A big step up for art in Dallas

The Dallas Museum of Art will receive donations worth as much as $400 million, including three extensive art collections, a house designed by architect Richard Meier and a Monet painting valued at $25 million.

The donations announced this week are the largest combined gift in the museum’s history.

“This ultimately transforms the institution into something completely different from what it has been,” said Earl A. “Rusty” Powell, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. “Dallas becomes a major geographical locale for modern art.”