We’re reopening the Center for Creative Connections (C3) with a resounding bang—a celebration of sound and pattern! Rhythms on Repeat brings together over 50 works from the DMA’s collection that illustrate the many ways that rhythms—both audible and visual—can manifest in art. The works on view span centuries and continents, range in scale from minuscule to massive, and use a wide variety of media, from paintings by Pablo Picasso and Romare Bearden to ceramic vessels by Viktor Schreckengost and Roberto Lugo, and even instruments like a Mangbetu horn. Exciting new gallery interactives encourage visitors to create their own patterns and explore sound inspired by artwork on view.
Rhythms on Repeat is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art. Presenting support for the Center for Creative Connections is provided by PNC Bank. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by generous DMA Members and donors, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.
Images: Soul Three, 1968. Romare Bearden. Paper and fabric on collage board. Dallas Museum of Art, General Acquisitions Fund and Roberta Coke Camp Fund, 2004.11. © 2026 Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, New York; Jar with black figures on a white neck, late 20th century. Diane Lewis. Ceramic. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert I. Kramer, 2014.43.6. © Diane Lewis; Rock-Rock, 1966. Richard Lindner. Oil on canvas. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Clark, 1968.14. © 2026 Richard Lindner / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; Dish with Repeat Floral Pattern, 1500–1525. Persian. Stonepaste; painted in blacik under a turquoise glaze, incised (Kubachi ware). The Keir Collection of Islamic Art on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art, K.1.2014.849; Horn, 19th–20th century. Mangbetu peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ivory, lizard skin, and cord. Dallas Museum of Art, The Clark and Frances Stillman Collection of Congo Sculpture, gift of Eugene and Margaret McDermott, 1969.S.157; Nocturne radio (Model 1186), designed c. 1935. Walter Dorwin Teague. Blue mirrored glass, wood body, and chrome-plated and lacquered metail trim. Dallas Museum of Art, The Patsy Lacy Griffith Collection, gift of Patsy Lacy Griffith by exchange, 2004.1.A-C; Quilt, 1893. Herndon Whitworth Phineta. Velvet and silk. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Irvine, 1988.68.