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Fine art museums don’t usually put up Christmas trees or decorations. But when there’s a holiday exhibition created by some of the leading Italian sculptors of the late 18th century, the Kimbell Art Museum [...]

The Kimbell Art Museum (center) is adding a new building (center left). The Modern Art Museum is in the upper right.

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North Texas is getting a Piano duet.
Renzo Piano, the celebrated architect of the Nasher Sculpture Garden in Dallas, is designing a new [...]

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At the Dallas Museum of Art, there’s an nkisi nkondi [pronounced en-keesee enkondee]. It’s a wooden statue from the Congo that bristles with iron nails hammered into it. It stands in the Center for Creative Connections, the museum’s new learning center, [...]

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Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet — Ninety two Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces from The Chicago Art Institute have found a temporary home at the Kimbell Art Museum. It’s the first time the Chicago museum has allowed so many masterworks to take a road trip. [...]

In Art&Seek’s July 1 review of the current Impressionists show at the Kimbell Art Museum, I noted the fact that the Kimbell’s arrangement with the Art Institute of Chicago, the paintings’ home, had raised a few eyebrows in the art world. It involved paying the AIC a reported $2 million, a fee big enough to [...]

At the Moulin Rouge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, oil, 1892-95
Like absinthe, a favorite libation of theirs, the Impressionists seem to be dangerously habit-forming. That certainly seems the case with the Kimbell, which, whenever it can, eagerly imports gallons of Renoirs and Monets.
In 1994, the famous Barnes Collection, with its concentration on Impressionists, came for [...]

Edgar Degas, Yellow Dancers … Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait
Images courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
Invited guests and members of the press who attended today’s preview of the Kimbell Art Museum’s Impressionist exhibition, opening Sunday, were rewarded with a remarkable tour. Malcolm Warner, acting director of the Kimbell, led the group past the 92 works [...]