Lectures
Arts & Letters Live presents
Robert Edsel: The Monuments MenThursday, November 19, 7:30 p.m., Horchow Auditorium $15 for the public, discounts available to DMA Members, seniors, educators, and students Native Dallasite and SMU alumnus Robert Edsel began his career in the oil and gas exploration business. He moved to Europe in 1966 and settled in Florence where he began to pursue his lifelong interest in the arts. Living among some of the greatest and historically significant works of art in the world, he wondered how all of these monuments and treasures had survived the devastation of World War II, and decided to devote himself to finding the answer. He subsequently coproduced the documentary film, The Rape of Europa (2006), based on the award-winning book by scholar Lynn Nicholas, and co-wrote Rescuing Da Vinci (2006), a photographic history of an art heist of epic proportions and the Allied rescue effort. During his extensive research, Edsel became more and more fascinated by a group of a few hundred museum directors, curators, artists and art historians, whose task was to save and preserve what they could of Europe's great art from Nazi looters. This group was known as The Monuments Men. Edsel and his team worked tirelessly with members of Congress for over a year to develop, and ultimately pass, a resolution in 2007 that for the first time recognized and honored this great team of men & women from 13 nations. He also founded the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, which received the National Humanities Medal in 2007.
 State of the ArtsSelected evenings, 7:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
Included in general admission to the Museum Reserve your seat for the series online. Online reservations will be accepted until 3:00 p.m. on the day of each event. To reserve seats by phone or for more information, call 214-922-1826 or e-mail publicprograms@DallasMuseumofArt.org. The drive to create, the magic of the imagination, and the commitment to their craft—these qualities connect artists, dancers, actors, and musicians. Join Dallas Museum of Art Director Bonnie Pitman and KERA host and producer Jeff Whittington for an innovative new series exploring the creative process and the nature of performance. Hear Dallas’s key artistic leaders discuss the future of the city’s cultural landscape and what lies ahead for the nation’s largest urban arts district.
On Thursday evenings, join us before the talks to enjoy live jazz, a casual dinner, and cocktails in the Atrium Cafe. Ann Williams, Founder/Artistic Director, Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Ann Williams has directed the Dallas Black Dance Theatre for thirty-two years. She is a graduate of Prairie View A&M University and holds a Master of Arts Degree in Dance and Related Arts from Texas Woman’s University. As a dancer, Williams trained with Barbara Hollis and Alvin Ailey, among others. Ms. Williams is the recipient of numerous awards, including the TACA Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts. She serves as a member or advisor to many local, statewide and national arts organizations, including the Dance Council of North Texas, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Veletta Forsythe Lill has been a champion for the arts in her role as Executive Director of the Dallas Arts District and previously as a member of the Dallas City Council, where she served for eight years. As Chairwoman of the council’s Arts, Education and Libraries Committee, Ms. Lill played an instrumental role in the creation of new cultural facilities and programming initiatives, including the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the Latino Cultural Center, and ArtsPartners. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art’s Legends Award and the American Planning Association’s Distinguished Leadership Award for an Elected Official. Charles Santos, Executive Director, TITAS Charles Santos has served as Executive Director of TITAS since 2001. He previously was the Managing Director/Producer for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York, producing the acclaimed Evening Stars series at the World Trade Center, and has worked with a wide range of international artists. He began his career as a dancer with the Sharir Dance Company and founded the nationally recognized Austin Festival of Dance. He currently serves on several local boards as well as the Board of Trustees for Dance/USA. Arlington Jones is a pianist, composer and producer who has performed with legendary musicians including Red Holloway, David “Fathead” Newman, and Chaka Khan, among others. Jones received his Bachelor of Music in Music Composition from Texas Tech University and his Master of Music in Music Performance, specializing in Jazz, Theory and Composition, from Southwest Texas State University. He was named Jazz Artist of the Year by the Sammons Center for the Arts, and The Arlington Jones Trio performs frequently at the Dallas Museum of Art’s award-winning Thursday Night Live Jazz in the Atrium series. Kim J. Campbell, Founder and Executive Director, Dallas Wind Symphony
Kim Campbell co-founded the Dallas Wind Symphony in 1985, and he has served as Associate Producer of thirteen albums with the group for the Reference Recordings, Crystal Records and Widget Records labels. A native Texan, Campbell majored in music performance at North Texas State University (the University of North Texas). As a professional trombonist, Campbell was a regular member of symphony, ballet and opera orchestras in Dallas, Fort Worth and Mexico City, and he toured throughout North America and Europe with ensembles as a freelance musician. Frances Bagley and Tom Orr, Artists featured in Performance/Art at the DMA
Dallas-based artists Frances Bagley and Tom Orr were commissioned by the Dallas Opera to create the sets and costumes for the Dallas premiere of Verdi’s Nabucco in 2006. Bagley and Orr created a gallery-scaled installation based on that production for the Museum’s current special exhibition Performance/Art, on view through March 21, 2010. Frances Bagley received her M.F.A. from the University of North Texas and an M.A. and B.F.A from Arizona State University. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is included in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., among many other private, public and corporate collections. A native of Dallas, Tom Orr holds a B.F.A in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Orr has been commissioned for a number of public art projects, including Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s Terminal D and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Plano Station. His work is included in private collections throughout Texas, the U.S. and abroad. Kevin Moriarty, Artistic Director, Dallas Theater Center
Kevin Moriarty joined the Dallas Theater Center as Artistic Director in 2007, and he previously served as Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York. In Ithaca, Moriarty directed world premieres of plays written by Itamar Moses, Robert Aguierre-Sacassa, and others, as well as a number of classic dramatic and musical productions. He also directed the national tour of the Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Kevin Moriarty is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the recipient of a Drama League directing fellowship.
Graeme Jenkins has served as the Dallas Opera’s Music Director since 1994. He has conducted more than forty productions in Dallas and over 160 operatic productions in the U.S. and abroad, including Così fan tutte for the English National Opera and Baz Luhrmann’s La bohème with the Australian Opera, among others. He holds degrees from Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music, where he was named the Adrian Boult Conducting Scholar. Jenkins has served as the chief guest conductor at Germany’s Cologne Opera and music director of the Glyndebourne Touring Company. Promotional support for State of the Arts is provided by KERA.
 The Sixth Annual Michael L. Rosenberg LectureTwo Royal Prerogatives: Fired by PassionThursday, December 3, 2009
7:00 p.m., C3 Theater, Center for Creative Connections
Free; seating is limited. Reserve your seat online.
Online reservations will be accepted until 3:00 p.m. on the day of the event. To reserve seats by phone or for more information, call 214-922-1826 or e-mail publicprograms@DallasMuseumofArt.org. In European aristocratic society, stag hunting was not merely a sport but a royal ritual and ceremony. Images of the hunt were famously portrayed in works of art, including tapestries, paintings, and decorative objects commissioned by royal patrons. Join internationally recognized consultant and lecturer Deborah Gage to explore this motif in 18th-century French art, most notably the exceptional Sèvres tableau of 1793 in the Michael L. Rosenberg Collection.
This lecture is made possible through the generosity of the Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation.
Dallas Architecture Forum
Christy MacLear, Executive Director of the Philip Johnson Glass HouseThursday, December 10, 7:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
$20 for the public, discounts available for DMA members and students
Tickets only available at the door on the evening of the event. Call 214-764-2406 for more information. Considered by many to be Johnson’s most iconic project as well as his private residence, the “Glass House” is now owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Christy MacLear serves as the Executive Director of the House and Visitor Center, along with developing the House to be a prototype and focus for the Trust’s national movement to preserve architecturally significant modernist residences across the country. MacLear will give attendees an insider’s look at the House and these innovative programs.
www.philipjohnsonglasshouse.org
The Richard R. Brettell Lecture SeriesSelected evenings
$15 for the public, discounts available for DMA members, students, and seniors
Tickets to Brettell Lectures are available online until 3:00 p.m. on the day of each event.
To order by phone or for more information, call 214-922-1826 or e-mail publicprograms@DallasMuseumofArt.org.
Join renowned historians of 19th-century French art as they recount the compelling stories of the Dallas Museum of Art’s modern European masterworks—exceptional paintings by celebrated artists including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec that portray the people, places, and activities of modern life.  Monet's "Seine at Lavacourt": What Is a Modernist Artist to Do in France in 1880?
