Press Releases

Thursday, 10.24.24

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Public: Frances Bagley

The veteran Dallas artist fills the Nasher’s street-facing Public Gallery with a powerful architectural installation that speaks to a destabilizing era.

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Tuesday, 10.1.24

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Offsite Nasher Public: Eddie Martinez, Presented in Partnership with Katy Trail Art

Two lively, painted bronze sculptures are added to the Katy Trail as a part of an ongoing partnership that brings public sculpture to the city’s beloved trail.

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Thursday, 8.1.24

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2024 Nasher Artist Grant Winners

Five North Texas Artists to Receive Grants to Support Studio Practices and Creative Projects

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Thursday, 5.30.24

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces ‘Nasher Prize Dialogues: Sculpture and Organic Material,’ presented in partnership with the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, Belgium

Conversation between 2025 Nasher Prize laureate Otobong Nkanga and artist Precious Okoyomon to discuss their use of organic matter in sculptures and installations; a part of Nasher Prize’s ongoing series of international public programs. 

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Friday, 5.24.24

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Interim Director

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Sunday, 5.12.24

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Final Project of its First Phase of Nasher Public: Urban Historical Reclamation and Recognition

After over a year of research and community collaboration, an artist cohort led by Vicki Meek will debut five monuments in Dallas’s Tenth Street Historic District Freedman’s Town, using augmented reality.

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Friday, 3.22.24

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Fall 2024 Exhibitions: Hugh Hayden and Samara Golden

Hugh Hayden installs new works inspired by his childhood in Dallas; Samara Golden transforms the museum’s Lower Level Gallery through an installation of mirrors and objects.  

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Friday, 2.16.24

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Public: Trey Burns

In Prairie Piece, Dallas-based multi-media artist posits relationships between North Texan history, politics, and ecology through a network of sculpture, writing, and video.

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Tuesday, 1.23.24

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 'Moonlight,' an exhibition by the Haas Brothers

Twin brothers Nikolai and Simon Haas install a series of dream-like works inside and outside the museum, highlighting the fusion of art, design, and technology in their practice.

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Friday, 12.1.23

Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium: Open Call for Papers

Symposium of graduate scholars to address the contributions of 2025 Nasher Prize Laureate, Otobong Nkanga, held the spring of 2024 with a published compendium in 2025

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Wednesday, 11.29.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Public: Invocation of the Cosmic Body, by art collective Empire of Dirt

The three-person art collective will present a new installation of paper tapestries, ceramics, and performance.

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Wednesday, 11.8.23

The Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sarah Sze, Opening Spring 2024

The pivotal American artist will debut a series of new, site-specific installations 

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Thursday, 11.2.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Director Jeremy Strick to Retire from Museum After 15 Years at the Helm

The Nasher Sculpture Center, a world-renowned museum dedicated to the field of sculpture, announces Director Jeremy Strick will retire from his leadership position in June 2024.

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Friday, 10.27.23

The Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center Receive a Joint Gift of Over 50 Works by Roy Lichtenstein

The donation to the two neighboring museums establishes Dallas as center for study on the 20th century artist.  

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Wednesday, 10.11.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Public: Linnea Glatt

Dallas-based artist invokes the land her childhood memories in a new installation of rust, steel, and fabric

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Thursday, 10.5.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Otobong Nkanga as Winner of the 2025 Nasher Prize

Nigerian/Belgian artist receives $100,000 in recognition of outstanding contributions to sculpture under the museum’s new expanded prize program.

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Tuesday, 9.26.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces ‘Nasher Prize Dialogues: Sculpture and Place in the Caribbean,’ presented in partnership with the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico

Artists living and working in the Caribbean discuss the role place and local history plays in contemporary sculpture; a part of Nasher Prize’s ongoing series of international public programs.

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Monday, 8.7.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2023 Nasher Artist Grant Winners

Five North Texas Artists to Receive Grants to Support Studio Practices and Creative Projects

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Thursday, 7.20.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Public: Robert Barsamian

Using hanging fabric panels, sculpture, and sound, the artist tells a story of human tragedy and perseverance.

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Friday, 6.2.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the Acquisition of 24 Artworks by Jean (Hans) Arp

The museum receives the most significant gift since its founding

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Thursday, 4.20.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Groundswell: Women of Land Art

Exhibition redefines our understanding of Land art through the lesser-known work of twelve women sculptors

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Monday, 3.13.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Offsite Nasher Public Project: Nic Nicosia, Presented in Partnership with Katy Trail Art

Two curious and playful figures by the Dallas artist will occupy the Katy Trail through November.

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Tuesday, 2.28.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Thaddeus Mosley: Forest

96-year-old artist shows five recent works chiseled from felled trees

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Tuesday, 1.17.23

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Spring 2023’s Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

Two unique performances will be accompanied by a season-long installation of sight and sound in the Nasher’s garden terrace

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Monday, 12.5.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Major Expansion of Nasher Public with Vicki Meek’s Urban Historical Reclamation and Recognition

Celebrated Dallas artist awarded fellowship to document the history of Tenth Street Historic District Freedman’s Town in Oak Cliff

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Thursday, 11.17.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 'Mark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper'

The first major museum investigation of the monumental sculptor’s studio practice and largest museum survey in the US since 1975

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Wednesday, 11.9.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Offsite Nasher Public Project: Jeff Gibbons and Gregory Ruppe, Presented in Partnership with Katy Trail Art

Gibbons and Ruppe place bronze, human-faced squirrels along the Katy Trail.Gibbons and Ruppe place bronze, human-faced squirrels along the Katy Trail.

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Thursday, 11.3.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces ‘Afro Mingei’, an experiential project by Theaster Gates

The 2018 Nasher Prize Laureate’s new project merges Japanese and African American culture with food, drink, ceramics, and music. 

