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Best Reason to Stay Up Late
Award Winner 2011

Hours: Sun,Tue,Wed,Fri,Sat 11am-5pm, Thu 11am-9pm

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Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for senior citizens and $5 for students with current school identification. General admission is free on the first Tuesday of each month and on Thursday nights from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Texas in the Twenties: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from Lone Star Collections

11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. from March 4 until July 1

This exhibition features 30 works by L. O. Griffith, Mary Anita Bonner and Eugene Omar Goldbeck.
Drop-In Art

1:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun.

Families can create art projects inspired by current exhibits. In the Gateway Gallery.
Family Films

2:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun.

A different film is shown each month in the Orientation Theater.
Collections Highlights Tours

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun.

Explore items from the museum's permanent collection in this free (with paid museum admission) series.
Art Stop

1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. every Sun.

A different treasure is examined each time.

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2011 | Best Reason to Stay Up Late

The Dallas Museum of Art is hardly the first museum in the world to realize that people might rather spend a Friday night in the company of its collection than alongside the Drunky McDrunkerson set, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that they've taken the idea and truly embraced it. Every third Friday of the month, the museum bucks its self-inflicted 5 p.m. close time and entertains the masses until midnight. And we really do meant "entertain." Beyond the art, the museum comes alive... More »
2010 | BEST ART GALLERY

Bill Engvall: from Dallas comedy clubs to overnight star, give or take a few years What a doll. A talking doll actually. Its official name is the Bill Engvall Blue Collar Comedy Tour Talking Plush Doll, part of a set that includes comics Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White. Engvall in fine plush costs $15.95. Requires three AAA batteries. Chirps a dozen of his best lines. Sample: "The only reason I got married--my gym membership ran out." A talking doll isn't an Oscar, but... More »
2009 | Best Free Garden

You may think downtown Dallas is the last place on earth you'd go to relax, but you're missing out. Located in the heart of downtown is a free sculpture garden shaded by mature oaks and filled with pools of water and forceful waterfalls. The large area is surrounded by 12-foot concrete walls draped in twisted ivy, so the traffic noise is muffled. The sculptures placed throughout the garden are made of bronze, stone or wood, like the French Henri Laurens abstract bronze from 1937. The large... More »
2008 | Best Art Exhibit

Considering the fact that we don't really like The Smiths (blame our college roommates), we weren't really sure about "Phil Collins: the world won't listen," the three-screen video installation presented earlier this year by the Dallas Museum of Art. But damn, if it wasn't the most entertaining thing we've ever seen in a museum, with the 1987 Smiths compilation, The World Won't Listen, repeating on a loop as fans from Colombia, Turkey and Indonesia sang along karaoke-style on each of the... More »
2008 | Best Friday Night

Enough with overpriced happy hours and the sad effects of forgoing dinner for the movie theater: popcorn tummy. Ew. Instead, head to the Dallas Museum of Art's perfect date, the Late Night. On the third Friday of each month, our beloved purveyor of fine art stays open till Cinderella's curfew. For 10 bucks or less (DMA members and tykes under 12 get in for free), visitors can enjoy art, live music performances, movie screenings (past events have included classics, indie, new releases and art... More »
2007 | Best Cheap Date

It's downtown Dallas at its best. On the third Friday of every month, the Dallas Museum of Art hosts the best party in town, opening its doors and its collection until midnight. Anchored off the glimmering Dallas skyline, the museum is an especially festive place at night, inviting to art lovers and partygoers alike. With tickets only $10, an evening at the museum won't tear through your checkbook like the rest of the Dallas late-night scene, and with a provoking modern art... More »
2004 | Best After-Hours Cultural Fix

Going to the museum is a lot like going to church: It occurs during the daylight hours (usually Sunday), it's good for you (read: boring), there's an endless supply of old people around, and whatever you do, you can't make a peep. That's why the DMA's Late Nights series is such a revelation. Running once a month on Fridays from 6 p.m. to midnight, the series opens up those echoing, hallowed halls to bands, DJs, films, wine tastings, twilight gallery tours and more. It's kind of like the... More »
2003 | Best Place For Your Kid To Create a Masterpiece

