Exploring Art in Dallas Arts District



Although this isn't related to our current Project 3, I wanted to share my experience visiting 3 art museums in Dallas. A few weeks ago, I had a chance to visit the Dallas Museum of Art, Crow Collection of Asian Art, and Nasher Sculpture Center. The Dallas Museum of Art is one of the largest museums in the US, containing a vast collection of art spanning ancient times to the present. Nearby is the Crow Collection of Asian Art, which displays religious and secular pieces from diverse eras and cultures. Across the street from the Crow Collection is the Nasher Sculpture Center, which exhibits modern masterpieces in a peaceful, nature setting.

Dallas Museum of Art (DMA): There was a lavish collection of impressionist and modern art. 






Claude Monet, French, 1840 to 1926, The Water Lily Pond, 1903 
(Dallas Museum of Art)


Edvard Munch, Thuringian Forest, 1904
(Dallas Museum of Art)



Crow Collection of Asian Art:

There was a new exhibit by Jacob Hashimoto called, Clouds and Chaos. He draws inspiration from clouds as a motif/visual element commonly used in Asian art. Clouds could be anything from a Daoist realm to lingzhi, Chinese medicinal mushrooms. The exhibit’s central work, Nuvole (shown below), explores these formal traditions and looks at how clouds can function as divisions of space while having an ethereal form. The discs he used are commonly reused in his various site installations around the world.






Nasher Sculpture Center:

Below are some photos from the Sterling Ruby: Sculpture exhibit, the first museum exhibition to survey Ruby’s sculptural work. Ruby works with a large variety of media including ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, sculpture and video. In this exhibit, he addresses a range of issues- from societal to personal – and reexamines notions of beauty and value.







Here is the sculpture garden outside the museum:



Having never been to Texas before, I was pleasantly surprised with the level and volume of art in Dallas. It was also especially impressive that most museum admission is free. However, I did find a fascinating article about how Dallas artists can’t afford to live in the location where their art is shown:

- Sheryl

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