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Wednesday, 10.19.22

2023 Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium: Open Call for Papers

The Nasher Sculpture Center requests proposals for papers addressing the 2023 Nasher Prize Laureate, Senga Nengudi.

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Wednesday, 9.21.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Senga Nengudi as Winner of the 2023 Nasher Prize

American Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Thursday, 9.1.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2022-2023 Season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

After three years, celebrated chamber music series returns to the Nasher under Artistic Director Seth Knopp; series now presented in partnership with the Clark Institute of Art in Williamstown, MA

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Friday, 7.29.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2022 Nasher Artist Grant Winners

Five North Texas Artists to Receive Grants to Support Studio and Curatorial Practices

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Tuesday, 7.19.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Public: Celia Eberle

Public Gallery installation, Waiting for Robot, explores cultural threats of propaganda and manipulation

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Monday, 7.11.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Fall 2022 Exhibitions

Nairy Baghramian returns to Dallas with an exhibition of new works, her first created since she became the 2022 Nasher Prize Laureate; Matthew Ronay presents his largest sculpture to date

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Wednesday, 6.1.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Recent New Gifts and Acquisitions to the Collection

Now on view: Gifts from the Barrett Family Collection and other private donors, plus new acquisitions

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Friday, 5.6.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Public: Liss LaFleur

Public Gallery installation, The Queer Birth Project, will explore issues surrounding childbirth and LGBTQ+ people

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Tuesday, 4.19.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces ‘Nasher Prize Dialogues: Public Figures,’ presented in partnership with the New Museum

Conversation with leading artists considers critical approaches to commemoration and monumentality in public space; part of the Nasher Prize’s ongoing series of international public programs

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Monday, 4.11.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces ‘The (Re)Making of Robert Irwin’s Portal Park Slice at Carpenter Park,’ a Panel Discussion in Partnership with Parks for Downtown Dallas

Conversation with Carpenter Park’s landscape architect, Mary Margaret Jones, and Robert Irwin scholar Lawrence Weschler will be moderated by Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News architecture critic

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Tuesday, 3.15.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces ‘Nasher Prize Dialogues: The Uncanny Politics of Objects’

Public panel discussion with leading designers and curators is part of the Nasher Prize’s ongoing series of international public programs

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Thursday, 2.24.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Magali Reus: A Sentence in Soil

Exhibition by Dutch artist will consider contemporary life in abstract yet familiar forms

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Monday, 12.13.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces ‘SCULPTING SOUND: Twelve Musicians Encounter Bertoia’

Unprecedented, six-night concert series brings world-renowned musicians to play Harry Bertoia’s sounding sculptures

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Wednesday, 12.8.21

PHI Studio, Emerson Collective, and Legendary Entertainment Announce Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Academy Award®-Winning Virtual Reality Installation CARNE y ARENA Comes to Dallas, in Association with the Nasher Sculpture Center and the George W. Bush Presidential Center

Immersive VR installation travels to Fair Park, recounts the harrowing plight of Central American and Mexican refugees

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Wednesday, 12.1.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Public: Christian Cruz

Nasher Public Gallery installation will champion unseen, unacknowledged domestic labor and the struggles of working mothers

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Monday, 11.15.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sightings: Olivia Block

Acclaimed experimental composer, Olivia Block, utilizes Harry Bertoia’s sounding sculptures to create new sound installation for the Nasher

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Thursday, 11.4.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Offsite Nasher Public Project: Artist Alicia Eggert, presented in partnership with Trammel Crow Center

Eggert’s steel and neon sculpture to be sited at growing Arts District development, across from the Trammel Crow Center

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Friday, 10.22.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Offsite Nasher Public Project: Artist Sara Cardona, presented in partnership with Katy Trail Art

Cardona’s five lantern sculptures to be inaugural project for Katy Trail Art, a new public art initiative on the historic trail

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Friday, 10.15.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Recent Gifted Acquisitions

Five major works from living artists Jeff Gibbons, Nicolas Party, Kathleen Ryan, Arlene Shechet, and Bosco Sodi enter the Nasher collection

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Tuesday, 10.12.21

2022 Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium: Open Call for Papers

Symposium to address the work of 2022 Nasher Prize Laureate, Nairy Baghramian

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Monday, 10.11.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Offsite Nasher Public Project: Artist Oshay Green, presented in partnership with The Power Station

Artist’s largest sculpture to date to be sited at celebrated, non-profit Dallas art space

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Monday, 10.4.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life

First US museum retrospective of the pioneering artist to examine the full scope of his broad, interdisciplinary practice

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Friday, 9.24.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Store Holiday Pop-Up Shop

Pop-up shop presented and curated in partnership with leading design distributor AMEICO

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Tuesday, 9.14.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nairy Baghramian as Winner of the 2022 Nasher Prize

Iranian-born German Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Thursday, 8.19.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures

First major museum presentation to focus on Bove’s assembled steel sculptures

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Monday, 8.16.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Nasher Public Exhibition Artist, Linda Ridgway

Five works by the esteemed Dallas artist meditate on time, memory, and touch

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Tuesday, 8.3.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2021 Nasher Artist Grant Winners

Five North Texas Artists to Receive Grants to Support Studio and Curatorial Practices

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Monday, 7.19.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Nasher Public Exhibition Artist, Brian Molanphy

Innovative installation of sculptural ceramic vessels presents abstract, poetic, and conceptual considerations of the medium

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Tuesday, 7.13.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Betye Saar: Call and Response

Exhibition of sketchbooks and sculpture gives insight into the working process of the renowned Los Angeles artist

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Tuesday, 7.6.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Third Offsite Nasher Public Project: Artist Paul Winker at 3708 Lexington Avenue

Artist creates his first sculptural work, sited in street-facing landscape at the home of art patrons Janelle and Alden Pinnell

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Tuesday, 6.22.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Nasher Public Exhibition Artist, Cameron Schoepp

