Eagle Family Plaza

The DMA's Renovation is almost complete. While there's still a little more to finish in the cafe inside, the outdoor seating area is now open!

Now you can enjoy all the goodies from the cafe in the fresh air (Dallas weather permitting of course...)

Panoramic Mural

The mural in the entrance to the DMA in panoramic view. More information on the mural on The Gift of Life post.

The Greyhound bus included as a bonus item.

Museum Tower and DMA

The Museum Tower sits quietly in the background, debating if there will be enough sun today for it to shoot its solar death ray down at the DMA.

Sadly, there will probably be enough sun for it.

JFK on Art

Quote on the wall at the Dallas Museum of Art for the Hotel Texas exhibit.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth... In free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology. Artists are not engineers of the soul. It may be different elsewhere. But democratic society--in it, the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having 'nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.'

-President John F Kennedy, Amherst College, October 26, 1963

The Big Red Sculpture

Ave, by Mark di Suvero, at the Sothern entrance to the DMA.

The Gift of Life (or Art)

Situated at the main entrance to the Dallas Museum of Art (and its underground parking garage) is a large glass mosaic. The mosaic is 12 feet high and spans an impressive 60 feet in width.

The mosaic, entitled Genesis, the Gift of Life, was created by Miguel Covarrubias as a commission by Peter and Waldo Stewart for the Stewart Building in 1954.  It was moved to the DMA and restored in the early 1990s.

More information on the piece and the artist is available from the DMA Connect website.