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21 Years of Silver Supper
This past Friday was the 21st anniversary of Silver Supper, an annual event that celebrates the DMA’s outstanding holdings of American decorative arts and silver. This year’s Silver Supper highlighted… more →
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21 Years of Silver Supper
wrote 2 months ago: This past Friday was the 21st anniversary of Silver Supper, an annual event that celebrates the DMA’ … more →
Soup's On
wrote 2 months ago: In a museum the size of the DMA, it’s hard to keep track of isolated changes over 370,000 square fee … more →
Red, White, and Blue
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wrote 10 months ago: Some visitors to the DMA may have taken our self-guided tour Seeing Red, and loyal readers of our bl … more →
Seldom Scene: Installing Form/Unformed
wrote 1 year ago: A look back at the installation of Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present, the first compreh … more →
Boogie-Woogie April - Jazz Appreciation Month
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wrote 1 year ago: April celebrates one of the most joyous and “most American” music styles—jazz. In fact, jazz is such … more →
"Like a Virgin": Countdown to Gaultier's First Exhibition
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wrote 1 year ago: Last week several of my colleagues and I began meeting about the logistics of deinstalling the exhib … more →
Big Love from Jean Paul Gaultier
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wrote 1 year ago: You may have heard that the U.S. Premiere of The Fashion World From Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sid … more →
Live from the Red Carpet: Gaultier Opens in Montreal
wrote 1 year ago: An entry to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts with exhibition banner above As the DMA’s curator for t … more →
Designing Women (and the Cure for Mad Men Withdrawal)
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wrote 1 year ago: In summers past, our reward for coping with insufferably hot temperatures and an endless parade of r … more →
Designing Stickley
wrote 2 years ago: Hello, everyone! DMA resident exhibition designer Jessica Harden here to give you a short and sweet … more →
All That Jazz: Meet Our Resident Jazz Legend
wrote 2 years ago: As a special treat for our Dallas Museum of Art jazz (and other music) lovers—and in celebration of … more →
Seldom Scene: Love Designed
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wrote 2 years ago: A Date to the DMA: The Center for Creative Connections invites you this spring to explore the Encoun … more →
Setting the Exhibition Stage: Gustav Stickley
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wrote 2 years ago: Have you ever wished you could see what goes on behind closed doors at the Museum before an exhibiti … more →
Wright in Your Own Backyard
wrote 2 years ago: This weekend the Museum will open Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio, an ex … more →
Form/Unformed: Building a Collection of Modern and Contemporary Design at the DMA
wrote 2 years ago: As the curator of decorative arts and design for the DMA, I oversee a collection of nearly 8,000 wor … more →
Do-It-Yourself Stickley
wrote 2 years ago: “When we come to make things ourselves . . . we should not only find more pleasure in making them bu … more →
Celebrating the Silver: The Reves Collection at Twenty-Five
wrote 2 years ago: We just celebrated the silver anniversary of the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection and ever since its … more →
From Idea to Exhibition
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wrote 2 years ago: There are few moments in a curator’s career more thrilling than the realization of a major exhibitio … more →
Uncrating Stickley: A Registrar's Report
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wrote 2 years ago: Just before Labor Day I left Dallas for New Jersey to be on-site for the uncrating and installation … more →