In poetic gesture, Fort Worth-based artist’s kinetic sculpture, Twist, highlights effects of the pandemic, from fear to a greater appreciation of simple beauty

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Wednesday, 6.16.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Offsite Nasher Public Project by Artist Lauren Cross, in partnership with For Oak Cliff

Project commemorating Juneteenth highlights the ongoing work of liberating Black Americans from centuries of systemic oppression

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Wednesday, 5.26.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Nasher Public Exhibition Artist, Jer’Lisa Devezin

Dallas-based artist’s multimedia sculpture is a monument to Black hair, bodies, and culture

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Thursday, 5.20.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the First Offsite Nasher Public Project: Artstillery’s "Family Dollar"

Extensive oral history and architectural preservation project works to chronicle a threatened West Dallas neighborhood

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Wednesday, 4.28.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Nasher Public Exhibition Artist, Dan Lam

Dallas-based artist makes her largest sculpture to date, A Subtle Alchemy, a stand-alone architectural structure

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Wednesday, 4.7.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Laureate Lecture by Michael Rakowitz

2020/21 Nasher Prize winner takes the virtual stage for a lecture on his artistic practice

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Tuesday, 3.30.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Nasher Public Exhibition Artist, Melanie Clemmons

Dallas artist and SMU professor presents the Nasher’s first New Media installation

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Monday, 2.22.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Nasher Public Exhibition Artist, Shelby David Meier

Dallas-based artist presents installation dedicated to the everyday object

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Tuesday, 1.5.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Nasher Public Exhibition Artist, Vicki Meek

Dallas-based artist with research-based practice presents a shrine dedicated to the Black community

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Wednesday, 12.16.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2021 Spring/Summer Exhibition, Nasher Mixtape

Center-wide presentation of permanent collection in multiple micro-exhibitions explores a compilation of themes; many new acquisitions on view for first time

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Monday, 12.7.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Nasher Public Exhibition Artist, Nyugen E. Smith

Found object sculptural constructions and musical composition consider the universal human experiences of memory, trauma, and spirituality through the multifarious impacts of colonialism on the African diaspora.

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Wednesday, 12.2.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues— A Conversation with Nasher Prize Laureate Michael Rakowitz and Jin-Ya Huang, Founder of Break Bread, Break Borders

Live, virtual discussion considers the status of food, hospitality, and community-based art during a time of social distancing

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Wednesday, 11.18.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Major Gift from Artist Melvin Edwards

Renowned sculptor makes gift of six works to the Nasher collection

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Monday, 11.9.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Nasher Public Exhibition Artist, Giovanni Valderas

Dallas-based artist will consider the role of car culture and the American dream for installation in the Nasher Store gallery

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Friday, 10.16.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Acquisition of Sculptural Work by Artist Nic Nicosia

Dallas-based artist’s large-scale sculpture now on view in the Nasher Garden

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Tuesday, 10.13.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Public

New public art initiative will showcase work of North Texas artists in new gallery space at the Nasher and at sites around the city, in partnership with area businesses

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Thursday, 10.1.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues— Disembodied Intimacy: Digitally Communicating Art, Caregiving, and Sex

Live, virtual panel discussion presented in partnership with Hauser & Wirth to consider role of digital technology during pandemic

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Monday, 9.28.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Programming for Fall and New Award Celebration Date Honoring 2020 Laureate Michael Rakowitz

New and rescheduled events take on virtual format, expand audience reach; new spring 2021 date for award celebration

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Monday, 8.31.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Acquisitions from Nasher Windows Series

Works by North Texas Artists Xxavier Edward Carter and Kristen Cochran from recent series of street-facing exhibitions join the Nasher collection 

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Thursday, 5.14.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Windows

New weekly series of street-facing exhibitions will make art accessible to public and offer opportunities to North Texas artists

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Monday, 2.10.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sightings: Magali Reus

Exhibition by Dutch artist will consider contemporary life in abstract yet familiar forms.

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Monday, 2.10.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Recent Acquisitions and Gifts to the Collection

Three new additions come through Kaleta A. Doolin Acquisitions Fund for Women Artists, including groundbreaking early work by Judy Chicago; bequest of William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee increases holdings of 20th-Century masters

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Monday, 10.28.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2020 Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium Open Call for Papers

Symposium to address the work of 2020 Laureate, Michael Rakowitz; University of North Texas’s Dr. Nada Shabout to moderate

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Tuesday, 10.22.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Barry X Ball: Remaking Sculpture

First major US museum survey exhibition of the American artist explores the intersection of technology and traditional handiwork in sculptures

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Tuesday, 10.1.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Art and Health Public Discussion Series

Series of talks, presented in partnership with the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at The University of Texas at Dallas and area medical centers, will consider the ways artists work with and through mental and physical challenges

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Monday, 9.23.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sightings: Anne Le Troter

Artist’s first U.S. commission will consider ethics of eugenics in a linguistic score and site-specific installation 

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Wednesday, 9.4.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Michael Rakowitz as Winner of the 2020 Nasher Prize

Chicago Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Tuesday, 6.11.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2019/2020 Season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

Tenth anniversary season of highly-acclaimed concert series brings dynamic line-up of performances to Dallas with presentations from an international array of talent

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Tuesday, 6.4.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures

Scandinavian duo’s first major US museum presentation.

