Crow Museum of Asian Art unveils 2025-26 exhibitions

 This fall, the Crow Museum of Asian Art announces seven new exhibitions opening across its Dallas Arts District and UT Dallas campus locations, alongside a robust schedule of public programs and community events. 

These exhibitions – paired with community programs like lectures, concerts, a family-fun Community Day, and the return of the Mystical Arts of Tibet weeklong sand mandala/painting residency – reflect the Crow Museum’s mission to celebrate Asian art and culture across time, space, and media.

Four Sisters, 1985, Cecilia Chiang, Chinese-American

Fall 2025 Exhibitions

This season’s new exhibitions will be on view across the Crow Museum’s two locations in the Dallas Arts District (2010 Flora St., Dallas) and the new museum space at the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum on the UT Dallas campus (800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson). Please note the specific location for each museum. Admission is free for both museums.

Groundbreakers Post-War Japan and Korea from the DMA Collection

Crow Museum of Asian Art – UT Dallas campus

Groundbreakers: Post-War Japan and Korea from the DMA Collection

Sept. 6, 2025-July 26, 2026

In partnership with the Dallas Museum of Art, Groundbreakers brings together artists who played with materiality, space and performance in postwar Japan and Korea after the 1950s.

[ _____] Mirage

Sept. 20, 2025-March 1, 2026

This immersive 360-degree multimedia installation draws on sound, video and environmental data collected in the American Southwest. The digital art experience is designed by Sara Dittrich, an interdisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, and SV Randall, UT Dallas Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts.

Mounds and Mist: Kondo Traditions in Clay

Sept. 27, 2025-May 31, 2026

A focused exhibition examining the layered legacy of Kondo ceramic traditions, this exhibition celebrates the achievement of four members of the Kondo family: Kondo Yuzo (1902–1985); his sons Yutaka (1932–1983) and Hiroshi (1936–2012); and his grandson Takahiro (born 1958).

Whiskers and Paws: Cecilia Chiang

Oct. 4, 2025-March 8, 2026

A playful and poignant exhibition celebrating the emotional bonds between humans and their beloved companions, Whiskers and Paws is an excerpt of self-taught artist Cecilia Chiang’s nature-focused work and primarily serves as a nod to her childhood.

Squaring the Circle, 2025, Eliza Au, Canadian

Crow Museum of Asian Art – Dallas Arts District

Fire and Earth: Early Chinese Pottery from the MacLean Collection

Sept. 20, 2025-Sept. 27, 2026

A remarkable look at early Chinese ceramic traditions drawn from one of the most significant private collections in the U.S., this exhibition – consisting of 45 pottery vessels selected from the MacLean Collection – offers insight into ancient craftsmanship, aesthetic innovation and the material culture of early China.

Paper Knife: Objects of Beauty in Early Modern Japan

Nov. 8, 2025-Aug. 29, 2027

Exploring the artistry and refinement of small-scale decorative objects, this exhibition highlights the cultural value and craftsmanship embedded in daily-use items in early modern Japan.

Eliza Au: Squaring the Circle (Texas Ties series)

Nov. 15, 2025-March 1, 2026

Featuring intricately designed ceramic sculptures by Texas-born artist Eliza Au, this major solo exhibition explores ornament through the built environment, ceramics and design. Au is the second artist featured in the Crow Museum’s Texas Ties exhibition series, which showcases artists with connections to the Lone Star State.

For more information, visit crowmuseum.org

NFNL Art Showcase

NFNL members have created beautiful images of hope that will be on display at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) from November 22 - January 5.

The DMA believes that art is a gift meant for all, so general admission is FREE. You can reserve your general admission tickets online in advance or on-site at the guest services desk.  The exhibition will be located in the Tower Gallery on Level 4.

www.dma.org

62nd Art Ball Gala Celebrates MOMENTUM

 

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is pleased to announce details for this year’s Art Ball 2024 presented by Neiman Marcus.  Entitled "MOMENTUM,” this year’s fundraiser will celebrate 62 years of remarkable achievements on Saturday, April 13, 2024. This spectacular evening will take place at the DMA and feature an evening of dinner, drinks, a live auction, and an exciting afterparty.

