CATCH THESE EXCITING EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW AT THE MUSEUM THIS SEASON

Octavio Medellín: Spirit and Form

On view through May 14, 2023

Octavio Medellín: Spirit and Form is the first-ever museum retrospective to explore this iconic Dallas artist’s nearly seven-decade career. Featuring approximately 80 works, the exhibition charts the evolution of Medellín’s artistic practice as he moved across various mediums, producing sculptures in wood, stone, clay, metal, and glass. The show also delves into his creation of public art across Texas and his legacy as a beloved art teacher in Dallas.

Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks

On view through June 25, 2023

As medieval Europe sat on the precipice of change, the small county of Flanders in the Southern Netherlands developed into a cultural and economic powerhouse. Featuring a dazzling array of masterworks from the 1400s through the 1600s, Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools highlights the innovative ways that Flemish artists depicted their rapidly changing world through style and storytelling.

Bamana Mud Cloth: From Mali to the World

On view through August 6, 2022

Mud cloth, or bogolanfini, originated among the Bamana peoples of Mali, who used the dye-decorated cloth to make tunics for male hunters and wrappers for females to mark the most important milestones in their lives. Its distinctive patterns will be familiar to most visitors. Bamana women painted the culturally significant designs onto handwoven cloth with fermented mud dye. This exhibition reveals how the cloths are made and how their unmistakable patterns have been used in Western products, from designer clothing to home furnishings.

Focus On: Rashid Johnson

On view through September 10, 2023

The New Black Yoga Installation by multidisciplinary artist Rashid Johnson features a film with five Black men performing an enigmatic dance of ballet, yoga, tai chi, and martial arts across a sun-soaked beach. Their choreographed movements reflect Johnson’s ongoing meditations on Black masculinity and mysticism, as well as his investigations of the body in space. Rugs branded with crosshairs are situated throughout the gallery, projecting the film’s combined sense of peace and foreboding into physical space.

Guadalupe Rosales: Drifting on a Memory

On view through June 18, 2023

Guadalupe Rosales works to document Latinx experiences in the United States, and especially in her native Los Angeles, through her ever-growing repository of communally sourced archival materials, including photographs, memorabilia, and artifacts. She develops installations combining photography, ephemera, and sound that intersect with her archival practice. For Drifting on a Memory, Rosales collaborated with Dallas-based lowrider artist Lokey Calderon to create an immersive work that nods to lowrider culture and uses sound to replicate the aural experience of cruising in East LA.

Movement: The Legacy of Kineticism

On view through July 16, 2023

Movement showcases the work of artists from three historical eras who explored the power of kineticism in art, using optical effects or mechanical or manipulable parts to engage the viewer physically or perceptually. This exhibition, drawn from the DMA’s collection, demonstrates how artists working today have been influenced by the long legacy of dynamic abstraction to create work that engulfs visitors in their surroundings and empowers them to participate in its co-creation.