Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Feature Photography Exhibition: The Medium and Its Metaphors
Masterworks of American Photography: Landscape
Masterworks of American Photography: Series and Sequences
Ruth Asawa: Organic Meditations
Sargent's Youthful Genius: Paintings from the Clark
51st Young Arkansas Artists
51st Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition
Dan Massad: Recent Work
Dan Massad: Recent Work
The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft
The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft
Fabled Journeys in Asian Art: East Asia
Qualities of Jade
Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business
Encountering Space in the Center for Creative Connections
Face to Face: International Art at the DMA
Texas in the Twenties: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from Lone Star Collections
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
Margarita Cabrera
The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark
A Century of Collage
Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune
Ending Sunday, May 20th
Baroque to Bauhaus: Designs from the Tobin Collection
Rouault’s Miserere
Modern Mexican Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Focus: Ged Quinn
Glenn Ligon: America
Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst
Eye on Third Ward 2012: Jack Yates High School Photography
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection
Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Another Day, Another Dollar: CCC in Palo Duro Canyon
Frocks & Togs: Childrens Clothing from 1900 through the 1950s
Texas Impressionism: Branding with Brushstroke and Color, 1885-1935
Try!: Rodeo on the Southern Plains
Imagenes del Pueblo: Spanish Popular Graphics from the Permanent Collection
San Antonio Collects: Contemporary
San Antonio Collects: Theodore Gentilz and Mission Life of San Antonio and Northern Mexico
Ending Sunday, May 20th
The Chinese Art of Cricket Keeping: The Ernest K. H. Lee Collection
Once again the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense and more than 1,500 museum from all over America will offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families. The Blue Star Museums program will start on Memorial Day, May 28, and end on Labor Day, September 3, 2012.
The El Paso Museum of Art continues to be a proud year round participant of the NEA’s Blue Star Museums Program which grants free admission to ticketed exhibitions for active military personnel and their families with valid ID. Active duty military include Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and active duty National Guard and active duty Reserve members.
Join the El Paso Museum of Art on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in the El Paso Energy Auditorium for Gesture, Style and Function in Modern Mexican Drawing, 1900 – 1950, a lecture by Dr. Karen Cordero Reiman. This free lecture is in conjunction with Magnificent Mexico: 20th Century Modern Masterworks.
Dallas Art News reporter Melanie O’Halloran reviews Mexican Modern Painting from the Andres Blastein Collection currently on view at the Meadows Museum through August 12, 2012.
Carol Robbins, The Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Curator of the Arts of the Americas and the Pacific, is retiring after forty-seven years of service to the Dallas Museum of Art. In appreciation of her nearly fifty years of Museum work, and of her renowned curatorial expertise in ethnographic textiles, Robbins has been appointed Curator Emerita.
Reserve your ticket now for A Conversation and Book Signing with Chris Matthews – news broadcaster, author and political commentator. Moderated by KERA’s Lee Cullum, Matthews will discuss President Kennedy’s enduring legacy and the current state of politics in this momentous presidential election year.
C. D. Dickerson, curator of European art at the Kimbell Art Museum, will present a lecture entitled “In Search of Casanova: A Journey through 18th-Century Europe” as part of the Museum’s “Art in Context” series, on Wednesday, May 23, at 12:30 p.m., in the Museum auditorium. Admission is free.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces that it has received a $75,000 Access to the Artist Archives digitization grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the return of Storytime. This free public program for young children and their families is held every Wednesday, June 6–July 25 (except July 4), from 10:30–11:30 a.m., and brings the museum’s artworks to life through engaging children’s stories and related art activities.
Artists Oscar Moya and Lydia Limas lead this workshop for adults and children age 3 and up to create art by including leaves and weeds in a drawing or painting on a board which is then transferred onto paper with a press. The result is a unique collagraph print or monoprint which can be framed and taken home or given as a gift. All materials are provided. To register, those interested should contact the museum before May 26 at 915-755-4332. This workshop is sponsored by the City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced today that it will offer free admission as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) Art Museum Day, coinciding with International Museum Day on Friday, May 18, 2012.
The Dallas Museum of Art is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2012 Awards to Artists and travel grants. This year, ten artists received awards in one of three categories: the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund, the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund, and the Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant.
Laura Moore Fine Art Studio — A working artist's studio and gallery. Check this one out in McKinney, Texas.
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Dead Photographers Society — Photographers who still find pleasure in taking pictures the old fashioned way with film, chemicals and a dark room.
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