1/14/2011 The San Jose Museum of Art Art Collections in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas Wednesday April 27th – Sunday May 1st 2011 Draft Itinerary Day One: Wednesday April 27th 2011 Individual arrival and check in at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas. The Ritz-Carlton Dallas is a stylish, contemporary downtown Dallas hotel–where glamour, graciousness and the Texas spirit meet. Opened in August 2007, The Ritz-Carlton Dallas is ideally located in the chic, picturesque enclave of uptown Dallas. Everyone will have access to the club level on floor 7 which includes food and beverage service five times daily in a private club lounge. (2121 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75201 (214) 922-0200). 7:00 p.m. Please gather in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton Dallas to meet Lisa Hahn, President of Art Horizons International as well as your art and architectural historian who will provide insightful commentary along the way. 7:15 p.m. Depart by bus for a welcome dinner at Restaurant Five Sixty. 7:30 p.m. Enjoy a welcome dinner at Five Sixty, a Wolfgang Puck restaurant. Wolfgang's incomparable Asian-influenced cuisine and award-winning service rises 560 feet above the ground atop Reunion Tower. Day Two: Thursday April 28th 2011 Dallas Enjoy breakfast at the Ritz Carlton Dallas club level on floor 7. (Breakfast is served from 7:00am-10:00am in the club lounge). 8:45 a.m. Gather in the lobby. 9:00 a.m. Depart by private motorcoach for a private collection. 9:15 a.m. Visit the private art collection and home of one of Dallas’s most important cultural leaders. The home was designed by contemporary architect Antoine Predock and features a Texas limestone windowless façade and all-glass rear façade facing dense woods and Turtle Creek. The entrance hall has a vaulting space reminiscent of I.M. Pei’s East Wing of the National Gallery. The rarefied cutting edge contemporary art collection includes pieces by Nam June Paik, Donald Judd and rare early modern American furniture. The home is a masterpiece and the owners cherish sharing it. (pending confirmation) 10:45 a.m. Depart for the Nasher Sculpture Center. 11:00 a.m. Visit the exciting Nasher Sculpture Center, which opened in October of 2003 and was designed by Renzo Piano. It includes a garden and building for the display of the collection of the late Mr. Ray Nasher, and it is considered one of the foremost collections of modern sculpture in the world. It also houses the Nasher Institute for Modern Sculpture, a research and educational resource dedicated to the study of modern sculpture. This great collection, spanning early to mid-20th century, Rodin to Smith, includes large numbers of works, both indoors and out, by Picasso, Matisse, Russian Constructivists, Calder, and Moore. 12:15 p.m. Depart for lunch by motorcoach. 12:30 p.m. Enjoy lunch at the Dragonfly Restaurant in the upscale Hotel Zaza. The cuisine, created by Chef Mark Cassel, is a combination of Mediterranean and Asian with a Moroccan flair and the setting is exotic and unique. 2:00 p.m. Depart for the AT & T Performing Arts Center. 2:15 p.m. We will view and discuss the AT & T Performing Arts Center, which opened in October 2009, a multi-venue center in the Dallas Arts District for performances of opera, musical theater, classic and experimental theater, ballet and other forms of dance. Included in the center is the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster, and the City Performance Hall designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill. 2:30 p.m. Depart by motorcoach to visit the Goss-Michael Foundation. 2:45 p.m. The Goss-Michael Foundation is a nonprofit gallery that focuses on cutting-edge British contemporary art. Founded by musician George Michael and his partner Kenny Goss in 2007, the foundation showcases the private Goss-Michael Collection as well as rotating exhibitions of top contemporary British artists. The collection includes pieces by Michael Craig-Martin, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst, Gilbert and George, Damien Hirst, Jim Lambie, Sarah Lucas, Adam McEwen, Jonathan Monk, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Richard Patterson, Marc Quinn, and Eva Rothschild. We will tour the current exhibition with a curator. 4:00 p.m. Depart for a visit to a private collection. Conclude the day with a visit to a private art collection. This blue-chip collection features classic contemporary American and European masterworks by artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Philip Guston, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. (pending confirmation) 5:30 p.m. Return to your hotel by motorcoach. 