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Buried Treasures
Sifting through stored collections, the Dallas Museum of Art discovers a tradition of spiritual subtlety among Texas artists.
Texas’ major museums have lately taken to revealing in public some of their best-kept secrets: They own substantial collections of Texas art, which are usually relegated to the storage vaults. Last year the Houston Museum of Fine Arts offered an intriguing sampler of its five-hundred-plus-piece Texas collection. The latest unveiling, at the Dallas Museum of Art, is “The State I’m In: Texas Art at the DMA,” more than one hundred items selected by curator Annegreth Nill from a trove representing at least 250 Texas-born or Texas-based artists. (Later this month, the San Antonio Museum Association will also air its collection of Texas art, some dating back to 1845, at the Witte Museum.)
The Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, has announced a major exhibition of Spanish dress and fashion that will pair paintings from the Meadows’s collection with historic dress and accessories from the Museo del Traje, Centro de Investigación del Patrimonio Etnológico in Madrid. Canvas & Silk: Historic Fashion from Madrid’s Museo del Traje marks the first major collaboration between this important Spanish institution and an American museum and will include approximately 40 works from the Meadows .
Meadows Museum celebrates the 20th anniversary of its 66,000-square-foot building
Exterior of the Meadows Museum and its sculpture plaza with Santiago Calatravas Wave (2002) in foreground and Gerald J. Ford Stadium in background. Photo by Hillsman Jackson.
DALLAS, TX
.- This year marks the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Meadows s 66,000-square-foot building, which is six times larger than the museums original space. Since its opening in 2001, the Meadows has become one of the most prominent university art museums in the country. It is internationally recognized for the quality of its collection of Spanish masterpieces by old masters to contemporary artists with one of the largest holdings of Spanish art outside of Spain. Artists represented include Velázquez, Ribera, El Greco, Murillo, Goya, Miró, Picasso and Dalí. Devotion to scholarship, innovative interpretation and prestigious partnerships with major art institutions and cultural organizations have made the
Shop Steward: Coursey says his father “always had a reasonably well-equipped workshop just for playing in.” He has used his own studio, which he built himself a few decades ago, to build enough furniture to put two kids through private school.
Elizabeth Lavin
Is Tim Coursey the Finest Artist Dallas Has Ever Produced?
And if he is, then why haven t you heard of him? He calls himself a furniture maker, and that s not untrue. But he s much more than that.
ast year, Tim Coursey published his first short story, “Shelda: A Fable Involving a Well,” in
Southwest Review, SMU’s long-running literary quarterly. It was an impressive feat for a couple of reasons. One, though he has delighted friends for years with his emails the writer David Searcy calls them “sometimes incomprehensible little gems” Coursey started writing in earnest just a few years ago. And, two, he was 72 years old at the time.