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Denver vs. Dallas: Measuring the Art Museums

January 25, 2014 by Marion Maneker

Denver Museum
Denver Museum

It’s a regional thing here in the US but Colorado and Texas have a lot of animosity towards each other. Denver recently received a $100m gift of 22 landscapes, including works by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Eugène Boudin and Edouard Manet. That might stir things up a little but as the Dallas News’s art critic explains, it turns out they have somewhat similar histories when it comes to establishing art museums:

Dallas and Denver aren’t known primarily for their cultural tourism. Tourists to Denver generally head to the mountains. Visitors to Dallas tend to be conventioneers, sports fans or shoppers.

Both cities were founded at roughly the same time, in the mid-19th century, but Denver was wealthier in the 19th century, while Dallas surpassed it in both wealth and population in the second half of the 20th century. The cities founded their downtown art museums 10 years apart — in 1893 for Denver and 1903 for Dallas — but Denver’s grew more quickly and now has a collection of about 70,000 artworks, compared to the DMA’s roughly 25,000.

The Denver Art Museum has harnessed attention-getting architecture. The campus boasts two buildings by major figures: the only building in the U.S. from midcentury-modern Italian master Gio Ponti, which opened in 1971, and a boastful geometric explosion of metal-clad forms by New York-based Daniel Libeskind, which opened in 2006.

By contrast, the DMA’s discreet limestone boxes by Edward Larrabee Barnes seem almost unassuming.

How does Denver’s art scene compare to Dallas’? (Dallas Morning News)

Denver Art Museum to acquire its first van Gogh, Cézanne, four by Monet (The Denver Post)

The Broiling of Dallas’s Museum District

July 30, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Nasher Museum Shade

The long-running battle between the Nasher Sculpture Center and nearby Museum Tower over the building’s reflective glare’s effect on the museum, its gardens and the surrounding neighborhood took an awkward turn recently as surrounding museums and the broader Dallas Arts District join in the fight:

According to the Morning News, the consultant behind the fake accounts, former television news anchor Mike Snyder, used the personas to post comments that sided with the Museum Tower’s owners, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, on news stories about the controversy.Continue Reading

Marguerite Hoffman Speaks

May 18, 2010 by Marion Maneker

The Dallas Morning News has a statement from Marguerite Hoffman, the Dallas collector who is suing David Martinez for breaking his confidentiality promise in the purchase of last week’s top Rothko lot by selling it auction:

“When Robert and I made our bequest gift to the Dallas Museum of Art,” Hoffman said in a statement released Monday, “one of the key components that made the gift possible and exciting was the opportunity to continue to edit and refine our collection during our lifetimes.

“This means that while I am alive, pieces will be added and subtracted to the collection. That is the nature of the gift, and that characteristic ensures that the collection stays dynamic and fresh. It also allows for reluctant sales like that of the Rothko, which occurred after the death of my husband.” Continue Reading

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