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Tuesday, 5.28.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2019 Artist Microgrant Winners

Five North Texas Artists and Collectives to Receive Grants to Support Studio and Curatorial Practices 

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Monday, 5.20.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Acquisition of Nicole Eisenman’s Sketch for a Fountain

Five-part work, currently on view, is acquired through the tandem support of the Kaleta A. Doolin Acquisition Fund for Women Artists and the Green Family Collection

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Friday, 5.10.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sheila Hicks: Seize, Weave Space

Site-specific fiber installation by American-born, Paris-based artist to transform Nasher Garden, with recent work in the Lower Level Gallery

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Monday, 5.6.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Pairings: Sculpture in the Nasher & Rachofsky Collections at the Nasher and The Sensation of Space at The Warehouse

Tandem exhibitions offer a rare presentation of sculpture from two of Dallas’s most renowned collections

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Monday, 12.10.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Free First Saturdays

Relaunch of monthly free day offers continued access to arts programming and free admission; new community partners Neiman Marcus and Bank of America to support education programming

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Wednesday, 10.17.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sterling Ruby: Sculpture

First museum exhibition to survey American artist’s sculptural work

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Tuesday, 9.25.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Isa Genzken as Winner of the 2019 Nasher Prize

German Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Tuesday, 9.18.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Recent Gifts to the Collection

Works by Louise Bourgeois, Guerilla Girls, Ann Veronica Janssens, Joshua Neustein, and Bosco Sodi join the Nasher Collection

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Wednesday, 8.15.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Fall 2018 Season of 360: Artists, Curators, Critics Speaker Series

Season line-up will feature lectures by leading international artists, as well as an in-depth symposium dedicated to the work of Jean (Hans) Arp

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Thursday, 8.9.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sightings: Anne Le Troter

Artist’s first U.S. commission will consider ethics of eugenics in a linguistic score and site-specific installation.

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Wednesday, 6.6.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2018 Artist Microgrant Winners

Five North Texas Artists to Receive Grants to Support Studio Practices

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Tuesday, 5.29.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces The Nature of Arp

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Wednesday, 4.18.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues: Artists and Authorship: Reference, Relationships and Appropriation in Contemporary Sculptural Practice, presented in partnership with The Common Guild and Glasgow International 2018

Public panel discussion to be held at the Trades Hall of Glasgow, May 2, as part of the Nasher Prize’s ongoing series of international public programs

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Thursday, 3.22.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sightings: Luke Fowler

First-ever sound sculpture to be presented at the Nasher, commissioned in partnership with Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland

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Tuesday, 3.13.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces A Tradition of Revolution

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Friday, 3.9.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2018 ‘til Midnight at the Nasher Series line-up

Popular free event extended year-round, featuring national touring acts including Psychic Ills, Vagabon, Martin Rev, Julianna Barwick, and more ; first concert to take place Friday, March 16

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Thursday, 2.22.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces The Circle Project

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Friday, 2.2.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues: Sculpture + History, in partnership with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas

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Friday, 1.12.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Updated 2018 Exhibition Schedule

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Thursday, 10.19.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone

Groundbreaking exhibition presents ancient tools and gathered objects as evidence of the earliest forms of artistic intention 

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Tuesday, 9.19.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Theaster Gates as Winner of the 2018 Nasher Prize

American Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Thursday, 8.31.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents The DRAMASTICS: A Punk Rock Victory Twister in Texas by Artist Nathan Carter

Carter’s first film, soundstage for fictional punk band on view; live performance to be presented in collaboration with Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family SOLUNA International Music & Arts Festival

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Wednesday, 8.16.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Fall 2017 Season of 360: Artists, Curators, Critics Speaker Series

Season line-up features lectures by Nasher exhibition artists as well as leading voices in the field of sculpture

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Thursday, 8.3.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Paper into Sculpture

Exhibition considers paper as a dynamic sculptural medium

Two ancillary exhibitions—a collection of paper works related to Esopus magazine and the outsized book and Duchampian homage, Fountainhead—will also to be on view

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Thursday, 7.27.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2017-2018 Season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

Eighth season of highly-acclaimed concert series brings dynamic line-up of performances to Dallas

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Friday, 6.23.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony

Highly-acclaimed exhibition reimagines the traditional Japanese tea ceremony through the artist’s signature use of bricolage

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Wednesday, 6.14.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2018 Exhibitions

Season will feature four exhibitions with leading contemporary artists, as well as a groundbreaking show of ancient artifacts

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Thursday, 5.11.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2017 ‘til Midnight at the Nasher Series Line-Up

FREE Event from 6 pm to Midnight
 

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Tuesday, 4.11.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces The Great Create Family Fundraising Event Benefiting Nasher Education Programs

Featured artists announced for the fifth annual family fundraising event at Nasher; Scheduled for April 23, 2017.

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Monday, 3.20.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Roni Horn

First American museum exhibition of artist’s large-scale glass sculptures

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Friday, 2.10.17

Nasher Sculpture Center presents a Special Series of Soundings Concerts: Jörg Widmann at the Nasher

Renowned German composer and clarinetist, Jörg Widmann, to serve as Nasher’s first-ever Composer-in-Residence, culminating in a series of concerts on April 7, 8, and 9

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Friday, 2.3.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues: The Public Place of Sculpture, in partnership with Museo Jumex, Mexico City

Public panel discussion to be held at Museo Jumex on March 16 as part of the Nasher Prize’s ongoing series of international public programs 

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Monday, 1.9.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Spring 2016 Season of 360: Artists, Curators, Critics Speaker Series

Season line-up will feature lecture by leading Richard Serra expert, a panel with renowned feminist art scholars and curators, as well as a discussion focused on new market trends for promoting art and artists

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Thursday, 12.15.16

Nasher Sculpture Center to Receive $40,000 Grant from National Endowment for the Arts

Grant will help realize first major US museum exhibition of the work of Jean Arp in over three decades

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Monday, 12.12.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Recent Acquisitions to the Collection

Works by Julian Hoeber and Alex Israel join the museum’s holdings

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Wednesday, 11.9.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces New Director of Retail in the Nasher Store

Highly-regarded expert in luxury retail, Donald Fowler, to steer the Nasher Store in innovative new direction

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Thursday, 10.20.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces International Call for Papers for Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium

Symposium will explore themes found in work of 2017 Nasher Prize Laureate, Pierre Huyghe, featuring keynote speaker Nicolas Bourriaud, Director of La Pancée art center, Montpellier, France

