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Review: Alex Da Corte’s colorful, pop-inspired art show in Fort Worth

Alex Da Corte's exhibition "The Whale" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is the first museum show to focus on his relationship to painting, though it defies traditional definitions. The show features a variety of works including "puffy paintings," "slatwall paintings," and "reverse glass paintings," alongside a video where Da Corte portrays Marcel Duchamp. Curated by Alison Hearst, the exhibition also integrates some of Da Corte's works into the museum's permanent collection galleries, a first for the institution.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 29, 2025 visibility 21 link 18 artists, 1 gallery

Art, Ambition and Atmosphere: Inside Dallas Contemporary’s Annual Gala

Dallas Contemporary held its annual gala and benefit auction on a balmy night, raising over $1 million. The event, presented by Headington Companies and board president Ann McReynolds with John McReynolds, featured a live auction led by Christie’s Brett Sherlock, a runway show by students from Booker T. Washington School for the Performing Arts, and a surprise donation from painter Francisco Moreno. Guests included philanthropist Grace Cook, collector Marguerite Hoffman, artist Vicki Meek, and museum director Jeremy Strick, among others.

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article news schedule Apr 24, 2025 visibility 10 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Free-speech groups celebrate return of Sally Mann photos seized from Fort Worth museum

Free-speech groups announced that four photographs by Sally Mann, seized by Fort Worth Police from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in January 2025, have been returned. The police removed the images following allegations that they constituted child pornography, but a Tarrant County Grand Jury found no grounds for further action. The photos were part of the exhibition *Diaries of Home*, which featured work by women and nonbinary artists. The seizure drew widespread criticism from organizations including the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the National Coalition Against Censorship, who called it an abuse of government power and a violation of the First Amendment.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 8, 2025 visibility 18 link 15 artists

Art Review | Impressionist Field Day

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) is hosting a major traveling exhibition, "The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art," alongside its own companion show, "Encore: 19th-Century Art from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art." The exhibition features works by Monet, Matisse, Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, and others, including rare pieces from SBMA's permanent collection such as Monet's "Villas in Bordighera." The show marks the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition and includes related movements like Post-Impressionism, Pointillism, and Fauvism.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 2, 2025 visibility 22 link 25 artists

The OG of Art Revolutions Comes to Santa Barbara Museum of Art

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) will host "The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art" from October 5, 2025, to January 25, 2026. The exhibition, which marks the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, features masterworks by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Piet Mondrian, Berthe Morisot, and Edvard Munch, drawn from the Dallas Museum of Art's renowned French Impressionist collection. It traveled to Mexico City before arriving in Santa Barbara, the only West Coast U.S. venue for the show, and will later travel to Nashville, Québec, and Richmond.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 21, 2025 visibility 14 link 6 artists

Step into the fire. A new exhibition ignites the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Dallas-based artist David-Jeremiah presents his solo exhibition "The Fire This Time" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, featuring 27 shaped paintings created between 2020 and 2024. The paintings are shaped like Lamborghini hoods and arranged in clusters that invite visitors to stand at the center, becoming the focal point of an "inverted performance installation." Curated by Christopher Blay, the show spans four rooms and explores themes of beauty, violence, identity, and transformation, drawing inspiration from James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time." The exhibition also includes works from the museum's permanent collection by John Chamberlain, Anselm Kiefer, and Mark Rothko that resonate with the show's themes.

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person people schedule Aug 25, 2025 visibility 16 link 2 artists

Head of Carter museum in Fort Worth is leaving after 14 years

Andrew J. Walker is stepping down as executive director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth after 14 years. His tenure included launching a community artists initiative, overseeing a major renovation, and acquiring works by over ten Indigenous photographers. The museum also faced controversy last fall when it temporarily closed the exhibition "Cowboy" without explanation, later reopening it with a "mature content" label—a decision artist Rafa Esparza called censorship. Scott Wilcox, the museum's chief operating officer, will serve as interim leader while a search for a new director begins.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 16, 2025 visibility 17 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

The Chateau Show offers a stylish exhibition full of surprises for artistic insiders

Each October, the Chateau Show takes over the historic Aldredge House on Swiss Avenue in Dallas, a Gilded Age home built in 1915-17. Founded by artists Joel Murray and Clint Bargers, the four-year-old exhibition invites a select crowd of curators, museum directors, and art world insiders to view envelope-pushing works by emerging, mid-career, and established artists. This year’s edition features 21 participants, including Alicia Eggert, Luke Harnden, Virginia L. Montgomery, and Arthur Peña, with installations ranging from site-specific pieces to more commercial works. The show is free and open by appointment from Oct. 19-25.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 13 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

National Juneteenth Museum starts celebrations early with first Fort Worth exhibition

The National Juneteenth Museum, though not yet built in Fort Worth, is launching its first exhibition titled "Declarations of Freedom" on June 12, 2025. Curated by Lauren Cross and Christopher Blay, the show blends historical artifacts and photographs with contemporary works by North Texas artists including Vicki Meek, Spencer Evans, Sedrick Huckaby, and Letitia Huckaby. It precedes the museum's inaugural Freedom Vibes festival (June 19-22), featuring concerts, a block party, and a gospel program. State legislators have allocated $10 million toward the museum's $70 million goal, which CEO Jarred Howard frames as a nonpartisan American story.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 24, 2025 visibility 10 link 3 artists

Experience memories of plantation-born painter in new African American Museum exhibition

The African American Museum in Dallas will open a new exhibition, "Sunday Call to Church: The Art of Clementine Hunter," on December 5, 2025. The show brings together 22 paintings collected by Bank of Texas chairman Norman Bagwell and four works from the museum's own holdings, featuring the self-taught Louisiana painter who began creating art at age 50. Hunter, born on a plantation in 1887, worked as a field laborer and house worker at Melrose Plantation, painting from memory scenes of worship, work, and community life in the rural South.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 3, 2025 visibility 9 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

‘Crossing Lines’ exhibition in Design District brings South African art to North Texas

A new exhibition titled 'Crossing Lines: Contemporary Voices from Zimbabwe & South Africa' has opened in the Dallas Design District, showcasing work by three artists—Lloyd Maluleke, Nothando Chiwanga, and Pardon Mapondera. The show is a collaboration between DHV Artworks and the Indibano Art Residency, a Dallas-based program founded by Zimbabwean-born arts advocate Bukekile Dube. The artists explore themes of identity, movement, cultural boundaries, and ecology through mediums including painting, printmaking, photography, mixed media, and recycled materials.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 11, 2025 visibility 11 link 7 artists

This North Texas art exhibition is one of the few centering the South Asian diaspora

The Museum of Asian Texans in Dallas is hosting "Untitled Homeland," an exhibition featuring over a dozen artists from the South Asian diaspora, including Anusha Sekhar and Kyla Gaganam. The show, open until Nov. 15, includes mixed-media works, photographs, artifacts, and a Telugu film, exploring themes of cultural heritage, migration, fast fashion, colorism, and caste. It is presented by the Dallas Asian American Historical Society and curated by Gaganam, who centered Desi women artists in the selection.

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