Leading this year’s efforts are co-chairs Andy Smith and Paul von Wupperfeld. Both gentlemen bring their enthusiasm for helping the community and professional expertise to their role as co-chairs of Art Ball 2024. A fifth-generation Texan, Smith is the director of Giving and Volunteering for Texas Instruments and is the executive director of the TI Foundation. von Wupperfeld is currently the public relations manager at Qorvo semiconductor, where he leads the company’s social media and press communications. 

Co-Chairs Paul von Wupperfeld and Andy Smith

Momentum was selected as this year’s theme as it embodies the pulsating force propelling the Dallas Museum of Art forward, infusing the Dallas Arts District with a vibrant sense of energy and progression. Just as an object in motion stays in motion, the Dallas Museum of Art consistently evolves and transforms. Art Ball 2024 aims to honor the Museum's rich history while joyously celebrating the Momentum that drives us onward, ignites artistic creation, and propels us to explore the limitless possibilities the future has in store.

Tickets start at $3,500 and all proceeds of the Art Ball will directly support the DMA’s commitment to presenting diverse exhibitions, providing innovative educational and public programs, and caring for a collection of 25,000 objects—all while offering engaging access to incredible works of art.

To purchase tickets or learn more about the various sponsorship levels, customizable benefits, and opportunities for creative brand visibility, please email artball@dma.org.

Arts & Letters Live: Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt at DMA

Tuesday, March 17, 7:30 p.m.

Written with grace and understanding, and based on more than 20 in-depth interviews and stories as well as personal reflections from Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt herself, The Gift of Forgiveness is about one of the most difficult challenges in life—learning to forgive. The book features experiences from those well known and unknown, including Elizabeth Smart, who learned to forgive her captors; Sue Klebold, whose son, Dylan, was one of the Columbine shooters, learning empathy and how to forgive herself; Chris Williams, who forgave the drunken teenager who killed his wife and child; and Schwarzenegger Pratt's challenges and path to forgiveness in her own life. All provide different journeys to forgiveness and the process—sometimes slow and thorny, sometimes almost instantaneous—by which they learned to forgive and let go.

Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt is a New York Times bestselling author, animal advocate, sister, wife, stepmom, and daughter of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger. As an author, she has skillfully translated her own personal experiences into her books, all of which speak to her generation. 

"When we learn to embrace forgiveness, it opens us up to healing, hope, and a new world of possibility."

— Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt

TICKET PRICES

All tickets include a hardcover copy of The Gift of Forgiveness. 

https://dma.org/programs/event/katherine-schwarzenegger-pratt

Tembi Locke in conversation at DMA

Tuesday, February 18, 7:30 p.m.

Tembi Locke 

In conversation with Krys Boyd of KERA 

Tembi Locke is a Hollywood actor, TEDx speaker on resilience, advocate, and New York Times bestselling author of From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club x Hello Sunshine pick and is being adapted into a Netflix series, directed by Witherspoon. Author Laila Lalami praises it as “a marvelous memoir about taking chances, finding love, and building a home away from home. In From Scratch, Tembi Locke writes movingly about loss, grief, and the healing miracle of food.” The book includes 16 recipes from Locke’s summers in Sicily. 

https://dma.org/programs/event/tembi-locke

Letters Aloud at DMA

Monday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.

Horchow Auditorium 

Back by popular demand, but with a new themed performance for Dallas audiences! Real letters by real people, read by great actors in a two-hour performance. Letters Aloud was founded in 2013 by Paul Morgan Stetler as a way to connect a live audience to famous (and infamous) historical figures through their intimate personal correspondence. Funny and poignant, with live musical accompaniment and a dynamic slideshow, a Letters Aloud evening is guaranteed to inspire! As one fan said, “It’s like literary crack.”

Love Me or Leave Me features letters of loving, longing, and leaving. Take a trip from the romantically sublime to the pathetically ridiculous. From awkward courtship to horrible breakups to loves of a lifetime and lifetimes of love, Letters Aloud has it all in missives that range from steamy to sweet. Hear from the likes of Mark Twain, Frida Kahlo, Charles Bukowski, George Carlin, Virginia Woolf, Napoleon Bonaparte, and a nice kid who grew up to be Slash. “Reality TV’s got nothing on us!”