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Monday, 10.17.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Richard Serra: Prints

Collection of prints spans the sculptor’s 45 years of experimental printmaking in collaboration with Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles

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Monday, 9.26.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Pierre Huyghe as Winner of the 2017 Nasher Prize

French Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Friday, 8.12.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Fall 2016 Season of 360: Artists, Curators, Critics Speaker Series

Season line-up features a panel discussion, lectures by Nasher exhibition artists, and a powerful new voice in video art

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Tuesday, 8.9.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sightings: Michael Dean

Exhibition will be the first US museum show for the Turner Prize shortlisted artist

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Thursday, 8.4.16

Limited Edition of Sculptures by Liz Larner Commissioned to Benefit the Nasher Sculpture Center

Proceeds of small-scale work by acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist will benefit the Nasher’s exhibition and education programs

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Friday, 7.29.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2016-2017 Season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

Seventh season of highly-acclaimed concert series brings dynamic line-up of performances, as well as the first-ever Soundings Composer-in-Residence

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Tuesday, 7.26.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Acquires Significant Group of Works by Artist Ana Mendieta

Collection of sculpture, photography, and video by influential Cuban-American artist made possible by the Kaleta A. Doolin Acquisitions Fund for Women Artists

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Monday, 7.11.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Free Admission Policy for First Responders

Museum to extend free admission to all police and fire department members beginning July 12, 2016

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Wednesday, 6.8.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Kathryn Andrews: Run for President

Highly-acclaimed exhibition, organized by Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, casts a satirical eye on American politics, entertainment industry

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Tuesday, 5.3.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2016 Artist Microgrant Winners

Five North Texas Artists to Receive Grants to Support Studio Practices

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Thursday, 4.28.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2016 ‘til Midnight at the Nasher Series line-up

FREE Event from 6 pm to Midnight

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Tuesday, 3.1.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Joel Shapiro

Colorful, immersive installation by one of the most influential artists of the era pushes decades-long investigation of geometric form into new terrain

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Monday, 1.25.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Installation of Plegaria Muda, a Major Work by Inaugural Nasher Prize Laureate Doris Salcedo

Large-scale piece highlights Salcedo’s powerful commitment to memorializing victims of violence

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Tuesday, 1.19.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Spring 2016 Line-up for 360: Artists, Critics, Curators Speaker Series

Monthly speaker series explores topics of modern and contemporary art and design

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Friday, 1.8.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sightings: Mai-Thu Perret

Swiss artist engages themes of utopia, feminism and narrative in a dynamic body of work, including a world premiere performance as part of the SOLUNA International Music & Arts Festival 

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Friday, 12.11.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Fall 2015 Artist Microgrant Winners

Five North Texas Artists to Receive Grants to Support Studio Practices

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Thursday, 12.10.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces The Great Create Family Fundraising Event Benefiting Nasher Education Programs

Featured artists announced for the fourth annual family fundraising event at Nasher; Scheduled for April 24, 2016. 

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Tuesday, 12.1.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Ann Veronica Janssens

First US museum solo exhibition of Belgian-based artist’s immersive light installations and sculptures

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Tuesday, 11.24.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents Soundings Concert: A Thousand Cranes: Second Symphony for Strings and Harp

World premiere of Christopher Theofanidis symphony to be held at Booker T. Washington High School’s Montgomery Arts Theater on December 12 at 7:30 pm

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Friday, 11.13.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Spring 2016 Exhibitions

Three immersive shows present various experiences of light, narrative, and geometric form

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Wednesday, 9.30.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Doris Salcedo as Inaugural Winner of the Nasher Prize

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Doris Salcedo as Inaugural Winner of the Nasher Prize 

Colombian Sculptor Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Her Outstanding Contributions to the Field

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Wednesday, 9.30.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Anuncia Doris Salcedo Como Ganadora Inaugural del Premio Nasher

Escultora Colombiana Recibe $100,000 en Reconocimiento Por Su Impacto Extraordinario en la Comprensión del Campo de Escultura

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Friday, 9.25.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces a Project by Stephen Lapthisophon: Toccare (Non) Toccare

Presentation of work by Dallas artist to coincide with Being the River, Repeating the Forest will explore themes in work of Giuseppe Penone

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Wednesday, 9.16.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues, an International Series of Public Programs on Sculpture

First public program to be held in London, in association with The Henry Moore Institute and the Institute of Contemporary Arts

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Tuesday, 8.25.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Fall 2015 Line-up for 360: Artists, Critics, Curators Speaker Series

Monthly speaker series explores topics of modern and contemporary art and design

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Monday, 8.24.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Major Contributions to Inaugural Nasher Prize

Aston Martin and JPMorgan Chase & Co. Provide Major Financial Support to Co-sponsor Inaugural Nasher Prize

Nasher Sculpture Center Architect Renzo Piano Commissioned by Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger to Design Award Object

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Wednesday, 8.19.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sightings: Alex Israel

Exhibition of work by Los Angeles artist to explore cultural influence of Hollywood movie industry

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Monday, 8.10.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Gift from The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation Establishing New Acquisitions Fund for Art Created by Women

Fund will provide initial $750,000 to the Nasher Sculpture Center for purchasing work by women artists; important work by Phyllida Barlow to be first acquisition

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Wednesday, 6.24.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Giuseppe Penone: Being the River, Repeating the Forest

First U.S. museum exhibition in over 30 years highlights the career of one of the founders of the Arte Povera movement 

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Tuesday, 5.26.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Fall 2015 Exhibitions

Three back-to-back exhibitions present a wide range of approaches to sculpture 

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Thursday, 5.21.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2015-2016 Season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

The Nasher Sculpture Center announces its 2015-2016 season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher, the critically-acclaimed new music series featuring groundbreaking performances created under the direction of Seth Knopp, a founding member of the Peabody Trio and artistic director of Yellow Barn. 

