Art lovers will have an opportunity to travel around the world and back in time with a visit to Galleria Dallas next month.
The mall is teaming up with the Dallas Museum of Art to spotlight some of the great centuries-old works of the Flemish Masters.
The exhibit Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks is currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art. However, in a unique partnership, the DMA is bringing a free sampling of the experience to Galleria Dallas shoppers.
Reproductions of selected paintings from the exhibit will be on display on the Gallery Wall located on Level 1 — next to Sephora — for the entire month of March.
To further encourage engagement with the arts, staff from the DMA will be on hand at the Galleria on select dates during Spring Break to offer “drop-in artmaking activities for families.” The artmaking sessions, led by the DMA’s Community Engagement Team, will take place from 10 a.m. to noon on March 7, 9, 14, and 16 on Level 3 near the Children’s Play Place.
The DMA’s partnership with Galleria Dallas is part of the museum’s mission to make art accessible to all in North Texas, according to Agustín Arteaga, the museum’s Eugene McDermott director.
“The Gallery Wall opportunity provided by Galleria Dallas helps us to meet our community where they are,” Arteaga said, according to Preston Hollow Advocate.
Galleria Dallas Director of Marketing Megan Townsend said that the shopping center has a “long history of supporting art and art education,” per PHA. She added that the latest collaboration will remind people of the “amazing opportunities available at the Dallas Museum of Art.”
If the preview at the mall whets an appetite for more Baroque and Renaissance art, the entire Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools exhibit, featuring more than 130 works, can be seen at the DMA through June 25. The DMA is the last stop for the traveling exhibit before returning home to the Phoebus Foundation in Antwerp, Belgium.
The exhibit, organized by the Denver Art Museum in collaboration with the Phoebus Foundation, celebrates “the history and development of art in Flanders” (a region in what is now Belgium) from the 1400s through the 1600s.
According to a press release from the DMA, the exhibit “explores a rich repertoire of themes that reflect the societal changes of the time, while also adeptly mirroring contemporary circumstances surrounding the human condition.”
Whimsy, wit, reverence, devotion, folly, wonder, romance, wealth, and status are some of the themes explored in the collection of paintings, sculptures, and other objects from the Southern Netherlands. The exhibit includes works by Hans Memling, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Van Eyck, and many other Flemish Masters.
“Stepping into this exhibition truly feels like you’re embarking on a journey through time. We’re excited for visitors to peer through this window to the past, while also seeing reflections of their own ever-changing world,” commented Nicole R. Myers, interim chief curator at the DMA.