The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist, has ...

On October 4, 1972, Fort Worth made a splash on the world art scene with the debut of the Kimbell Art Museum, the result of a generous gift from entrepreneur and philanthropist Kay Kimbell.

A happy exception is the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, which looks even fresher and bolder now than when it opened 50 years ago in October 1972.

At the Kimbell Art Museum, the Renzo Piano Pavilion, now 10 years old, will unveil a new, highly prized Mesoamerican work of art, on Dec. 15, 2023. The Olmecs lived from around 1200 to 400 B.C.

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Eric M. Lee, the director of Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum, often regarded as the country’s finest small museum, had his first day on the job three and a half years ago, but his admiration ...

FORT WORTH — The Kimbell Art Museum, designed by the legendary architect Louis Kahn, is beloved like few other museums built in the past century. Opened in 1972, it finessed all of the design ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth recently acquired George Stubbs’s Mares and Foals Belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, painted between about 1761 and 1762.

FORT WORTH - Kimbell Art Museum director Eric M. Lee always knows when visitors to the building are architects on a pilgrimage. They walk around to the front door of Louis Kahn's masterpiece to ...

A 227-space car park has opened at the Kimbell Art Museum that not only improves visitor parking but also represents the final development phase of the Kimbell campus, the Kimbell Art Foundation said.