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Wednesday, 5.6.15

Nasher Sculpture Center’s The Great Create Family Fundraising Event, Benefiting Nasher Education Programs, Raises Record Amount

Third-annual fundraising event brings artists and families together to help support Nasher’s imaginative and vital outreach programs

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Tuesday, 5.5.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Final Soundings Concert of the Season: Music on the Brink of War

Performance includes seminal 1912 work, Pierrot Lunaire, by Arnold Schoenberg and Kurt Weill cabaret, with text by playwright Bertolt Brecht, in partnership with SOLUNA International Music and Arts Festival

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Friday, 5.1.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Inaugural Artist Microgrant Winners

Five North Texas Artists Chosen to Receive Grants to Support Studio Practices

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Thursday, 4.30.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2015 ‘til Midnight at the Nasher Series line-up; FREE Event from 6 pm to Midnight

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to announce the concert/film line-up for the 2015 season of ‘til Midnight at the Nasher. The popular evening program will continue to offer complimentary admission to all guests for the run of the season from May through October 2015.

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Thursday, 4.9.15

Dallas Arts District Museums to Re-stage Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s Participatory Political Artwork Tatlin’s Whisper #6

In support of artist’s freedom of expression, the Crow Collection, Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center join in solidarity with museums across the country in protesting Bruguera’s potential incarceration by Cuban government. 

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Wednesday, 4.8.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents Soundings Performance: In Return for My Song: Tonalities at Once Ancient and New

April 24 concert features Music from Yellow Barn with works for string quartet and percussion by Bach, Beethoven, Berio, Rzewski, Tan Dun, and Wood featuring percussionist Ian Rosenbaum and the Parker String Quartet

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Thursday, 4.2.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Establishes International Nasher Prize for Sculpture

$100,000 Annual Award to Recognize Outstanding Contributions to the Field

Phyllida Barlow, Lynne Cooke, Okwui Enwezor, Yuko Hasegawa, Steven Nash, Alexander Potts, and Nicholas Serota to Serve as Jury for Inaugural Prize
 

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Monday, 3.2.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Phyllida Barlow: tryst

Dynamic, large-scale installations by influential British artist will create multiple environments within Nasher galleries.

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Wednesday, 2.11.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces New Artist Microgrant Program for North Texas Artists

New granting program to provide small-sum grants to support the studio practices of local artists. 

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Tuesday, 2.3.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Next Soundings Performance: Music from Yellow Barn: Madness and Betrayal

Second concert of the season explores dark themes in Brett Dean’s String Quartet No.2 (And once I played Ophelia”) and Arnold Schoenberg’s 2^nd String Quartet, with works by Robert Schumann
 

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Friday, 1.23.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces The Great Create Family Fundraising Event Benefiting Nasher Education Programs

The Nasher Sculpture Center, along with Co-Chairs Courtney and Jeff Sinelli and Meredith Land Moore and Xan Moore, announce the Nasher’s third annual family fundraising event, The Great Create, which will take place on Sunday, April 26, 2015 from 1-4 pm.

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Monday, 12.15.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Launch of French Sculpture Census

French Sculpture Census, World’s First Comprehensive Digital Archive of French Sculpture in America, Launches in Cooperation with Six American and French Institutions at http://frenchsculpture.org/

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Thursday, 12.4.14

Limited Edition of Sculptures by Tony Cragg Produced Exclusively for Nasher Sculpture Center

Small-scale works by famed British artist, available in Nasher Store, help support Nasher exhibitions and education programs.

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Monday, 10.20.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Melvin Edwards: Five Decades

The Nasher Sculpture Center presents the first retrospective in more than 20 years of the renowned American sculptor, Melvin Edwards, including never-before exhibited works

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Tuesday, 10.14.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the Appointment of Assistant Curator Leigh Arnold

The Nasher Sculpture Center announced today that Leigh Arnold has been named Assistant Curator, a two year appointment.

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Monday, 9.22.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Sightings: Anna-Bella Papp

Nasher to Present First U.S. Museum Exhibition of Artist’s Work
On View October 25, 2014 through January 18, 2015

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Wednesday, 9.17.14

Nasher Sculpture Center’s Artist-in-Residence Rick Lowe Named 2014 MacArthur Fellow

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to recognize that our artist-in-residence, Rick Lowe, has been named a 2014 class of MacArthur fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. 

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Tuesday, 8.12.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Fifth Anniversary Season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

The Nasher Sculpture Center announces its fifth anniversary season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher, the critically-acclaimed new music series featuring groundbreaking performances created under the direction of Seth Knopp, a founding member of the Peabody Trio and artistic director of Yellow Barn. 

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Monday, 8.4.14

2014-2015 Exhibition Calendar

Upcoming exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center. 

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Wednesday, 7.30.14

Beat the Heat with Cool Thursdays at the Nasher

Visitors are invited to beat the heat in the final month of summer with Cool Thursdays at the Nasher featuring half price admission and a free cookie with entrée in the Nasher Café.

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Tuesday, 7.1.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Extends Sightings: Bettina Pousttchi

Sightings: Bettina Pousttchi Extended Through Summer

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Monday, 6.9.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio

First US museum presentation of Heatherwick Studio to appear in Los Angeles and New York after inauguration in Dallas. 

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Tuesday, 5.13.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Mark Grotjahn Sculpture

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to present Mark Grotjahn Sculpture from May 31 to August 17, 2014.

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Monday, 3.31.14

Mother’s Day at the Nasher Sculpture Center Featuring Art, Music, Brunch and B. Stellar Jewelry Trunk Show

Mother’s Day at the Nasher Sculpture Center Featuring Art, Music, Brunch and B. Stellar Jewelry Trunk Show
Sponsored by Mary Kay  

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Thursday, 3.27.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2014 ‘til Midnight at the Nasher Series line-up

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to announce the concert/movie line-up for the 2014 season of ‘til Midnight at the Nasher. The popular evening program will continue to offer complimentary admission to all guests for the run of the season from May through October 2014. 

