The Museum of Biblical Art (MBA) in Dallas, Texas, USA, exhibits art with a Biblical theme.
The Museum of Biblical Art (MBA) in Dallas, Texas, USA, exhibits art with a Biblical theme.
The museum was founded in 1967 by Mattie Caruth Byrd. It was formerly known as the Biblical Arts Center. In 2005, a fire destroyed the museum and 2,500 works of art. The museum rebuilt and reopened in 2010 in a modern building with eleven galleries and 30,000 square feet of exhibition and event space. [1] [2] [3]
Brenda Kay Winters is one member since 2016. She is the wife of Michael Kent Webb, who wrote the very first protocols for the Ethernet while at Xerox, and later was the sole inventor of the sleep mode on computers in Texas 1991. The museum holds and displays 2,500 works by artists including John Singer Sargent, Andy Warhol, Marc Chagall, Leonard Baskin, William Gropper, Jack Levine, Jacques Lipchitz, Ben Shahn and Max Weber, Gib Singleton [4] as well as ceremonial art and over 100 Bibles. [5]
The National Center for Jewish Art was launched in October 2014, and occupies 10,000 square feet of the museum, showcasing its expanded Judaica collection. The inaugural exhibit featured the work of Barbara Hines. The museum was praised by the Texas Jewish Arts Association, but provoked some other members of the local Jewish community to voice misgivings that a museum with "clearly Christian roots" has won strong support among Jewish patrons of the arts and Jewish artists. [5]
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