Though the Dallas Museum of Art’s offer last year to buy Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (circa 1499–1512) was declined, plenty of other Old Master works will soon be on their way to the institution. The museum announced today a $17 million gift from Marguerite Steed Hoffman, a trustee and former chairman of the museum, specifically aimed at European art from before 1700. Read More
The Dallas Museum of Art has announced that it has reattributed a landscape painting, which has been in the museum’s collection since 1931, to the celebrated American landscape artist George Inness. At the time the painting, then titled In the Woods, was given to the museum, it was thought to be the work of Asher B. Durand, a leader of the Hudson River school of painting. Read More
The Dallas Museum of Art has a peculiar show in store for the spring. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy, the museum will present “Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy,” which opens May 26, 2013, and features artwork that was in the Fort Worth hotel suite of the Kennedys, the last place they stayed before President Kennedy was assassinated. Read More
Maxwell Anderson has run the Whitney Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and currently directs the Dallas Museum of Art. He’s also a Dartmouth alumnus, Class of 1977, as it happens, and he recently explained in a Q&A published in The Dartmouth newspaper how he figures out what to work on when he arrives at a new institution. Read More
The Dallas Museum of Art has named Mark Leonard its chief conservator. The position, which is newly created for Mr. Leonard, follows a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Leonard comes from the Getty Center, where he has served for 12 years as the head of the paintings conservation department. Read More
Sadly for artist Mark Grotjahn, what happens in Dallas doesn’t stay in Dallas, at least if it makes its way onto The Dallas Mornings News‘s Pop Culture Blog.
Today, columnist Alan Peppard brought us an unsettling scene from last night’s Two by Two for AIDS and Art gala, which was held at the estate of collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky. Read More
