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DALLAS, TX.- All the World’s a Stage: Celebrating
Performance in the Visual Arts, the Dallas Museum of Art exhibition opening on
August 30, 2009, will showcase a fresh look at the Museum’s collections
in an interactive installation to commemorate the opening of the Dallas
Center for the Performing Arts and the completion of the Dallas Arts District.
Nearly 125 works spanning 2,600 years of human creativity, including
paintings, sculptures, photography, and objects from around the world, will
illustrate how dance, music, and theater performance is an essential human
instinct.
 All the World’s a Stage, on view through February 28,
2010, will use the breadth of the Museum’s collections to depict how
performance, in all its varied forms, has been created, transformed, and
documented by visual artists, working in concert with dancers, musicians, and
actors to both shape and record their efforts.
Encompassing all time
periods and cultures, and a broad range of media, the exhibition features such
masterpieces as Pietro Paolini’s Bacchic Concert, Jean-Antoine-Théodore
Giroust’s Oedipus at Colonus, Pablo Picasso’s The Guitarist, Romare Bearden’s
Soul Three, and a group of Edward Degas’s pastels of ballet dancers, as well as
masterworks from the Museum’s distinguished collections from Africa, Asia, and
the Pacific. Organized across time and culture, thematic groupings of artworks
in the exhibition include why we perform, how we perform, who is a performer,
where performances take place, and what makes a performance.
Of special
note, All the World’s a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts has
been organized collaboratively by all of the DMA’s curators, and the exhibition
design will include a presentation space within the galleries that will host a
variety of performers at special times throughout the exhibition
The discovery of the 35,000 year-old flute demonstrates the earliest
known flowering of music-making. An amazing example of the enduring human
impulse to perform, the DMA will further illustrate the power of performance and
its connection to the visual arts in the forthcoming exhibition, All the World’s
a Stage.
All the world’s a stage at the Dallas Museum of Art! Enjoy an evening of
concerts, flamenco dancing, performances in the galleries, family experiences,
and more. Stay late for a screening of the original movie Fame, open
mic, and a performance by The Shapes featuring the Lolli Dollies.
The Dallas Museum of Art is supported in part by the generosity of
Museum members and by the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas/Office
of Cultural Affairs and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Visit :
http://www.dm-art.org/index.htm
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