29.08

J. M. W. Turner

This is the largest, most comprehensive American retrospective of J. M. W. Turner's work, including 140 works, many of which have never been seen in…

02.10.08 | 05.25.08

Phil Collins: The World Won

The DMA will be the first venue to screen all three parts of the video installation the world won't listen by British artist Phil Collins…

11.09.07 | 03.23.08

Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting

Organized by the San Diego Museum of Art. Looks nice. (Here's an NYT review from the show at MFA Boston).

11.18.07 | 01.27.08

From the Ashes of Vesuvius

07.08.07 | 10.07.07

The Soci

06.08.07 | 09.16.07

Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections

Packed full of art, events, lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and much more! Check the website for more information on all this exhibit has to…

02.11.07 | 05.20.07

Matisse: Painter as Sculptor

Don't miss the other half at the Nasher across the street!

01.21.07 | 04.29.07

Panel Discussion: Art and Technology

Featuring three electronic media artists: Max Kazemzadeh, Assistant Professor of Electronic Media, UNT, Paul Slocum, artist, musician, and owner-director of and/or gallery, Dean Terry, Assistant…

04.26.07 | 04.26.07

Lecture: Matthew Ritchie

Join internationally renowned artist Ritchie as he discusses recent artistic developments that influenced his own work.

04.19.07 | 04.19.07

Concentrations 50: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla

The artistic team of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla show their videos Under Discussion and Amphibious (Login-Logout), which explore the nature of place, colonialism and…

01.01.70 | 02.18.07

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