Want to check out the Dallas Museum of Art collections for free? You can on Friday, May 18, starting at 11 a.m. as the museum celebrates Art Museum Day and International Museum Day.
All musuem patrons will recieve free admission to both the museum's collection and the special exhibition "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties," from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. After that, the DMA will host it's "Late Night" program for half price.
Tomorrow, head over to the DMA for Arts & Letters Live, which will feature authors H.W. Brands and Mark K. Updegrove at 7:30 p.m. Brands will discuss his book "The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr," and Updegrove will talk about his new non-fiction work entitled "Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency."
Monday, May 7
Arts & Letters Live
Texas Bound III: Friday Night Lights
May 7, 2012; 7:30 p.m.
Actors Brad Leland, Glen Morshower, and Steve Walters read stories by T. C. Boyle, Robert McBrearty, and Sarah Vowell. Travel back to high school as we feature stories about football, family relationships, and the joys and sorrows of school, using the show Friday Night Lights as inspiration.
Horchow Auditorium
Wednesday, May 9
Gallery Talk
The Photography of "Youth and Beauty"
May 9, 2012; 12:15 p.m.
Jessica May, Associate Curator of Photographs, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Meet at the Flora Street Visitor Services Desk. Requires an exhibition ticket to Youth And Beauty: Art of the American Twenties.
Arts & Letters Live
Wit & Wisdom: H. W. Brands & Mark K. Updegrove
May 9, 2012; 7:30 p.m.
As an author of twenty-two works of nonfiction, it seems there is little that H. W. Brands doesn’t know about our country’s history. His newest book, The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr, is the second in his American Portraits series, a collection of books that “take moments and individuals who have interesting stories on their own, stories that are gripping in their own right, and use them to illuminate certain themes in American history.”Mark K. Updegrove has loved presidential history ever since he attended the U.S. Bicentennial celebration in 1976. Now the Director of the LBJ Library and Museum in Austin, his newest book is Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency.
Horchow Auditorium
Thursday, May 10
Thursday Night Live 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Jazz in the Atrium
The Ron Jones Group
May 10, 2012; 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Composer Ron Jones leads an ensemble of players performing his original compositions and other arrangements of jazz standards.
Atrium
Free with general admission
Exhibition Special Event
Face to Face: A Conversation on Collecting
May 10, 2012; 7:00 p.m.
Join Dr. Maxwell L. Anderson, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, for a discussion with Margaret McDermott, Dr. Anne Bromberg, Dan Boeckman, and Marguerite Hoffman, celebrating the exhibition Face to Face: International Art at the DMA. Together they will explore the history and origins of the DMA's collection, share insightful stories and unique perspectives on collecting art from various cultures and centuries, discuss the power of partnerships and transformational gifts, and explore future trends in collecting.
Horchow Auditorium
Free with general admission
Friday, May 11
Saturday, May 12
Studio Creations
May 12, 2012; 1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Compare works of art in the Face to Face: International Art at the DMA exhibition and pick two of your favorites. In the studio, use your selected artwork to create a new creation in an art mash-up!
C3, Art Studio
Free with general admission
Undermain Reads: Color Struck
Presented in partnership with Undermain Theatre
May 10, 2012; 2:00 p.m.
Undermain Theatre continues their popular reading series with a staged reading of Zora Neale Hurston's playColor Struck. Performed in connection with the DMA's exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties,* Hurston's 1925 play explores issues of self-perception, fragmentation, and colorism. Exemplifying the cultural and intellectual blossoming of the Harlem Renaissance, this stirringly unapologetic tragedy is still relevant today.
Horchow Auditorium
Free with general admission