Anyone who attended the press preview of the Dallas Museum of Art’s King Tut exhibition is not likely to forget the speech delivered by Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt’s antiquities authority — including his eyebrow-raising remarks regarding a Dallas woman’s help in stopping some illegal trade in antiquities (Dr. Hawass declined to give any [...]

Rufino Tamayo
But Rufino Tamayo’s “America” didn’t belong to the Dallas Museum of Art. Tamayo’s largest mural at 13 ft by 15 ft, it was commissioned by the Bank of  Southwest in Houston in 1955. it was bought by an anonymous private collector in 1993 — and has been on loan to the DMA ever since.
The [...]

One-Way Color Tunnel, Olafur Eliasson, 2007
Many viewers will have a blast pondering some of Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition Take Your Time at the Dallas Museum of Art — and some will be bored by part of it. An easy enough prediction; one could say it about any exhibition.
But I also predict that, afterwards, there will probably [...]

Artist Olafur Eliasson brings his fun-house tour of visual delights to the Dallas Museum of Art this week, fulfilling expectations for a dazzling tour de force. The show officially opened on Sunday, but the artist flew into town for Tuesday morning’s press event and a public Artist Talk Wednesday night.
Eliasson uses tools intrinsically associated with [...]

La Reunion TX and the Dallas Museum of Art launched their design competition “Make Space for Artists: Design-A-Studio” on Thursday night inside the tech-savvy Center for Creative Connections (C3). Competitors from any corner of the arts can submit a plan for their ideal 16 cubic foot studio now through Feb. 12, 2009.
About 40 people shuffled [...]

Yesterday, the San Francisco Museum of Art launched a fun new search engine for more than 3,500 works in its collection. It’s called ArtScope and it’s essentially a magnifying glass-window that the viewer can drag over a huge checkerboard of miniature images, pick out one and enlarge it. The ‘tombstone’ information appears (artist, title of [...]

Guest blogger Sarah Jane Semrad is Executive Director of La Reunion TX.
Collaboration. It’s not just a way to generate ideas and maximize resources… For La Reunion TX, it’s a way to create focus group! Please join us Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Center for Creative Connections as we present [...]

Part of any major museum exhibition is the array of collectibles tied to it in the gift shop. You can bet that the Kimbell is selling plenty of pretty Manet posters and Van Gogh mouse pads tied to “The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago.”
So it should come as no surprise that [...]

Following Wednesday’s press preview of “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” the Art&Seek bloggers participated in an e-mail round-table discussion on all things Tut:
JEROME WEEKS: Setting aside, for the moment, the content of “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” at the DMA, what struck me immediately about the exhibition was [...]

The KERA radio story:

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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs begins its new tour of three American cities here in Dallas — with a seven-month run at the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibition features 130 objects from ancient Egypt, including a few that have [...]