Dallas Museum of Art to host "All the World’s a Stage ~ Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts"

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:19 PM PDT

DALLAS, TX.- The dynamic and historic connections between the visual and performing arts will be explored in two exhibitions—one focusing on contemporary artists and the other spanning multiple eras and cultures—at the Dallas Museum of Art. Drawn from the DMA’s encyclopedic collections and special loans, the exhibitions will be presented in conjunction with this fall’s historic opening of the new Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and the completion of the Dallas Arts District. The exhibition will also incorporate several theatrical tableaux in photography, including pieces by Cindy Sherman, Nic Nicosia, Matthew Barney, and Gregory Crewdson, among others. In these images, conventions of costume, character, and set are combined to create characters and scenarios often found on the stage.