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What's NewNew Collections Handbook Highlights Recent Acquisitions across Museum’s Encyclopedic Collection and Showcases DMA’s Transformative Growth Since Its Founding in 1903
The Dallas Museum of Art celebrates more than one hundred years of benefaction from its major donors with the release of a new collection handbook, documenting the Museum’s transformative growth since its founding in 1903. The 368-page, full-color publication provides an overview of the quality, breadth, and depth of the Museum’s encyclopedic collection and emphasizes the tremendous impact of the Museum’s longtime patrons, who enabled the Museum to grow from a regional resource into one of the nation’s leading arts institutions. With an introduction by former Museum director Bonnie Pitman, the guide highlights more than four hundred works of art with new photography and scholarship, and showcases in particular recent gifts and major acquisitions from the past fifteen years. Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection is available in the Museum Store and online at shopDMA.org. The Quality Instinct: Seeing Art Through a Museum Director’s Eye by Maxwell L. Anderson Provides Readers with Insights and Anecdotes on How to See and Judge Art
Maxwell L. Anderson, the newly named Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art and former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, enters the fray with The Quality Instinct: Seeing Art Through a Museum Director’s Eye. Part personal memoir, part thinking person’s guide to the museum, The Quality Instinct is filled with wit, humor, anecdotes, and insights from the author’s thirty years in the highly competitive, often contentious art world. Anderson takes us on a grand tour of ancient and contemporary art, sharing five simple metrics of quality that help us increase our “visual literacy” as we learn to see, not simply look—and yes, to judge. All proceeds from the sales will go directly to the Dallas Museum of Art.
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