Friday, February 19, 2010
9:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
Included in general admission to the Museum; no reservations required. This lecture is part of Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art. Claude Monet's iconic painting The Seine at Lavacourt was completed in 1880 and shown at The Salon, the regressive, state-sponsored exhibition that had prompted the impressionists to found their own independent exhibitions beginning in 1874. Dr. Paul Hayes Tucker. The Paul Hayes Tucker Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Boston, will consider this stunning painting and whether it was, in fact, Monet's "turncoat" picture--a retreat to more traditional painting strategies. Explore the modernist scene in late 19th-century France, a decade after the country's disastrous defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
 Special Brettell Lecture Event
Thursday, April 1, 2010
7:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
Order tickets Enjoy a special evening with a husband and wife team of distinguished art historians as they examine several stunning works in a collection formed by another formidable couple, Wendy and Emery Reves. The Reves Collection is a one-of-a-kind installation of impressionist and post-impressionist art and decorative art that celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2010. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's "Femmes de Maison": The "Back" Story
Toulouse-Lautrec's images of brothel life are varied--ranging from the dignified to the saucy, the documentary to the caricatural. How might Dallas's fine pastel be defined? Dr. Richard Thomson, Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh, will look widely at Lautrec's images of figures seen from behind to compare his work with contemporary artists such as Edgar Degas and, in a larger context, with parallels in French theater and psychology. Edouard Vuillard: Exploring the Limits of Intimism
This lecture will consider the works by Edouard Vuillard in the Dallas Museum of Art's collections. Dr. Belinda Thomson, independent art historian and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, will examine to what extent the effectiveness of these works depends upon Vuillard's relationship with each subject. Although many of the subjects are close friends or family members of the artist, was Vuillard able to step outside of the scene and view his motif with a distant and appraising eye? This series is supported by The Richard R. Brettell Lecture Series Endowment Fund. Hotel accommodations provided by The Adolphus. Promotional support provided by WRR Classical 101.1 FM.
The Boshell Family Lecture Series on ArchaeologySelected Thursdays, 7:00 p.m.
$15 for the public, discounts available for DMA members, students, and seniors (unless otherwise noted)
Tickets to Boshell Lectures are available online until 3:00 p.m. on the day of each event.
To order by phone or for more information, call 214-922-1826 or e-mail publicprograms@DallasMuseumofArt.org. Join us for an exciting season of lectures with internationally recognized archaeologists, historians, and authors working at the forefront of archaeological research.
Altars of Zeus, Games for the Gods: Olympia and Lykaion in Early Greek Religion
Thursday, February 18, 2010
C3 Theater, Center for Creative Connections
Order tickets In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games brought participants together every four years for athletic competitions as part of a larger religious festival at Olympia, site of the monumental altar of Zeus. Although the beginnings of the ancient Olympic Games are traditionally dated to 776 B.C., recent archaeological evidence unearthed by Dr. David Gilman Romano and his team at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion, some twenty-two miles to the northeast of Olympia, suggests that the cult of Zeus may have originated there much earlier. Dr. Romano, Senior Research Scientist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, will discuss the most recent discoveries at Mt. Lykaion and how these findings may impact our understanding of the origins and development of the cult of Zeus and the ancient Olympic Games. After the lecture, join us in The Stage for readings of myths and poetry celebrating ancient Greek gods and heroes.  Shadow Divers: Mystery and Adventure on the Bottom of the Atlantic
Presented in partnership with Arts & Letters Live
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Horchow Auditorium
$37 for the public, discounts available for DMA members, educators, students, and seniors. Ticket sales for this event will begin in December 2009. Call 214-922-1826 or e-mail publicprograms@DallasMuseumofArt.org to pre-order. Hailed by the New York Times as a "pulse-quickening real-life thriller." Shadow Divers is a story of riveting adventure in the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean. An unexpected discovery in 1991 began a six-year quest to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II. Though official records denied it, and no historian or government could explain it, a German U-boat with the remains of fifty-six Nazi soldiers lay wrecked sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey. Join Robert Kurson, best-selling author of Shadow Divers, as he shares insights into the remarkable discovery and the subsequent pursuit to identify the lost submarine and its nameless crew. This series is supported by the Boshell Family Foundation and the DMA's Boshell Lecture Series Endowment Fund. Hotel accommodations provided by The Adolphus. Promotional support provided by WRR Classical 101.1 FM.
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