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 [...]
Google Art Project Digitizes 71 Kimbell Masterpieces
The Kimbell Art Museum has become the second Texas institution to go online as part of the Google Art Project, a part of the company’s push for total free global information access. Kimbell Director Eric M. Lee is delighted: “We are thrilled to participate in Google’s Art Project; Google’s commitment to making art freely accessible [...]
DMA Considers Free General Admission: Perils of Pay Parking to Remain
A rumor that the Dallas Museum of Art is considering moving to free admission, confirmed by Jill Bernstein, the DMA’s communications czar, is the subject of discussion in the online D Magazine. Everyone’s in favor of not paying the current $10 admission charge, but canny museum-goers point out that, without a membership, parking itself in [...]
Museums Not Required to Shop Often Don’t: Dobrzynski Tells Why
Ace art blogger Judith Dobrzynski penned a neat summary of how a dedicated acquisitions fund ups a collecting museum’s cachet and opportunities in last week’s NY Times. Such funds are surprisingly rare; according to Dobrzynski, ” private collectors donate 80 to 90 percent of what is on view in American art museums. Fewer than two [...]
Culture Grrl Leaks News: Kimbell’s Potts to be New Getty Director
The LA Times Christopher Knight reports that the Getty museum has named former Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth) director Timothy Potts to head the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Potts replaces Michael Brand, who took a new job in Sydney, Australia after yet another round of what the Knight sees as inevitable frictions [...]
Your Ultimate Holiday Shopping Guide: TX Museum Gift Shop Edition
Wherever we go in Texas, we always make time for the museum gift shops. Our museum shops reliably have some of the most fun, unique and affordable gifts (for yourself and others) to be found. We’ve rounded up some of the best of them this year. For more shopping delight, be sure to check our [...]
Pillsbury Contemporary Art Collection on the Heritage Auction Block in Dallas October 26
Heritage Auctions, “The World’s Third Largest Auction house” will sell off more than 250 modern and contemporary artworks that once belonged to Dr. Edmund “Ted” Pillsbury, Dallas art dealer and intrepid scrounger of surprisingly wonderful things for the Kimbell Art Museum on October 26. The sale will take place at Heritage’s Design District Art [...]
Texas Art Travel: Fort Worth
If great cities are measured by their cultural institutions, Fort Worth is extraordinary. Its Cultural District is compact, pedestrian-friendly and internationally famous for the five renowned museums lined up right next to each other. Designed by a stellar roster of blue chip architects, including Pritzker Prize winners Philip Johnson and Tadao Ando, each building has [...]
Deep-pocketed Kimbell lures star curator George Shackelford away from Boston
The expanding Kimbell is expanding its staff: hiring star curator George Shackelford as it’s new #2 man. Shackelford, who worked for eleven years at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, has been cooling off in Boston for the past 15, he was easy to reclaim for Texas. Calling the Kimbell “the most beautiful art museum [...]