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Thursday, 2.27.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Houston Artist Rick Lowe as Inaugural Artist-in-Residence

Nasher XChange participant and Project Row Houses founder expands impact as social sculptor with new Nasher Sculpture Center partnership.

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Wednesday, 2.19.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents Sightings: Bettina Pousttchi

Continuing our Sightings series of installations and interventions, the Nasher Sculpture Center will present the first American museum exhibition of German-Iranian artist, Bettina Pousttchi, open April 12  through July 13, 2014.

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Wednesday, 2.19.14

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and Nasher Sculpture Center bring their masterpieces onto the Google Art Project

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Nasher Sculpture Center announced today that together these three North Texas museums are adding more than a combined 1,700 high-resolution works of art to the Google Art Project. The Art Project allows online visitors to explore the museums’ paintings, sculptures, and other objects virtually. 

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Thursday, 2.13.14

Artists Announced for Annual The Great Create Family Fundraising Event Benefiting Nasher Education Programs

The Nasher Sculpture Center, along with Co-Chairs Courtney and Jeff Sinelli and Tonya and Todd Ramsey, are pleased to announce the artists for the second annual family fundraising event The Great Create, which will take place on Sunday, April 27, 2014 from 1-4 pm.  
 

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Thursday, 1.16.14

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Spring Break Offerings: ½ Price Week-day Admission &‘til Midnight at the Nasher

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to announce plans for spring break 2014, which includes half price admission for the week and the return of the popular FREE family event, ‘til Midnight at the Nasher.
 

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Sunday, 10.20.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Surpasses Historic Fundraising Goal for Nasher XChange with donations over $3 million

Represents the museum’s largest fundraising initiative to date; Funds raised will support Nasher XChange, the first citywide, museum curated exhibition in the United States organized in conjunction with the 10th anniversary.

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Tuesday, 10.15.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Exhibition, Nasher XChange, Featuring Ten New Commissions, Opens to Commemorate Museum’s 10th Anniversary

Public sculpture exhibition features local, national and international artists responding to local community, October 19, 2013 to February 16, 2014.

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Wednesday, 10.9.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Special 10 Year Anniversary NasherSalons featuring Architect Renzo Piano and Artist/Playwright Robert Wilson

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to announce two NasherSalon events featuring Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano and Pulitzer Prize nominated artist Robert Wilson.

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Tuesday, 9.24.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents to Return Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso

Nasher-curated exhibition held in conjunction with museum’s 10th anniversary; On view September 21 through January 19, 2014

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Thursday, 9.12.13

Nasher Sculpture Center’s Soundings Concert Honoring JFK with New Work by American Composer Steven Mackey to be Performed at City Performance Hall

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to announce that the JFK commemorative Soundings concert will be performed at City Performance Hall.

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Wednesday, 9.11.13

Nasher Sculpture Center to Commemorate 10th Anniversary

To commemorate its 10th  anniversary and the opening of Nasher XChange, the Nasher Sculpture Center will present 10+ on Sunday, October 20 from 10 am to 10 pm.

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Monday, 8.26.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Commissions Sculpture by Artist Rachel Harrison at City Hall for City-Wide, Public Art Exhibition Nasher XChange

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to reveal the plans for a newly commissioned object by artist Rachel Harrison that will be located in the heart of downtown at Dallas City Hall. 

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Monday, 8.26.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Commissions Sculpture by Artist Lara Almarcegui for Southeast Dallas Neighborhood for City-Wide, Public Art Exhibition Nasher XChange; Project in Collaboration with Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity

The Nasher Sculpture Center reveals plans for a newly commissioned sculpture by artist Lara Almarcegui in Oak Cliff Gardens neighborhood, created in collaboration with Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity.

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Thursday, 8.22.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Commissions Sculpture by Artist Charles Long at NorthPark Center Benefiting Three North Texas Charities for City-Wide, Public Art Exhibition Nasher XChange

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to reveal the plans for a newly commissioned sculpture by artist Charles Long that will be located at NorthPark Center and benefit three local charities: Bookmarks, a branch of the Dallas Library, Dallas CASA and the North Texas Food Bank.

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Friday, 8.16.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Commissions Work by Vicki Meek in Collaboration with Paul Quinn College for City-Wide, Public Art Exhibition Nasher XChange

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to reveal the plans for a newly commissioned work by artist Vicki Meek that will be located on the campus of Paul Quinn College.

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Wednesday, 8.7.13

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Nasher Sculpture Center Present David Bates

Joint exhibition of the work of David Bates presented by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas; On View: February 9 through May 11, 2014.

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Friday, 8.2.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Commissions New Project by Good/Bad Art Collective at Downtown’s Bryan Tower for City-Wide, Public Art Exhibition Nasher XChange

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to reveal the plans for a newly commissioned project by Good/Bad Art Collective for Bryan Tower, a 40-story office building located in downtown Dallas.

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Sunday, 7.28.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Commissions Sculpture by Alfredo Jaar in Collaboration with Dallas Hospitals for City-Wide, Public Art Exhibition Nasher XChange

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to reveal the plans for a newly commissioned sculpture by artist Alfredo Jaar, which will be created in collaboration with Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, Methodist Dallas Medical Center and Parkland Health & Hospital System.

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Friday, 7.19.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Commissions Sculpture by Liz Larner at The University of Texas at Dallas

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to reveal the plans for a newly commissioned sculpture by artist Liz Larner for The University of Texas at Dallas.

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Saturday, 7.6.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Commissions Sculpture by Ugo Rondinone at West Dallas’ Fish Trap Lake for City-Wide, Public Art Exhibition Nasher XChange

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to reveal the plans for a newly commissioned public artwork by artist Ugo Rondinone that will be placed on the shores of West Dallas’ Fish Trap Lake, a site owned by the Dallas Housing Authority.

