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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Downtown Dallas Art, Architecture & History Tour (FREE) & Optional Lunch AfterFlying Horse Coffee Shop, Dallas, TX
Downtown Dallas Art, Architecture & History Guided Walking Tour (FREE) with Optional Exchange Hall Lunch After!
Saturday, June 21 - 9:00 am. All are welcome.
Meeting Point: The Flying Horse Café (inside the Magnolia Dallas Downtown) – 1401 Commerce Street - Dallas.
All are welcome.We invite you to join us for a FREE guided walking tour of downtown Dallas focusing on the Big D’s art, architecture and history.
Highlights include:
Magnolia & Adolphus Hotels
The AT&T Discovery District
AT&T Discovery District
Giant Eyeball Sculpture
Historic Majestic Theatre
Thanks-Giving Square & Chapel by Philip Johnson
Fountain Place
Whaling Wall Mural
Several Historical Markers, Noteworthy Buildings & Public Art Works
Optional Lunch Afterwards at the AT&T Exchange HallOur walk will be hosted by Robert and Michele and will cover approximately 2 miles at a moderate pace, with several stops along the way for pictures, etc.
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Event Details ...
Cost: FREE for the guided walking tour - optional lunch afterward at your own expense.
Weather: This event will take place light rain or shine. If it’s on our calendar then we’re proceeding as planned.
Parking: Several options throughout the area, and the AT&T District has several affordable parking garages. Please arrive in the area several minutes early so that you have time to find parking and walk to our meeting point.
Before the Event: Optional lunch, socializing and restrooms at the Flying Horse Café.
Meeting Point: 9:00 am at the Flying Horse Café (inside the Magnolia Dallas Downtown): 1401 Commerce Street - Dallas, https://www.flyinghorsecafe.com/ - please be on-time or early. Look for your hosts Robert (wearing a fedora-style hat) and Michele (also wearing a hat) along with a group of friendly people. We’ll depart on our walk at approximately 9:10 am.
Icebreaker Introductions: We should have a good-sized group and so instead of everyone introducing themselves to the group we will get to know each other by distributing blank stickers and colored markers and we’ll ask everyone to write down on their sticker: 1). first name. 2). favorite food. 3). dream vacation. Example: “Michele - Strawberries - Kenya” or “Robert - Chocolate - Tokyo”.
Late Arrivals: Follow the Itinerary below and catch-up.
Walking Distance: Approximately 2.0 miles at a moderate pace with several stops along the way.
Ending Point: AT&T Discovery District
After the Event: Optional group lunch at the Exchange (Food) Hall. https://theexchangehall.com/eat/
What Are These Walking Tours Like?
YouTube Preview Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eh3Fpt_HIMAdditional Questions: Anything that can't be answered by the event description, Google, or common sense, please let us know.
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Itinerary (Subject to Change)
Magnolia Hotel (1922) - 1401 Commerce Street
Adolphus Hotel (1912) - 1321 Commerce Street
AT&T Discovery District - 308 South Akard Street
AT&T Media Wall - 1400 Jackson Street
Spirit of Communication Statue (Evelyn Beatrice Longman) - 311 South Akard Street
Allan Brooks Historical Marker (1910) - 1500 Main Street
Pegasus Plaza (1934) - 1500 Main Street
Giant Eyeball Sculpture (Tony Tasset) - 1601 Main Street
Neiman Marcus Flagship Store (1914) - 1618 Main Street
Majestic Theater (1920) - 1925 Elm Street
Pacific Plaza - 401 North Harwood Street
Thanks-Giving Square (Philip Johnson) - 1627 Pacific Avenue
Fountain Place - 1445 Ross Avenue
Whaling Wall Mural (Robert Wyland) - 505 North Akard Street
AT&T Discovery District - 308 South Akard Street
The Exchange (Food) Hall - 211 South Akard Street***
Your host for this program is Robert Kelleman, the founder/director of the non-profit community organizations Texas History & Culture and Washington, DC History & Culture.
Texas History & Culture
A non-profit community organization.
Experience the history and culture of Texas - and the world!
Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/DallasFortWorthHistoryAndCulture/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TexasHistoryAndCulture/
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@TexasHistoryAndCulture/videos
Eventbrite:
https://TexasHistoryAndCulture.eventbrite.comDonations Support Our Non-Profit Community Programs - Thank You!
PayPal: DCHistoryAndCulture@gmail.com
Venmo: @DCHistoryAndCulture
GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/d29491c0We look forward to seeing you - thanks!
Robert Kelleman
rkelleman@yahoo.com
202-821-6325 (text only)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkelleman/ - Downtown Dallas Art, Architecture & History Tour (FREE) & Optional Lunch AfterFlying Horse Coffee Shop, Dallas, TX
Downtown Dallas Art, Architecture & History Guided Walking Tour (FREE) with Optional Exchange Hall Lunch After!
Saturday, August 23 - 9:00 am. All are welcome.
Meeting Point: The Flying Horse Café (inside the Magnolia Dallas Downtown) – 1401 Commerce Street - Dallas.
All are welcome.We invite you to join us for a FREE guided walking tour of downtown Dallas focusing on the Big D’s art, architecture and history.
