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I n transformative news for the American museum world, and most notably in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art has made an unexpected and vital hire: Dr. Agustín Arteaga, currently director of Museum Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), has been named the DMA's new Eugene McDermott Director. Arteaga assumes his new duties Thursday, September 1, taking over the post that's been vacant since Dr. Maxwell Anderson's departure a year earlier. The choice of the new director came as surprising news, a development that would perhaps be more expected at another institution — the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), with its commitment to modern and contemporary art from Latin America. Dr. Arteaga's hire by the DMA is an out-of-the-box coup, a bold vote by board trustees to stretch the role and vision of the museum. Arteaga is a bilingual, versatile curator and scholar with encyclopedic knowledge encompassing everything from Old Masters to Pop. Born in Mexico City, he trained as an architect, then headed the Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) in Puerto Rico and served as founding director of Argentina's acclaimed Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) Fundación Costantini. Significantly for the DMA, with its contemporary slant, Arteaga is conversant with today's art stars such as Guillermo Kuitca and 20th-century innovator Lasar Segall of Brazil. He's known to be an audience builder, having substantially increased museum attendance at his current post. In the 1990s, he supervised a network of more than 20 museums across Mexico, and has expertise with capital campaigns, having led the MALBA in Buenos Aires from idea to institution — a new $30 million museum building in 2002. The new director is married to Carlos Gonzalez-Jaime, who will join him in Dallas. Catherine D. Anspon The Scholar from MEXICO CITY Dallas Museum of Art's Game Changer Election Day Drama: What could be a more topical show this year than the Nasher Sculpture Center's "Kathryn Andrews: Run for President." The museum must have a crystal ball to know this would be one of the most contentious election cycles in at least a century of American politics (September 10 – January 8). Collage King with a Bible + Taking on Pollock: Cris Worley Fine Arts recruits Houston talent Patrick Turk for its season opener (September 10 – October 8). The master of collage is armed with a cabinet of curiosities obsession, which he describes as "my visual interpretation of Genesis from the Old Testament … Adam, the sin, and casting out of Eden and God's curses on Adam and Eve" … At neighbor, Holly Johnson Gallery, the elegiac paintings of prodigal Texan James Buss promise a quiet impact (September 10 – November 12). The artist was last seen at Site 131 this summer in an exhibition that dialogued with Pollock's "black pourings," which closed at the DMA this spring. All Creatures Great and Small: Painter, preservationist, and dandy Hunt Slonem solos at Laura Rathe Fine Art, beginning his new affiliation with the Design District dealer. Expect more of Slonem's inimitable menagerie — birds, bunnies, and butterflies —as well as a lecture/book signing of When Art Meets Design (Assouline, 2014, $85) and Bunnies (Glitterati, 2014, $95) Thursday, September 8, 6 pm (exhibition September 10 – October 8). Catherine D. Anspon Art Notes T he new Tory Sport boutique in NorthPark Center is the first team- Tory activewear store outside New York dedicated to Tory Burch's sports label. Graphic surfboards suspended from the wall, white- washed oak pegboards, and seating inspired by French furniture icon Jean Royère conjure a bohemian surf lodge plucked from the 1970s. The high-performance neoprene long-sleeve swimsuits, tennis togs, golfing garb, running gear (track suits!), and swimwear all have a retro vibe. No doubt, the Highland Park mom set will covet the natty racquet- carrying handbag for tennis lessons at DCC this fall. Tory Sport, NorthPark Center, no phone number at press time, torysport.com. Linden Wilson SPORTY TORY 30 Dr. Agustín Arteaga PALOMA TORRES Tory Sport Fall 2016 THE EUGENE SADOVOY COLLECTION, PHOTO FREDRIK NILSEN, COURTESY DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY, L.A. Patrick Turk's Animals (detail), 2016, at Cris Worley Fine Arts COURTESY THE ARTIST AND LAURA RATHE FINE ART COURTESY THE ARTIST AND CRIS WORLEY FINE ARTS ROBIN MCMONIGLE 214.543.6903 rmcmonigle@briggsfreeman.com HELPING YOU FIND YOUR HOME & LIFESTYLE JUST LISTED 3449 Stanford 2729 Stanford 4212 VERSAILLES AVENUE | $3,495,000 JUST SOLD 6324 DOUGLAS AVENUE | $1,699,000 UNDER CONTRACT