After a summer rehaul, the museum has reopened its European art galleries with rarely seen works from the museum’s permanent collection, restored Old Master paintings and sculptures, and a collection of Impressionist and Modern masterworks.
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Five Centuries of Play Between Word and Image
Word and Image at the Dallas Museum of Art emphasizes just how varied the art and technology of print can be.
Contemporary Hopi Artists’ Mural Travels From Flagstaff to Dallas, Animating Indigenous Art
A small but powerful exhibit, shows intense commitment to the power of individual artists, within the broader context of communal history.
A Stirring History of Cocktail Design
An exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art gathers design objects used in the creation and consumption of cocktails over more than a century.
Why Museums Are Granting Google Free Access to Their Collections
Google Cultural Institute recently revealed that it has engineered the creatively named Google Art Camera: a custom-built camera intended to capture “ultra-high resolution ‘gigapixel’ images” of artworks in museums around the world.
A Terra-cotta Antiquity that Arrived at a Turkish Museum by Mail
On August 26, the Antalya Museum in Konyaaltı, Turkey, received an unexpected package from Vienna.
Security Footage of Dallas Museum of Art’s Crane Crash Oozes Suspense
Newly released security camera footage of a crane collapsing on the Dallas Museum of Art is pure Hitchcock.
Google’s Online Museum Adds 3D Animal Skulls and Sculptures
The Google Cultural Institute, known for empowering internauts to Street View their way through museums and look very, very closely at digitized two-dimensional artworks, has ventured into the third dimension.
A Gutai Painter Finally Has His Moment in the West
Much attention is being focused on the paintings of the late Japanese Gutai painter and Tendai monk, Kazuo Shiraga (1924–2008), who for years has been collected throughout Europe, even as he has been virtually ignored in the United States.
Smithsonian Joins Forces with 14 Museums to Pool Data on American Art
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has launched the American Art Collaborative, a consortium of 14 museums across the country coming together to create what you might call the art-world version of the Digital Public Library of America.
The Life and Death of an Exhibition
LOS ANGELES — It’s a rare opportunity to be present at the birth of an exhibition as well as the death of one. It affords the prospect of seeing how the same group of artworks can shift greatly in meaning, beauty, and cohesion based on the varying location and curation of an exhibition.
National Exhibition Will Fill US Billboards with Art
Five American art museums and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America will mount a nationwide public art exhibition this summer. Art Everywhere will bring reproductions of some 50 artworks from the museums’ collections — chosen how else but through an online public vote — to billboards, subway platforms, train stations, and more.