The Dallas Museum of Art has hired Olivier Meslay, a curator for 16 years at the Louvre, to head up its department of European and American Art. For the last three years, Meslay has been the chief curator of Louvre Lens, a satellite location in northern France. Meslay will hold the joint positions of Senior [...]
SNAPSHOT OF THE SHOOTER: If you follow the local music scene, you know Jason Janik‘s work. He’s photographed just about anyone who has played a note on area stages, shooting plenty of concerts, as well as some album covers (Rhett Miller’s newest among them) and feature photos. Local photo blog photopol.us features Janik in its [...]
The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio will debut the tour this September, which was jointly organized with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Dallas Museum of Art will pick it up after SFMOMA, bringing it here in June 2010. Luc Tuymans will be the first U.S. retrospective on Tuymans’ career [...]
The Dallas Museum of Art sends word that it has named Jeffrey Grove the first Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art. Grove will be leaving his post as curator of modern and contemporary art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Keep reading for the full news release from the DMA:
ABOUT THOSE INCENTIVES: While covering the Cannes Film Festival, the Austin American-Statesman‘s Charles Ealy came across a bit of news from much closer to home. Waco, a $30-million retelling of the raid on the Branch Davidian compound near the town, was denied incentives from the state. In a follow up post, we learn that Bob [...]
The Dallas Museum of Art sends out news today of its 2009 Awards to Artists. The awards come courtesy of two funds and a grant. The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund is awarded to artists between 15 and 25 who live in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona or Colorado. The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough [...]
LANDSCAPES IN FORT WORTH: Landscape paintings can take many forms, from the most literal re-creation of the scene to fantastical interpretations. That wide array of possibilities is currently on display at Artspace111 in Fort Worth. The gallery’s American Landscape: Urban/Rural collects more than 20 local artists who provide their ideas of what landscape really means. [...]
There are two reasons why Dr. Zahi Hawass is effective as Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The most obvious is: he clearly knows and cares a great deal about his country’s cultural treasures. But another reason emerged on Tuesday night: he knows how to make others care as much as he does. [...]
The Dallas Museum of Art recently announced a new summer exhibition of works by noted Irish photographer and video artist Willie Doherty, short-listed twice for England’s Turner Prize. The show, Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance premieres May 24 and runs through August 16, and it includes eleven landscape photos of Northern Ireland, plus his 15-minute Ghost [...]
Artists who like money now have until March 13 to submit an application package for the Dallas Museum of Art’s annual Awards to Artists. There are three separate awards with differing age and residency requirements, but each award can have multiple recipients (and usually do). Not only will you, Winning Artist, receive money, but the [...]