Each fall and spring, budding Cassatts and Renoirs have the opportunity to participate in the DMA's Art Exploration Classes. Small groups of kids 3 to 5 years old, each with a parent or guardian, spend an hour on a single artistic element such as color, patterns or texture. And because the classes explore the DMA as well as create there, they provide the perfect demystifying opportunity for kids to learn to feel comfortable in a museum. "We begin by pretending that we're detectives as we... More »
2003 | Best Family Art Outing

If public schools paid one-tenth the attention to arts education that the Dallas Museum of Art does, the world would be a better place. Education is at least half of the DMA's mission, and programming for children, with families encouraged to participate, is plentiful and of exceptional quality. The museum's Gateway Gallery is the focal point for young children and parents to learn about art--not only the stuff in the museum's collections but work by local artists who lead free sketching... More »
2003 | Best Moonlit Picnic

An unauthorized sprawl on the Dallas Museum of Art's manicured grass in the dark, however appealing, will get you at least 20 hours in the city jail, assuming someone agrees to bail you out. See, they've got really priceless art in that building, and plenty of security guards to make sure it stays there. A nighttime prowl between Harwood and St. Paul streets is tempting, though. If you've ever had a hankering to wander the DMA's park-like grounds at night, to look up at the stars between the... More »
2001 | Best Toy Store

Skip the chains and find something unique for your young'un. They have both educational and the just-plain-fun variety of playthings at the museum's colorful store. If you take the tykes, you'll have to steer them clear of the fine blown glass and objets d'art. But you might even inject a little culture into their pea-sized brains at the same time as supplying their expensive toy habits. And isn't that nicer than Barbieland or Gameboy speak More »
2000 | Best art museum

The DMA does not win by default. Dallas' one and only combines the best aspects of art museums from across the metroplex. It has the regional art and historical objects of the Amon Carter and Kimbell. It showcases new talent and cutting-edge, contemporary works as do the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Arlington Museum of Art. Its large, continuously displayed permanent collection puts it over the top, allowing it to highlight acquisitions in special-themed exhibits and... More »
2000 | Best outing with the kids

When most parents head downtown with the tykes in tow for a cultural or educational experience, they plan to visit somewhere obvious like The Science Place, but we think the DMA offers a great alternative. For starters, the price is right: free. But then on weekends in the afternoon, the Junior League of Dallas women (who transplant a little bit of Highland Park inside the museum's high walls) set up an art-project room where children and their parents can try their hand at making mobiles,... More »

Stretch Your Brain

By Sarah Kramer | Thu, April 05, 2012

Forget badly painted ceramics or knitted dolls and open up your mind to broader avenues of arts, crafts and thinking with the Dallas Museum of Art’s Think Creatively workshops. Dr. Magdalena Grohman, resident creativity expert at the DMA, will lea... More »
Kid-Lit And Grown-Up Flicks, Stay Young At The DMA

By Jennifer Davis-lamm | Thu, March 15, 2012

The literature that starts to fill up your house when you have a little one is one of the best parts of being a parent. Board books, pop-up books, picture books and more fill your shelves, litter the floors and scatter underfoot — each taking the ... More »
Get Your Family Hooked on Art

By Jennifer Davis-lamm | Thu, March 08, 2012

When you grow up in a town whose only museum featured the same quilting exhibit for nearly 12 years, you learn to appreciate the multitude of activities offered for families in our own arts community. One of the best of these activities is the Fam... More »
The Art of Prohibition

By Sarah Kramer | Thu, February 02, 2012

From the debut of the flapper dress to the Wall Street crash, the United States in the '20s was a country in flux. But how did that affect Texas? Throw on your cowboy boots and experience Texas in the Twenties through approximately 30 works by Tex... More »
Love, Hindu Style

By Alex Copeland | Thu, January 05, 2012

Many Westerners are familiar with the Kama Sutra, at least insofar that it's one of the classier sexy guidebooks. But it's more than the world's oldest sexual how-to, dating from the days before Google and the Internet. It's also a guide to spirit... More »
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