In 2017, the Dallas Museum of Art became the first and only museum to acquire Matthew Wong’s work during his lifetime. The painting, The West, exhibits many hallmarks of Wong’s distinctive style: the sensorial use of nonmimetic color, the vast landscape, the lone figure. It conveys the artist’s singular approach to the world, one that finds...

Director’s Foreword

The Power of Gold: Asante Royal Regalia from Ghana and its accompanying catalogue constitute the Dallas Museum of Art’s first exhibition devoted to Asante art and culture. The exhibition unites key objects of Asante art from the DMA’s rich and diverse collection of the arts of Africa with masterpieces from private collections and institutions around the globe to illustrate the...