Dallas is a leading national art center with excellent museums and contemporary art galleries. The density of the Dallas art community gives students opportunities to see significant works of art and where they might lead. The Division of Art’s Pollock Gallery brings to SMU numerous exhibitions focused around intense learning. The Meadows Museum at SMU not only boasts Velázquez, Picasso, El Greco, Goya, and Murillo in its permanent collection but features several international exhibitions each year. Art in the Meadows School asks students to have something to say and to have the discipline to say it.

Other significant regional resources include:

• Dallas Museum of Art
• Nasher Sculpture Center
• The Rachofsky House
• Kimbell Art Museum, featuring architecture by Louis Kahn
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
• Amon Carter Museum of American Art
• Numerous Dallas galleries (View a list at www.caddallas.net)
• Architecture to admire, including the Meyerson Symphony Center by I.M. Pei, the Nasher Sculpture Center by Renzo Piano, the Winspear Opera House by Norman Foster, and the Wyly Theatre by Rem Koolhaas.