When the Kimbell Art Museum secured Jean Siméon Chardin’s “The Basket of Wild Strawberries” at auction for almost 24.4 million euros ($26.4 million) last March, the Texas institution ...

The Texas museum was the underbidder on “The Cut Melon” last June at Christie's, but was ultimately able to acquire it ...

Jean Siméon Chardin's 1760 painting The Cut Melon is officially headed to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, after a failed attempt to win it at auction. Last June, the Chardin painting set ...

The greatest work of modern architecture in Texas? That’s easy: Louis I. Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum, in Fort Worth, which just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. In the decades since its ...

(Kimbell Art Museum) The Kimbell Art Museum is celebrating ... greatest modern building in the United States, and certainly in Texas — but in its elemental forms and materiality, it is ...

Later, at Texas Wesleyan University, Jackson got an assignment to write about a Kimbell exhibit . Returning to the museum, Jackson remembered that long-ago field trip, even recalling some of what ...

At the center of this transformation is the Kimbell Art Museum, the district’s marquee attraction and Texas’s most revered architectural monument. Regarded as a classic even before it opened ...

The Kimbell Art Museum opened to the public 50 years ago on October 4,1972. It has now existed for almost eight times longer than it it took its architect, Louis I. Kahn, to conceive and construct ...

the de Menil Museum in Houston and the Piano Pavillion. "Light is the most important material here," Piano said of the Kimbell. "And the light is the Texas light. And working with light in Texas ...

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. The building sits in the city’s ...