The DMA will consider potential architects from around the world, museum officials announced, for a project budgeted at $150 to $175 million.
The Dallas Museum of Art on Thursday announced the next step in solidifying
A first stage of responses is due March 15 from those wishing to be considered for the job. The museum will host a public exhibition of designs from shortlisted candidates in the summer, with the winner to be announced soon after. The winning proposal would lay out a blueprint for the DMA’s first major expansion since 1993, when architect Edward Larrabee Barnes added a new wing to his original museum building, which opened in 1984. Both the building and land under it are owned by the City of Dallas.
Arteaga said the museum, simply put, has run out of room. “Today we are no longer able to accommodate the exponential growth of our collections and are forced to keep masterworks hidden from the public due to limitations on space,” he noted. “It is time for our building to evolve to meet the current and future needs of our diverse and expansive collections and communities.”
A need for more exhibition and storage space is also driven by the projected arrival of the so-called Fast Forward bequest of 2005, in which the Dallas arts patrons Robert and Marguerite Hoffman, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, and Deedie and Rusty Rose promised their collections to the museum. Exactly when those collections will arrive is undetermined, but when they do the gifts could entail more than 1,000 works, most of them contemporary art.
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