Highlights include:
Magnolia & Adolphus Hotels
The AT&T Discovery District
AT&T Discovery District
Giant Eyeball Sculpture
Historic Majestic Theatre
Thanks-Giving Square & Chapel by Philip Johnson
Fountain Place
Whaling Wall Mural
Several Historical Markers, Noteworthy Buildings & Public Art Works
Optional Lunch Afterwards at the AT&T Exchange HallOur walk will be hosted by Robert and Michele and will cover approximately 2 miles at a moderate pace, with several stops along the way for pictures, etc.
***
Event Details ...
Cost: FREE for the guided walking tour - optional lunch afterward at your own expense.
Weather: This event will take place light rain or shine. If it’s on our calendar then we’re proceeding as planned.
Parking: Several options throughout the area, and the AT&T District has several affordable parking garages. Please arrive in the area several minutes early so that you have time to find parking and walk to our meeting point.
Before the Event: Optional lunch, socializing and restrooms at the Flying Horse Café.
Meeting Point: 9:00 am at the Flying Horse Café (inside the Magnolia Dallas Downtown): 1401 Commerce Street - Dallas, https://www.flyinghorsecafe.com/ - please be on-time or early. Look for your hosts Robert (wearing a fedora-style hat) and Michele (also wearing a hat) along with a group of friendly people. We’ll depart on our walk at approximately 9:10 am.
Icebreaker Introductions: We should have a good-sized group and so instead of everyone introducing themselves to the group we will get to know each other by distributing blank stickers and colored markers and we’ll ask everyone to write down on their sticker: 1). first name. 2). favorite food. 3). dream vacation. Example: “Michele - Strawberries - Kenya” or “Robert - Chocolate - Tokyo”.
Late Arrivals: Follow the Itinerary below and catch-up.
Walking Distance: Approximately 2.0 miles at a moderate pace with several stops along the way.
Ending Point: AT&T Discovery District
After the Event: Optional group lunch at the Exchange (Food) Hall. https://theexchangehall.com/eat/
What Are These Walking Tours Like?
YouTube Preview Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eh3Fpt_HIMAdditional Questions: Anything that can't be answered by the event description, Google, or common sense, please let us know.
***
Itinerary (Subject to Change)
Magnolia Hotel (1922) - 1401 Commerce Street
Adolphus Hotel (1912) - 1321 Commerce Street
AT&T Discovery District - 308 South Akard Street
AT&T Media Wall - 1400 Jackson Street
Spirit of Communication Statue (Evelyn Beatrice Longman) - 311 South Akard Street
Allan Brooks Historical Marker (1910) - 1500 Main Street
Pegasus Plaza (1934) - 1500 Main Street
Giant Eyeball Sculpture (Tony Tasset) - 1601 Main Street
Neiman Marcus Flagship Store (1914) - 1618 Main Street
Majestic Theater (1920) - 1925 Elm Street
Pacific Plaza - 401 North Harwood Street
Thanks-Giving Square (Philip Johnson) - 1627 Pacific Avenue
Fountain Place - 1445 Ross Avenue
Whaling Wall Mural (Robert Wyland) - 505 North Akard Street
AT&T Discovery District - 308 South Akard Street
The Exchange (Food) Hall - 211 South Akard Street***
Your host for this program is Robert Kelleman, the founder/director of the non-profit community organizations Texas History & Culture and Washington, DC History & Culture.
Texas History & Culture
A non-profit community organization.
Experience the history and culture of Texas - and the world!
Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/DallasFortWorthHistoryAndCulture/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TexasHistoryAndCulture/
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@TexasHistoryAndCulture/videos
Eventbrite:
https://TexasHistoryAndCulture.eventbrite.comDonations Support Our Non-Profit Community Programs - Thank You!
PayPal: DCHistoryAndCulture@gmail.com
Venmo: @DCHistoryAndCulture
GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/d29491c0We look forward to seeing you - thanks!
Robert Kelleman
rkelleman@yahoo.com
202-821-6325 (text only)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkelleman/ - Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture - Kimbell Art Museum Exhibit OpeningKimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture - Kimbell Art Museum Exhibit Opening
Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia CollectionThe Torlonia Foundation is the world’s most important private collection of ancient Roman sculpture. Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection will bring the greatest of these works to the United States for the first time, including superb portrait busts, large-scale figures of gods and goddesses, magnificent sarcophagi, and other relief carvings.
The “collection of collections”—encompassing three centuries of antiquities heritage and comprising over six hundred works—was once displayed at the Torlonia Museum in Rome. The museum closed at the onset of World War II, leaving these masterpieces largely unseen by the public until 2020.
The North American presentation will feature 58 highlights from the Torlonia Collection, including 24 newly restored works that have not been on view in nearly a century. Both intimate and monumental, the sculptures range in date from approximately the 5th century BC to the 2nd century AD, with the majority of the works dating to the High Imperial period of the 1st to 2nd centuries AD, the height of ancient Roman artistic innovation.
The works of the Torlonia Collection have been carefully studied and preserved by the Torlonia Foundation thanks to the support of Bvlgari in the Laboratori Torlonia. The Torlonia Foundation articulated program is made possible by the support of Chiomenti.
Co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Torlonia Foundation, in collaboration with the Kimbell Art Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and The Museum Box, Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection offers an unprecedented opportunity for American audiences to experience one of the most significant collections of ancient Roman sculpture ever assembled.Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture - Kimbell Art Museum Exhibit Opening
September 14, 2025 – January 25, 2026
Piano PavilionAdditional details when we get closer to the event date.
Event Details & Tickets:
https://kimbellart.org/myth-and-marbleThanks!
