Simek Sums Up
D Magazine’s Peter Simek sums up the dramatic occurrences in the Dallas Art scene for 2013 without resorting to tiresome to write , but love-able to read end-of year lists, or at least not until after he’s made concise analyses of the DMA’s new director and the Nasher Glare Controversy, praises the burgeoning of exciting [...]
DMA Offers New Art Ball Prize For Grad Students: $1500
The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the inaugural DMA Art Ball Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Dallas Art Fair. Maxwell L. Anderson (Director, DMA), Frances Colpitt (Chair of Art History, TCU), Annette Lawrence (Professor, UNT), Gabriel Ritter (Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, DMA), and Jeremy Strick (Director, Nasher Sculpture Center) will select [...]
Anderson Bids for Overpriced Leonardo, Reassessing Art of the Possible at DMA
The Dallas Museum of Art has scraped together a sizable pile of money from donors and made what Director Maxwell Anderson calls “a very reasonable offer” for a painting which is estimated to be in the $200 million range, but Anderson’s quotes in D Magazine are full of breaking-it-gently phrases: “there are certain things you [...]
CultureGrrl Casts Doubts on DMA’s New Free Admission Policy
In a post yesterday in CultureGrrl, blogger Lee Rosenbaum nitpicks the new free-admission policy at the Dallas Museum of Art. In support of her fears that dropping admission charges will be financially unsustainable, she cavils that DMA director Maxwell Anderson’s claim that museums in general derive 4% of their operating income from admission charges is [...]
Dallas Museum of Art to Offer Free Membership And Free Admission Starting in January
The Dallas Museum of Art announced yesterday that it will return to free general admission in January 2013 and launch an unusual new free-membership plan. The new program, DMA Friends & Partners, approaches membership as a means of engaging visitors, emphasizing participation over the typical cash-n-carry membership model common among museums. Here’s how it works: [...]
DMA Hires Al Khemir to Promote Global Islamic Art Exchanges, MFAH Announces Its Islamic Art Partnership and Loan of 85-carat Engraved Emerald
The Dallas Museum of Art has appointed Sabiha Al Khemir, the founding director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, as the Museum’s first Senior Advisor of Islamic Art. Beginning immediately, Dr. Al Khemir will help build partnerships with international art institutions to promote the exchange of Islamic works, and work to enhance [...]
Maxwell Anderson: He’s a Good Guy
DMA Director Maxwell Anderson was praised in the Dallas Morning News for his stance against blockbusters, his ethical transparency, and his positive attitude. The article, basically a collection of accolades from colleagues and media sources, was written by the Morning News’ Micheal Granberry, apparently on the occasion of the opening of the DMA’s Plumed Serpent [...]
DMA Gets $300,000 to Develop Digital Media Projects
The Dallas Museum of Art has received $300,000 to support the creation of a Laboratory for Museum Innovation, which will produce digital media for museum visitors.Actually, it’s three gifts, from AT&T, the Texas Instruments Foundation, and Forrest and Cynthia Miller. The new media lab will be headed by Robert Stein, developer of ArtBabble.org, TAP, and [...]
$500,000 Mellon Grant Funds New Conservator at DMA
The Dallas Museum of Art has received a half-million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to hire ex-Getty conservator Mark Leonard as its new Chief Conservator. Leonard who had left the Getty to pursue his own art, will be the first occupant of the DMA’s new conservation studio (after he directs its construction) [...]
Anderson Pops out of Skintight Catsuit in Dallas News Photo Shoot
Jacqueline Buckingham Anderson, Houston native and wife of relatively new DMA Director Maxwell Anderson, is profiled, posed and photographed (again!) in the Dallas Morning News. Who are we to rain on her bandwagon?
DMA Hiring Binge Continues: Mark Leonard Appointed First Ever Chief Conservator, Launches Conservation Push
Dallas Museum of Art Director Maxwell Anderson has named ex-Getty Museum conservator Mark Leonard as the Museum’s first Chief Conservator, signaling an expansion of the DMA’s conservation program, with more staff and a renovated painting conservation studio to come. Leonard was Head of the Paintings Conservation Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum, but quit [...]
The Social Network, Arts and Culture Edition: Robert Stein Named DMA Deputy Director
Museum internet guru Robert Stein has been announced as the new Deputy Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. Stein is currently Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Stein will begin overseeing the DMA’s financial, educational, conservation, technological, web, and operational activities on April 19. Stein first worked [...]
D Magazine’s Glenn Hunter Takes a Hack at the Andersons: DMA’s New Director Straight Out of Central Casting
The end-of-January media luncheon with new Dallas Museum of Art Director Maxwell Anderson prompted a double-edged chop from blogger Glenn Hunter in last week’s D magazine. Calling Anderson “a big-time arts guy straight out of central casting: polished, corporate, carefully spoken. Tailor-made for Dallas, in other words.” Hunter goes on to dis Anderson’s wife, “the [...]
With New Medal Tinterow Outranks Anderson: Texas Museum Directors Polish Their French Honors
Gary Tinterow, former Met curator and new director of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, is going to be awarded the insignia of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government tomorrow in a ceremony at the Cultural Services offices of the French Embassy in New York. That puts him one [...]