Anyone who has visited the Dallas Museum of Art over the years has a favorite from the permanent collection. The space around Jackson Pollock's "Cathedral" is like a time warp, halting passers-by with swirling spatters of orange, white and black paint on a cream- and gray-colored canvas. The first time I saw Frederic Edwin Church's transcendental landscape painting "The Icebergs," I was agog, fascinated by gleaming whites, greens and ambers glowing in the sunset on the vast frozen goliaths. A wildly colored Dale Chihuly blown-glass sculpture climbs the soaring windows in the atrium and has a constant circle of people dining below. These works are the popular kids in the class, the ones that shine the brightest and get the most attention, but the museum's assemblage is more... More >>>