Keeping The Nasher Collection Local

One of the world’s finest collections of sculpture is located in Dallas, Texas. This is a fine thing for Dallasites, but such remote outposts of great art have a way of rankling the artistic glitterati in New York, London, and other ‘glamour cities,’ and for years, various museums and collectors have schemed and plotted various courses of action by which they might acquire the Nasher Collection. “But to the relief of home fans, Mr. Nasher, having thoroughly enjoyed the wooing, rejected the suitors… [This week,] the $70 million Nasher Sculpture Center, a smashing combination of indoor museum and outdoor environment built and owned by the Nasher Foundation, opens to the public.”