TICKET PRICES

Public: $30

Member/Educator: $25

Student: $15

https://dma.org/programs/event/letters-aloud

Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art — Opening at DMA

Opening of Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art

Sunday, February 16

Dallas Museum of Art

Explore the changing representations of women in modern Mexican art through works by Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Frida Kahlo, María Izquierdo, Diego Rivera, and Francisco Dosamantes, among others, including the monumental painting Flores Mexicanas by Ramos Martínez, on view for only the second time in nearly a century.

https://dma.org/art/exhibitions/flores-mexicanas-women-modern-mexican-art

Second Thursdays at the Dallas Museum of Art

Second Thursdays at the Dallas Museum of Art

5:00–9:00 p.m.

Tickets $5 (Some exhibitions require additional tickets on this evening)

FREE for DMA Members  

Thursday, August 10: Don't You Forget About Me

Take a unique and unexpected look at the Museum’s collection with a pop culture twist. Travel back to the 80s with John Hughes, high school angst, and the glory of synthesizers and shoulder pads.

PRETTY IN PINK – Experience 80s prom all night in our Atrium.

- Photo booth
- 80s table games
- DJ and a dance floor 

IN THE SIMPLEST TERMS

All night, Concourse
Find out if you are a brain, an athlete, a basketcase, a princess, or a criminal with our quiz.

TRAX RECORDS

5:00–6:30 p.m. Atrium
Grab a drink and kick off your night listening to 80s hits spun by DJ Derek Lynn.

FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF

6:30 p.m., Meet at the Visitor Services Desk
Tour the collection through the lens of John Hughes’s infamous museum scene. 

TWIST AND SHOUT

7:00–9:00 p.m., Atrium
Jam out to your favorite songs from Madonna, Prince, and many more with Live 80.

Upcoming Schedule

September 14: Smooth Criminal
October 12: Mischief Managed
November 9: Who Run the World?
December 14: In a Galaxy Far, Far Away
January 11: Ice Ice Baby

Dior Spring-Summer Preview Hosted by Art Ball Chairs

On March 21, Art Ball 2017 Chairs Ann and Lee Hobson hosted friends for an intimate preview of Dior’s Spring-Summer Collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri at the Dior boutique in Highland Park Village.

A percentage of sales benefited Dallas Museum of Art.

Photos by Maripol

Art Ball 2017 Chair Ann Hobson and Maripol

Jennifer Karol and Maripol

Irina Khirsh

Elaine Phuah and Leon Tio

National Breast Cancer Foundation Art of Hope Gala Featuring Honored Speaker Mrs. Laura Bush

Tickets available online at www.nbcfgala.org

dalpass 2015 during Dallas Art Fair

 

The 2015 dalpass grants you access to the Dallas Art Fair during all open hours April 9 - 12, 2015. 
 

Wednesday, April 8th

Dallas Contemporary Members Opening Celebration
David Salle + Nate Lowman + RETNA7 PM – 10 PMDallas Contemporary

Dallas Contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and fresh ideas from regional, national and international artists. Modeled after European art centers and located in an industrial building in the Design District, Dallas Contemporary is one of the only institutions of its kind in the United States, offering temporary exhibitions, important lectures and seminal learning programs.

 

Thursday, April 9th

Dallas Art Fair VIP Preview Luncheon11 AM – 2 PM1807 Ross Avenue

The VIP Luncheon offers art patrons and top collectors the opportunity to preview and purchase exhibited works prior to the opening of the Dallas Art Fair.

Dallas Art Fair Preview Gala7 PM – 10 PM 

Friday, April 10th

The Goss-Michael Foundation Breakfast

Breakfast with Artist Michael Craig-Martin

9 AM – 11 AM

The Goss-Michael Foundation

 

Private Tours of Nasher Collection and Melvin Edwards: Five Decades

5 – 7 PM

Nasher Sculpture Center

Enjoy private tours of the renowned Nasher Collection as well as the exhibition Melvin Edwards: Five Decades, a retrospective of the renowned American sculptor.