2 7:00 p.m. Attend an elegant dinner at Abacus, where guests will enjoy Five Star cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. Enjoy flavorful dishes created by Chef Kent Rathbun. The menu is influenced by Mediterranean, Cajun/Creole, American, Southwestern, and Pacific Rim cuisines. Day Three: Friday April 29th 2011 Arlington & Dallas Enjoy breakfast at the Ritz Carlton Dallas club level on floor 7. (Breakfast is served from 7:00am-10:00am in the club lounge). 8:45 a.m. Depart by motorcoach for Arlington for a tour of Cowboy Stadium. 9:15 a.m. We will tour the art collection of Cowboy Stadium with an expert. The collection consists of nineteen commissioned and original works of art by established and emerging contemporary artists. Artists featured in the collection include Olafur Eliasson, Ricci Albenda, Doug Aitken, Terry Haggerty, and Franz Ackermann 10:30 a.m. Depart for the Dallas Museum of Art by motorcoach. 11:00 a.m. Enjoy a highlights tour of the American and European painting collection. The elegant DMA, designed by Edward Larabee Barnes, houses extensive collections of ancient American, African, and contemporary art – among many other disciplines. The unique Reves collection showcases important Impressionist works, Chinese export porcelain, English silver, and even original paintings and correspondence from Sir Winston Churchill – all in a beautiful setting patterned after the French Riviera villa of the donor. The major pre-Columbian holdings in ancient American gold objects, stone sculpture, ceramics, and textiles serve as the anchor for the American collection. The permanent collection also includes masterpieces of Western art by Monet, Degas, Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin and Vuillard. The DMA’s modern art collection incorporates every important movement in contemporary art, from Abstract Expressionist works by Pollock, Rothko, Kline, and Motherwell to Pop artists including Rosenquist, Johns, Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, and Lichtenstein, plus a collection of Texas artists including David Bates, Luis Jimenez, and James Surls. The museum’s four-acre Sculpture Garden is divided by barrier walls with cascading water into a series of “galleries” housing 19th and 20th century sculpture by artists ranging from Maillol, Henry Moore, and Barbara Hepworth to Tony Smith and James Surls. A monumental abstract sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly anchors one end of a calm reflecting pool. Special Exhibitions at the DMA include: Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present December 19, 2010–January 2012 3 Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement February 13–May 8, 2011 Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection April 4–September 19, 2011 Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio January 30–July 17, 2011 12:30 p.m. Enjoy lunch at Atrium Cafe, the elegant restaurant of the Dallas Museum of Art. 2:00 p.m. Depart for a private collection. 2:15 p.m. This private collection has developed to a large extent in response to the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Philip Johnson residence in which it is housed, and in a desire to respond to contemporary art in a way that fills a niche within the community of collections in Dallas. Particular emphases are large-scale sculpture; photography and works on paper; and outdoor sculpture, including commissions of work by Ulrich Ruckriem, Giuseppe Penone, Olafur Eliasson, and Tom Friedman. Designed in the early 60’s, this residence is an example of Johnson’s ‘Historical Modern’ period connecting contemporary architecture to historical form. Extensive restorations and renovations were recently completed (pending confirmation). 3:30 p.m. Depart for a visit to the Rachofsky House. 3:45 p.m. Visit the Rachofsky House and Collection. The house was designed by Richard Meier and completed in 1996. The collection consists of artwork by international artists working in the last century and focuses on two general themes: artwork from the 1960s with special emphasis on Italian art associated with the Arte Povera movement, and contemporary work that explores notions of identity and the self. Of particular importance to the collection are works by Italian artists Piero Manzoni, Alighiero Boetti, Lucio Fontana, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Other artists with significant holdings in the Rachofksy Collection are Janine Antoni, Marc Quinn, Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Doris Salcedo, David Hammons, Mona Hatoum, and Robert Gober. We will tour the outdoor sculpture garden before departing. (pending confirmation). 5:00 p.m. Depart by motorcoach for an artist’s studio (TBD). 6:00 p.m. Return to the Ritz-Carlton Dallas. Dinner and evening are on your own. A list of nearby restaurants will be provided. Day Four: Saturday April 30th 2011 Fort Worth 8:30 a.m. Depart by motorcoach for Fort Worth for a visit to a private collection. 4 9:15/9:30 a.m.View a private art collection that is housed in a large contemporary home designed by Paul Rudolph with a spectacular garden designed by Russell Page.