Join Dr. Nicole Myers, chief curatorial and research officer and Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, and Mark Scala, chief curator at the Frist Art Museum, for a conversation about The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art.
Begin the evening with a live operatic performance in the Grand Lobby from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m., featuring opera singer Sarah Antell and pianist Stephen Carey of the Nashville Opera.
The museum will remain open until 9:00 p.m. to allow guests time to visit the galleries after the conversation.
Schedule of Events
Opera in the Grand Lobby
5:30–6:15 p.m., Main Level
Opening Conversation
6:30–7:30 p.m., Auditorium
About the Presenter
Dr. Nicole Myers is Chief Curatorial and Research Officer and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). A specialist of French painting, she has published and lectured on wide-ranging topics from Realism to Symbolism, Poussin to Van Gogh. Myers joined the DMA in 2016 and leads the Museum’s Curatorial, Conservation, and Library and Archives departments. She also oversees the European art collection, which spans painting and sculpture from classical antiquity through mid-20th-century Modernism.
At the DMA, Myers has curated numerous exhibitions, including the critically acclaimed Van Gogh and the Olives Groves, co-organized with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (2021–22); Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris, co-organized with the Baltimore Museum of Art (2021); and Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist, co-organized with the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Barnes Foundation, and the Musée d’Orsay (2018–19). Most recently, Myers curated The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse, which was presented at the DMA in 2024 and is currently traveling in a repackaged presentation to five North American venues.
Before joining the DMA, Myers served as the Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to that, she held curatorial positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Myers completed her MA and PhD in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University with a dissertation on Gustave Courbet’s Realist nudes, and her BA in Art History & Archaeology and French at Washington University in St. Louis, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Vincent van Gogh. Sheaves of Wheat, 1890. Oil on canvas; 20 × 40 in. Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, 1985.R.80.
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