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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