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Monday, 6.24.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces 2013-2014 Season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to welcome back for a fourth season, Soundings: New Music at the Nasher, the critically-acclaimed new music series featuring groundbreaking performances created under the direction of Seth Knopp, a founding member of the Peabody Trio and artistic director of Yellow Barn. The series will present four distinct concerts on Friday, October 4; Saturday, November 23 and Sunday, November 24; Friday, April 4; and Thursday, May 15.

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Friday, 6.21.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Commissions Social Sculpture in Vickery Meadow Neighborhood for City-Wide, Public Art Exhibition Nasher XChange

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to reveal the plans for a newly commissioned social sculpture by artist Rick Lowe for the Vickery Meadow neighborhood, a three square-mile area that makes up one of the most culturally diverse sections of Dallas.

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Friday, 6.14.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Commissions Sculpture By Ruben Ochoa At Trinity River Audubon Center

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to reveal the plans for a newly commissioned sculpture by artist Ruben Ochoa, inspired by its site at the Trinity River Audubon Center, the artist’s first sculpture commissioned for the public realm. The work is one of ten commissions created for the Nasher’s 10th anniversary, city-wide exhibition Nasher XChange. The sculpture will be on view at the Trinity River Audubon Center during Nasher XChange from October 19, 2013 through February 16, 2014.

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Friday, 5.17.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Katharina Grosse: Wunderblock

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to present Katharina Grosse: WUNDERBLOCK from June 1 to September 1, 2013 featuring two new works created specifically for the museum by the Berlin-based artist.

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Thursday, 4.25.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Receives National Endowment For The Arts Grant To Support Nasher XChange

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to announce that it has been recommended to receive a $60,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the Nasher XChange exhibition, which will commemorate the center’s 10th anniversary this fall.

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Thursday, 3.21.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Series Line-up for ‘til Midnight at the Nasher; FREE Event Admission Offered from 6 pm to Midnight

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to announce the summer concert/movie line-up for the 2013 season of ‘til Midnight at the Nasher. The popular evening program will offer complimentary admission to all guests for the run of the season from May through October 2013.

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Wednesday, 3.13.13

2013 Dallas Design Symposium features The New York Times Chief Architecture Critic Michael Kimmelman

The Nasher Sculpture Center and Dallas Architecture Forum are pleased to announce Michael Kimmelman, chief architecture critic, The New York Times, as the keynote speaker for the 2013 Dallas Design Symposium.  

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Friday, 3.1.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Spring Speaker Lineup for 360: Artists, Critics, Curators

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to announce the spring line-up for the 2013 Nasher lecture series, 360: Artists, Critics, Curators, which brings art world speakers to the Nasher for conversations about the ever-expanding definition of sculpture and the thought-processes behind innovative contemporary artwork, architecture and design.

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Friday, 3.1.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents Sightings: Nathan Mabry

To initiate a new year of its Sightings series of installations and interventions, the Nasher Sculpture Center presents an exhibition in the Garden featuring the works of LA-based artist Nathan Mabry from April 12 through July 7, 2013.

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Monday, 2.25.13

The Last Testament of Ken Price

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to present Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, a groundbreaking exhibition featuring almost 100 works by the prolific ceramic artist, Ken Price (1935-2012). 

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Monday, 8.13.12

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents Sightings: Eva Rothschild

For the next iteration of the ongoing Sightings series of installations and architectural interventions by contemporary artists, the Nasher Sculpture Center has commissioned Eva Rothschild to create a site-specific sculpture for the museum’s entrance bay. 

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Friday, 7.20.12

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Fall Exhibitions: Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture & Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960–80

Exhibitions on view September 29, 2012 through January 13, 2013

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Friday, 4.27.12

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents Ernesto Neto Cuddle on the Tightrope

The Nasher Sculpture Center has invited internationally-renowned Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto to create a new work for one of the large, Renzo Piano-designed galleries at the Nasher Sculpture Center.  Ernesto Neto Cuddle on the Tightrope will be on view May 12 through September 9, 2012. 

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Friday, 4.13.12

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents Sightings: Erick Swenson

Nasher to debut new work by Dallas-based artist; On view April 14 – July 8, 2012

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Tuesday, 4.10.12

NasherSALON to Welcome Urban Planner and Civic Activist

In recognizing the evolution of Dallas urban landscape planning and in celebration of Klyde Warren Park, the Nasher Sculpture Center welcomes Amanda Burden, FAICP, commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning, as the featured guest of the NasherSALON, promoting cultural conversations within the community. 

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Thursday, 3.1.12

NasherSALON to Welcome Italian-American Actress, Model, Filmmaker and Activist Isabella Rossellini on April 10

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to announce Italian-American actress, model, filmmaker and wildlife activist Isabella Rossellini as a featured guest of the popular NasherSALON, which brings cultural conversations to the community.

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Friday, 1.27.12

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to present Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae, January 28 – April 22, 2012, featuring 12 recent medium- to large-scale wall-mounted and free-standing constructions highlighting Elliott Hundley's investigations of the ancient Greek tragedy The Bacchae (ca. 406 BC) by Euripides.

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Monday, 1.16.12

NasherSALON to Welcome Broadway Sensation Lin-Manuel Miranda

Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist headlines Salon on Monday, March 5 in celebration of In the Heights Dallas debut.

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Tuesday, 6.1.10

Summer at the Nasher Kicks off with Free Admission to Nasher Cafe, New Free Wi-Fi & Special Summer Events

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to welcome the return of Summer at the Nasher presented by Frost.  The summertime series, which takes place June 1 through September 1, 2010 at the Nasher Sculpture Center, earned a “top pick” for summer in the 2010 Southern Living Magazine’s “Best Of” issue. 

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