Dallas Museum of Art hosts summer exhibits, jazz series
Published: May 22, 2009
This summer the Dallas Museum of Art hosts several new and provocative exhibits, plus the return of Jazz Under the Stars.
On view through Aug. 30, the Dallas Museum of Art hosts Private Universes — a special exhibition of about 80 contemporary works that includes acquisitions, patron gifts, important loans from the Dallas community and the museum’s collections.
The museum recently acquired three major works of contemporary art considered to be among the most important museum holdings of their kind in the United States. Each is featured in the Private Universes exhibition, including Marlene Dumas’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, Jim Hodges’s and still this, and Yayoi Kusama’s Accumulation.
Also on exhibit through Aug. 30 the museum hosts Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance, an intriguing exhibit that has received critical acclaim.
Doherty is a North Irish artists who uses her multimedia art to express the beauty and destruction of her homeland. The collection includes a video installation called Ghost Story accompanied by 11 large-scale color photographs of the Irish landscape that predate Doherty’s work on the video.
From June 2 to Aug. 23, the museum hosts the special community exhibition Through the Eyes of Our Children — Something Beautiful. This exhibit presents photographs made by students from the Dallas Independent School District’s Area 2.
These students, ranging in age from 9 to 17, engaged in a 12-week curriculum focused on the fundamentals of camera operation, photo composition, editing, and more. The result is a collection displaying kids’ points of view on the world around them.
In addition to these new exhibitions, Jazz Under the Stars brings some of the jazz world’s top touring acts to the Dallas Museum of Art this summer. The free music series runs now through June 25, with a new concert every Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Ross Avenue Plaza. Couples, families and friends can bring a picnic basket and blanket and sit on the museum’s lawn to enjoy the music of the night.
While the Jazz Under the Stars series is free, the museum’s latest exhibit’s comes with general admission — $10 for adults, $7 for seniors over 65, and $5 for students who can show a proper school ID card. Kids under 12 and museum members get in free.
Underground parking is available at the Museum’s 400-space garage for $15. Cash and major credit cards are accepted.
For those willing to walk a few blocks, less expensive parking is available at the city-owned lots near the Brewery in the West End at 900 and 1100 McKinney Ave.
After 5 p.m. and on weekends, lots of parking spaces are available for free or for a few dollars around the museum in the Arts District. The nearby Trammell Crow Center has a garage that can be accessed from both Harwood and Olive streets.
- by Jenn Emerson, Dallas Reporter for HelloMetro
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