Acoustiguide Audio Tour
Experience the largest and most comprehensive retrospective ever held in the United States of the career of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art. The audio tour will guide you through this impressive exhibition of oil paintings and watercolors. Produced by the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the audio tour has been adapted for the Dallas Museum of Art and features four new stops with commentary by Dallas Museum of Art Director Dr. John Lane and curator Dr. Dorothy Kosinski.
The audio guide is free with paid admission to the exhibition and is available for purchase for $6 for members and others who receive free admission to the exhibition.
PREVIEW EXCERPTS FROM THE AUDIO TOUR!
You can download highlights of the J. M. W. Turner audio tour to your MP3 player or listen to them on your computer.
Two options:
1. Download individual audio tour tracks from iTunes (note, Windows users must open iTunes before clicking the link.)
2. Download selections from the audio tour below. MP3s can be loaded on your favorite audio players.
The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 (1822–1824), the largest painting by Turner and his only royal commission, is delivered to the Dallas Museum of Art. (click to play video)
All rights Dallas Museum of Art, 2008
View an episode of KERA–TV's Think - Feb. 8, 2008
Host Krys Boyd discusses the exhibit and the artist with Dorothy Kosinski, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art at the DMA, and Ian Warrell, Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art at the Tate Britain.
