Lectures & Conversations
The Dallas Museum of Art presents an array of lecture programs exploring art from around the world and throughout time with distinguished artists, scholars, and artistic leaders.
Unless otherwise noted, lecture tickets are $5 per person and Late Night Lectures are free. Purchase your tickets online or by phone at 214-922-1818. Online ticketing is available until 3:00 p.m. on the day of an event; after 3:00 p.m., tickets can be purchased on-site at the Visitor Services Desk.
Late Night Lectures
An Illustrated Course: The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece
Special Event: Magnetic Museums
Exhibition Lecture: Frozen in History: The Arrival of the Kennedys in Dallas
Arts & Letters Live
Missed a lecture? Visit the Program Recordings page to listen to selected past lectures, gallery talks, and other events presented by the Dallas Museum of Art.
Late Night Lectures
Join us on the third Friday of each month, when the Museum is open until midnight. Each Late Night offers a variety of experiences, including talks by arists, scholars, curators, and special guests. All Late Night lectures are included in general admission to the Museum.
Toxic Shock
Friday, June 21
9:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
From 1980 to 1986, the women of Toxic Shock worked collaboratively to produce a body of work that addressed the complex issues of politics, power, gender, and identity. Join members Frances Bagley, Julie Cohn, Debora Hunter, and Susan Magilow as they reflect on their work and the Dallas art scene.
Listening Hard: Remembering JFK on Record
Friday, July 19
7:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
Join Alan Govenar, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, as he discusses his audio-video installation Listening Hard: Remembering JFK on Record, a work connecting the recordings released in the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, personalizing our relationship to the event and the man.
These programs are part of Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Special Event
An Illustrated Course: The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece
Wednesday, June 26, and Thursday, June 27
7:00–8:30 p.m. each evening
Course tickets: $40 for the public; $30 for DMA Partners and seniors; Free with 6,500 points for DMA Friends*
Purchase your ticket online at DMA.org/tickets or by phone at 214-922-1818.
*DMA Friends can receive a free ticket to this program by redeeming The Body Beautiful Course reward at a kiosk. You must use 6,500 points to redeem this reward.
The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece, the DMA’s stellar exhibition from London’s British Museum, surveys some of the Greek world’s greatest surviving masterworks. In this two-lecture illustrated course, the DMA’s Eugene McDermott Director, Maxwell L. Anderson, will offer an in-depth exploration of the subjects, context, and significance of many of the objects in the exhibition, and how they offer insight into the worldview of Greek peoples from prehistory through the Hellenistic period.
Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. in classical art from Harvard University. Formerly Assistant Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he had curatorial responsibility for multiple exhibitions featuring the art of ancient Greece, including The Search for Alexander (1981), The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art (1982), and Syracuse: The Fairest Greek City (1989).
Wednesday, June 26
Painting and Decorative Arts
Vase paintings and jewelry
Thursday, June 27
Statuary and Sculpture
Sculptures, bronzes, and terracottas
Recommended Reading
The exhibition catalogue for The Body Beautiful is on sale at the Museum Store. Course registrants will receive a 20% discount on the publication.
If you are a DMA Friend, check into both evenings of the course and earn 400 points. Not a DMA Friend? Sign up for FREE at the kiosks when you arrive at the DMA.
Special Event
Magnetic Museums
Thursday, July 11
7:30 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
Free
Dallas Museum of Art Associate Director of External Affairs Anne Bergeron has co-authored an insightful new book on community engagement called Magnetic: The Art and Science of Engagement.
Maxwell L. Anderson will lead a discussion featuring Bergeron and her co-author, Beth Tuttle, alongside Randall Suffolk, Director of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, and Nicole Small, CEO of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.
Join us for a lively conversation that will share the findings of the authors' two-year research study to understand the traits and practices of high-performance museums, as well as their belief that the lessons offered in Magnetic are applicable to all mission-driven organizations and businesses whose success relies on forging powerful and lasting relationships with their customers and communities.
Exhibition Lecture
Arts & Letters Live
Click here to learn more about Arts & Letters Live events. Arts & Letters Live is a literary and performing arts series for all ages at the Dallas Museum of Art that features award-winning authors and actors of regional, national, and international acclaim. The series is recognized for its creative multidisciplinary programming, combining literature with visual arts, music, and film, and for commissioning new work from musicians, dancers, and poets inspired by works of art in the Museum’s collection and exhibitions.