 

MTV RE:DEFINE Gala Dinner and Art Auction

7 PM

The Goss-Michael Foundation

The MTV Staying Alive Foundation, together with The Goss-Michael Foundation and Dallas Contemporary, present the fourth annual RE:DEFINE, a world-premiere art exhibition, auction, and gala featuring world-renowned contemporary artists. The evening, co-chaired by sisters Kimberly Schlegel Whitman, Kari Schlegel-Kloewer, and Krystal Schlegel, hosted by Joyce Goss and Kenny Goss and honoring Michael Craig Martin will feature a live auction led by auctioneer Alexander Gilkes of Paddle8. All proceeds will benefit Dallas Contemporary and The MTV Staying Alive Foundation, an international organization dedicated to stopping the spread of HIV among young people.

 

Saturday, April 11th

Art Ball 50 After Party

10 PM

Dallas Museum of Art

 

Price: $1,500
To purchase tickets, please CLICK HERE or call 214-220-1278. 
Includes access to additional VIP events during the week. The 2015 dalpass supports the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Contemporary, Nasher Sculpture Center, Goss-Michael Foundation and the MTV Staying Alive Foundation. $1,000 of the $1,500 dalpass will be allocated to MTV RE:Define Gala Dinner and Art Auction, $250 will be allocated to the Art Ball 50 After Party and $250 will be allocated to the Dallas Art Fair Preview Gala.    

DMA Announces Art Ball Theme for 50th Anniversary Celebration

Eugene McDermott Director Maxwell L. Anderson and Art Ball Chairman Nancy Carlson recently announced that Art Ball 50: Self Portrait, benefiting the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), will be held Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Art Ball Chairman Nancy Carlson

Art Ball 50 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Art Ball and will feature a host committee comprised of past Art Ball Chairs. Proceeds from Art Ball directly affect the DMA’s ongoing commitment to providing access to its collection and a wide range of exhibitions and educational and public programs to the community.

Guests gathered in Grange Hall for the highly anticipated announcement party where Anderson and Carlson pronounced that a special year deserves a special theme, and for Art Ball 50, the theme will be “Self Portrait.”

This year’s theme embodies reflection and will also tie in several self--‐portraits by acclaimed artists in the Dallas Museum of Art collection. The 50th annual gala will include a multi--‐course seated dinner, a luxury live auction, and a festive after party chaired by Jackie Bolin and Erin Wasson.

Dallas’ premier party planner, Todd Fiscus of Todd Events, will help to execute Carlson’s vision by creating an ethereal and edgy atmosphere in a tented space through the use of mirror components, projections and bit map technology. After dinner, the area will be transformed into the after party, “Selfie,” where guests will dance the night away.

For more information, as well as underwriting opportunities, please visit www.dma.org or contact the Art Ball Office at artball@DMA.org or 214.922.1353.

DMA's Late Night Creative Cocktail Contest

 

Like wine and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, or salt and pepper, you can create the perfect pair! Dallas Museum of Art's Creative Cocktail Contest is calling all connoisseurs of art and alcohol to create a cocktail inspired by a work of art in their collection.

 

How to enter:
1. Choose a work of art from the DMA’s collection that inspires you.
2. Develop a cocktail recipe inspired by this work of art and create a fun (or even punny) name for the drink.
3. Submit your cocktail name and recipe, and the name of the artwork that inspired you, to publicprograms@DMA.org by Monday, December 1, at 5:00 p.m.

 

DMA staff and Executive Chef will test your recipes and name the winner and four finalists on Monday, January 5.

 

The winner will receive a great prize package, including a DMA partnership, and their cocktail will be featured as the main drink in the Atrium on the January Late Night.  Finalists will receive a signed copy of Tim Federle’s book Tequila Mockingbird, and their drinks will be featured on a special drink menu during the January Late Night.

