Westerners often see African art as 'folk crafts' — anyone made them. But according to Roslyn Adele Walker, the DMA's senior curator of African art, that's because early explorers weren't interested in individual artists. There actually have been celebrated artists in Africa, and the DMA has one of our country's leading collections of their work. The museum has just released a new, sumptuous book by Dr. Walker, showcasing the collection's riches.

A pair of new exhibitions, All the World’s a Stage and Performance/Art, serve as welcome-to-the-neighborhood parties for the museum’s new Arts District neighbors.

If you could hear a painting, what would it sound like? The Dallas Museum of Art and UT Dallas have created a new interactive program to answer that question.

Gail Nogle is the featured speaker for the Thornton Foundation's 19th Annual Guest Lecturer Series on Saturday at the Dallas Museum of Art. She will draw on decades of experience to inspire young and hungry photography students, but you can meet her here first in this week's Art&Seek Q&A.

This week, Northern Ireland artist Willie Doherty joins us to discuss his new exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art.

The winning design for Make Space for Artists: Design a Studio.

Amy Wynne and Mark Leveno began their adulthoods in engineering and advertising, respectively. But they ultimately found a united calling as a duo in architecture. After spending time in the smog of Los Angeles, they now belong to Dallas. As the creative team behind the winning design of Make [...]

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The television version of Think is on hiatus this week, but they are re-airing one of my favorite episodes of last year tonight. In November, Olafur Eliasson stopped by the studios to discuss his just-opened show, Take Your Time, with host Krys Boyd.
I stopped [...]

If you've ever walked into an art museum to escape the bustle of the noisy outside world, there's a good chance you've encountered a lot more than visual art. North Texas museums host lectures by famous artists and scholars, screenings of art house films and Hollywood classics, and concerts in every musical genre imaginable. As [...]

One-Way Color Tunnel, Olafur Eliasson, 2007
Many viewers will have a blast pondering some of Olafur Eliasson's exhibition Take Your Time at the Dallas Museum of Art — and some will be bored by part of it. An easy enough prediction; one could say it about any exhibition.
But I also predict that, afterwards, there will probably [...]

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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs begins its new tour of three American cities here in Dallas — with a seven-month run at the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibition features 130 objects from ancient Egypt, including a few that have never left Egypt before, such [...]