Dallas Museum of Art curates Impressionist exhibition from its own collection amid rising shipping costs
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Kate Taylor
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The article discusses how museums are adapting to rising costs and carbon footprint concerns by curating exhibitions from their own collections rather than borrowing from international lenders. It focuses on curator Nicole Myers at the Dallas Museum of Art, who organized an Impressionist exhibition for the 150th anniversary of the movement's first exhibition in 1874 using only works from the museum's own collection. The exhibition examines how Impressionism, once considered scandalous, transformed modern art — spanning from Monet to Mondrian.
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· 3 pulledFacing the rising costs and carbon footprint of shipping art, museums are getting imaginative about curating tight shows from their own collections rather than assembling vast surveys from multiple international lenders.
Asked to mark the 150th anniversary of the Impressionists' first exhibition in 1874, curator Nicole Myers considered what story she could tell with what lay at hand at the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas.
By the standard of the American museums established in the Gilded Age, Dallas has a relatively new collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist
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