Dallas Museum of Art (DMA)
1717 North Harwood Street, Dallas, 75201
(at NW corner of Harwood & Ross)
Phone: 214-922-1200
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The Dallas Museum of Art recently celebrated one hundred years of connecting art and people. Established in 1903, the Museum features an outstanding collection of more than 23,000 works of art from around the world, from ancient to modern times. The Museum also has a long history of providing varied and dynamic programs, events, and exhibitions to engage visitors more fully with the art.
The Museum contains two restaurants: the casual Atrium Cafe and the upscale Seventeen Seventeen.
Information from the museum's site
Business hours
- Sundays: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Tuesdays: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Wednesdays: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Thursdays: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Fridays: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Saturdays: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Scheduled events
July 2008
- Lecture: he Great Fair: Gerald and Sara Murphy and the World of 1920s Modernism (Thursday, July 24)
- Lecture: The Gordon Parks Guest Lecture Series and Young Photographers Competition (Sunday, July 27)
- Gallery Talk: Cubism 101 (Wednesday, July 30)
August 2008
- First Tuesdays Summer Story Art Walk (Tuesday, Aug. 5)
- Camp “Kidflicks” (Tuesday, Aug. 5)
- Make It/Take It at the Materials Bar (Thursday, Aug. 7)
- Lecture: Currents in New Media and Video Art (Sunday, Aug. 10)
- Gallery Talk: Save the Date: On Kawara, 1969 (Wednesday, Aug. 13)
- Tech Lab: Open Lab (Thursday, Aug. 14)
- Comic Book Club (Thursday, Aug. 14)
- Lecture: Gerald Murphy in Letters, Literature, and Life (Friday, Aug. 15)
- Gallery Talk: Director’s Cut: Museum Edition (Wednesday, Aug. 20)
- See Creatively: See 3 (Thursday, Aug. 21)
- See Creatively: See 3 (Thursday, Aug. 21)
- Gallery Talk: Gerald Murphy and American Brand Cubism (Wednesday, Aug. 27)
- Material of the Month: Uncovered (Thursday, Aug. 28)
- Material of the Month: Uncovered (Thursday, Aug. 28)
September 2008
- Gallery Talk: Spotlight on the Michael L. Rosenberg Collection (Wednesday, Sept. 3)
- Make It/Take It at the Materials Bar (Thursday, Sept. 4)
- Music Festival of India (Saturday, Sept. 6)
- Lecture: Fifth Annual Rosenberg Lecture (Monday, Sept. 8)
- Gallery Talk: The Surface Is Part of the Depth (Wednesday, Sept. 10)
- Tech Lab: Open Lab (Thursday, Sept. 11)
- Comic Book Club (Thursday, Sept. 11)
- Junot Diaz (Sunday, Sept. 14)
- Gallery Talk: Ancient Art of the Americas: Green, Precious, and Stone (Wednesday, Sept. 17)
Recurring events
- Family Film (Starting Sept. 20, 2007)
- Jazz in the Atrium (Starting May 22, 2008)
- Lone Star Legacy II: The Barrett Collection of Contemporary Texas Art (June 22, 2008 - Sept. 14, 2008)
- Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy (June 8, 2008 - Sept. 14, 2008)
- On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 20,834 Pages (May 18, 2008 - Aug. 24, 2008)
- Performances in the Galleries (Starting May 22, 2008)
- Resisting Color: Textiles Tied and Dyed (April 27, 2008 - Aug. 24, 2008)
- Sketching in the Galleries (Sept. 20, 2007 - May 29, 2009)
- Studio Creations (Starting Sept. 20, 2007)
- Summer Story Time with Arturo (June 4, 2008 - Aug. 27, 2008)
- Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson (Nov. 9, 2008 - March 15, 2009)
- Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs (Oct. 3, 2008 - May 17, 2009)
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