In late spring, the Dallas Museum of Art will present an exhibition featuring international textiles ranging in date from the late 19th to the middle of the 20th century, half of which are recent additions to the DMA's permanent collection and will be shown for the first time.

The Dallas Museum of Art presents this summer the nationally acclaimed exhibition Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy. It is an intimate look at the couple who inspired and truly lived the modernist movement. Best remembered as the captivating American “expats” who inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, Sara and Gerald Murphy are for the first time being considered in a major museum exhibition as forces in their own right.

In January, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) announced that Nona and Richard Barrett of Dallas gave more than 100 works from their outstanding private collection of contemporary Texas art to the permanent collections of both museums.

The Dallas Museum of Art announces a hot new lineup for the 25th annual series of free outdoor concerts – Chase Presents Jazz Under the Stars. The 2008 series hosts a diverse schedule of performances from Dixieland and swing to mainstream jazz.

The O’Donnell Foundation announces the opening of the Young Masters’ Juried Exhibition, running through May 4, 2008, comprising over thirty-seven two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art created by students from ten area high schools participating in the Advanced Placement Studio Arts Incentive Program.

Discovering Texas: The Works of Robert Jenkins Onderdonk provides an intimate look at nearly three dozen paintings, watercolors, and drawings spanning the career of one of Early Texas’s most important artists.

The Dallas Museum of Art recently acquired Jacques-Louis David's dramatic work, Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe, through the Mrs. John B. O'Hara Fund of the Foundation for the Arts as the newest addition to the Museum's permanent collection, it was announced by John R. Lane, the Eugene McDermott Director of the DMA.

A cutting-edge educational museum, the Dallas Museum of Art’s training programs continue to expand, as the 2007–2008 class of McDermott Curatorial Interns are organizing the first-ever intern-curated exhibition, titled Either Side of Gray: Exploring Black and White.

Beginning May 18, 2008 an running through August 24, 2008 , On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages, the first U.S. museum exhibition in 15 years of internationally renowned artist On Kawara's work— and one of the largest major presentations of his work anywhere—will go on view in the Dallas Museum of Art's Barrel Vault and Hanley, Lamont, Rachofsky and Stoffel Quadrant Galleries.

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) announced that Nona and Richard Barrett of Dallas have given more than 100 works from their outstanding private collection of contemporary Texas art to the permanent collections of both museums.

British-turned-Mexican surrealist painter Leonora Carrington turned 90 in April of 2007, and the Dallas Museum of Art’s new exhibition will celebrate the artist’s long and productive life, highlighting works from the late 1930s to the 1980s.

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced it will host a retrospective of photographs taken by department store magnate Stanley Marcus (1905-2002), a man who shaped the history of Dallas, the Lone Star state and fashion in America.