The Best Little Museums in Texas
Art lovers have figured out that Dallas and Fort Worth have a collection of some of the finest art institutes in the country--and they can all be toured over a long weekend.
By Jim Atkinson
Texas is now on the cultural tourism map, thanks to its museums and emerging arts communities, like the one in Fort Worth, where artist Vernon Fisher has his studio.PHOTO: Miki Duisterhof
A gallery at the Kimbell Art Museum.PHOTO: Miki Duisterhof
The Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando and is one of the largest museums of 20th-century art in America.PHOTO: Miki Duisterhof
"We have been a well kept secret," says Ted Pillsbury, curator of the Meadows Museum, in Dallas, "although that is changing fast."PHOTO: Miki Duisterhof
Richard Deacon's Like a Bird at the Nasher in Dallas, Texas.PHOTO: Miki Duisterhof
Mark di Suvero's Eviva Amore, in the Nasher sculpture garden, in Dallas.PHOTO: Miki Duisterhof
The Amon Carter Museum specializes in art of the American West created before 1940.PHOTO: Miki Duisterhof
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