Stephen Lapthisophon Gets Meadow Museum’s Moss/Chumly award for 2012
The Meadows Museum has announced that Stephen Lapthisophon is the recipient of the 2012 Moss/Chumley Artist Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding North Texas artist who has exhibited professionally for at least ten years and has a proven track record as a community advocate for the visual arts. Lapthisophon received the award [...]
Meadows’ Coleman Gift: Five Proto-Modern Spanish Paintings
Alan B. Coleman, former dean of SMU’s Cox School of Business, and his wife, Janet M. Coleman have gifted the Meadows Museum with five important 20th century Spanish paintings (photos by Dimitris Skliris): Moulin Rouge, Exit to the Box Seats (Moulin Rouge, salida a los palcos), c. 1902, by Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa (1871-1959). Segovia, from Perogordo [...]
Mom O’Twins, Assistant Curator Lady, and Wannabe Hoofer Nicole Atzbach Promoted to Curator at Meadows Museum
The Meadows Museum has promoted Nicole Atzbach to the position of Curator, from Assistant Curator, a position she has held since 2010, when she joined the museum from the Kimbell in Ft. Worth, where she was curatorial assistant. She is a 1998 graduate of Brigham Young University’s Art History program. Her self-description on Twitter adds [...]
Artist and Advocate Frances Bagley Receives 2010 Moss/Chumly Award from Meadows Museum
Frances Bagley is the winner of this year’s Moss/Chumley Artist Award, recognizing a North Texas artist who has been important as an arts advocate. The annual award is handed out by the Meadows Museum in honor of Frank Moss and Jim Chumley, Dallas art dealers in the 1980′s. In addition to being lead artist for [...]
Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan at the Meadows Museum
Is it okay to look at stolen objects? Can advanced technology assuage the guilt of looking at stolen objects? How about the guilt of exhibiting them? The University of Chicago and the Smithsonian have put together this touring exhibition of Buddhist sculptures purloined about a century ago from limestone caves in northern China. The Indiana [...]