 

Full contest information is available online at DMA.org/cocktail-contest

 

Danielle Rollins Announced as DMA Art in Bloom Featured Speaker

TheDallas Museum of Art announces Danielle Rollins, best-selling author and contributing editor to Veranda magazine, as the featured speaker for the DMA League’s Art in Bloom 2014.  Chaired by Barbara Durham, with honorary chairman Barbara Bigham, the annual floral symposium and luncheon will be held at the Museum on Monday, October 27, 2014, at 10:30 a.m.  Proceeds benefit the Dallas Museum of Art’s exhibition and education programs and the DMA League’s Floral Endowment Fund.

 

“We are so thrilled to have Danielle Rollins as our featured speaker for this year’s Art in Bloom,” remarked Ms. Durham, Art in Bloom chairman.  “Danielle is not only a wonderful writer, but also an expert on the art of entertaining, including the importance of floral décor.  Her great sense of style and humor, along with her approachable, how-to advice will be a wonderful addition to this year’s fundraiser.”

 

In addition to serving as the contributing editor for Veranda magazine, Rollins is a frequent contributor to Southern Living and Lifestyle.  Author of the bestseller Soirée: Entertaining with Style, she is a dedicated doyenne of domesticity who can guide viewers, readers and listeners on entertaining, cooking, interior design, tabletop, gardening, flower arranging and holiday decorating, in a snap, using her prescriptive, uniquely chic, creative, original, practical and pretty Simple Little Things™, ideas, tips and how-to advice for achieving beauty for everyday living, home decorating and flawless entertaining.

 

Following Rollins’ lecture, guests will enjoy a seated luncheon in the Museum’s Atrium, with centerpieces by floral sponsor Cebolla Fine Flowers, and informal modeling with fashions by Hadleigh’s.  Always a highlight, patrons can bid on art-inspired floral arrangements designed by renowned Dallas florists in the silent auction, as well as live auction items.

 

Luncheon guests will be among the first to view the DMA’s exhibition Bouquets: French Still-Life Painting from Chardin to Matisse, which premieres on October 26, 2014.  The exhibition focuses on the floral still-life genre, which will be a perfect companion to the celebration.

 

Sponsorships for Art in Bloom are available now beginning at $750.  Individual tickets are $175 each and will go on sale on September 1.  For ticket and sponsorship information, call the DMA League office at 214.922.1249 or visit League@DMA.org.

DMA League Unveiled Art in Bloom 2014

The Dallas Museum of Art League unveiled Art in Bloom 2014 with an intimate gathering at Hadleigh’s in Highland Park Village. Chairman Barbara Durham, alongside honorary chair Barbara Bigham, welcomed forty guests to celebrate the upcoming October 27 fundraiser, which will benefit the Dallas Museum of Art.

Rachel Trowbridge, Steve Durham, Julie Rado, Barbara Durham, Art in Bloom 2014 chairman



For the evening, Hadleigh’s owners Gable and Ed Shaikh expanded their bespoke boutique by creating a sleek living area outside enhanced with pots of hot pink peonies courtesy of Cebolla Fine Flowers, the Art in Bloom 2014 floral sponsor and master class host.  Partygoers mingled over wine and hors d’oeuvres as models showcased the store’s custom clothing and luxury accessories.

Bonnie Krauss, model David McKay

Ms. Durham thanked the hosts of the evening, and returing floral sponsor Cebolla, before sharing that Art in Bloom will coincide with the upcoming DMA exhibition, Bouquets: French Still-Life Painting from Chardin to Matisse.  Heather MacDonald, the Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, then spoke briefly about the exhibition she is organizing that focuses on the floral still life genre and which premieres at the DMA on October 26, 2014.

 

Tiffany Divis, Sue Ringle

Art in Bloom will be held on Monday, October 27, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. at the Dallas Museum of Art. The floral symposium and luncheon will feature a floral design expert lecture, elegant luncheon and entertainment and a unique auction of art-inspired signature floral arrangements. Proceeds benefit the  DMA's exhibition and education programs and the DMA League’s Floral Endowment Fund.

 

Tickets are $175; sponsorships begin at $750. For ticket and sponsorship information, call the DMA League office at 214.922.1249 or League@DMA.org