Kimbell Art Museum: Happy Hour, Rembrandt Lecture & Dutch Art Tour

Kimbell Art Museum: Happy Hour, Rembrandt Lecture & Dutch Art Tour
It’s Friday night, let’s meetup at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth to see their new special exhibit “Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”.

There’s a docent tour at 6:30 in the Piano Pavilion - special exhibition ticket purchase required.
The tour starts at 6:30 pm but let’s meet outside the exhibit entrance at 6:20 pm for our group icebreaker introductions.
In addition to the tour, you’re welcome to participate in the Happy Hour or Rembrandt lecture (details below) or visit the Kimbell’s excellent permanent art collection.
I will most likely only attend the tour, but you are welcome to participate in the happy hour, the lecture and/or the tour.

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Kimbell Art Museum Happy Hour & Tour: Art and War in the Renaissance
Happy Hour - Allegro Guitar Society
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Kahn Building (Kimbell Café)
Enjoy live music and a selection of beverages and snacks available for purchase.

Friday Evening Lecture - Rembrandt: The World, the Studio, and a Dog
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Piano Pavilion (Pavilion Auditorium; simulcast in Kahn Auditorium)
Speaker: H. Perry Chapman, professor emerita, Department of Art History, University of Delaware.
Free

Public Tour - Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Piano Pavilion (Galleries)
Join a Kimbell docent for a tour of the exhibition, Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Paid special exhibition ticket required.

Event Calendar
https://kimbellart.org/calendar

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Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
November 10, 2024 – February 9, 2025
Piano Pavilion
In the seventeenth century, Dutch merchants sailed across seas and oceans, joining trade networks that stretched from Asia to the Americas and Africa. This unprecedented movement of goods, ideas, and people gave rise to what many consider the first age of globalization and sparked an artistic boom in the Netherlands.
Dutch Art in a Global Age brings together paintings by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jacob van Ruisdael, Maria Schalcken, and other celebrated artists from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s renowned collection. These are joined by four Dutch paintings from the Kimbell’s permanent collection, along with prints, maps, and stunning decorative objects in silver, porcelain, and more, from the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries. Exploring how Dutch dominance in international commerce transformed life in the Netherlands and created an extraordinary cultural flourishing, the exhibition also includes new scholarship that contextualizes seventeenth-century Dutch art within the complex histories of colonial expansion, wealth disparity, and the transatlantic slave trade during this period.
Exhibition Link
https://kimbellart.org/dutch-art-global-age

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The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library. Its initial artwork came from the private collection of Kay and Velma Kimbell, who also provided funds for a new building to house it.
The building was designed by architect Louis I. Kahn and is widely recognized as one of the most significant works of architecture of recent times. It is especially noted for the wash of silvery natural light across its vaulted gallery ceilings.

Museum Links:
https://kimbellart.org/
https://www.facebook.com/kimbellart/
https://www.instagram.com/kimbellartmuseum
https://www.youtube.com/user/KimbellArt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimbell_Art_Museum

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Event Details ...

Parking: The museum has a free underground parking garage and there is also street parking available. Please arrive on site early so that you have plenty of time to find parking and walk to our meeting point.

What Are The Tours Like?
YouTube Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eh3Fpt_HIM

Additional Questions: Anything that can't be answered by the event description, Google, or common sense, please let us know.

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Your host for this program is Robert Kelleman, the founder/director of the non-profit community organizations Texas History & Culture and Washington, DC History & Culture.

Texas History & Culture
A non-profit community organization
Experience the history and culture of Texas - and the world!
Meetup:
https://4142298.xyz/DallasFortWorthHistoryAndCulture/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TexasHistoryAndCulture/
Eventbrite:
https://TexasHistoryAndCulture.eventbrite.com
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@TexasHistoryAndCulture/videos

We look forward to seeing you - thanks!

Robert Kelleman
[email protected]
202-821-6325 (text only)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkelleman/