Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy

This small exhibition in Dallas offers “a strange but fascinating look at a strange moment in time.”

Dallas Museum of Art

Through Sept. 15

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You might even feel as if you’ve been hit by “a grenade of grief,” said Christina Rees in Glasstire.com. Viewers are greeted by floor-to-ceiling photos of Jack and Jackie being thronged by Fort Worth and Dallas well-wishers. Nearby, there’s also “a really touching photo” of young philanthropist Ruth Carter Johnson and a friend cheekily strapping a seatbelt onto a bronze Picasso statue known as Angry Owl. Suddenly you’re aware that Dallas wasn’t a city of hate on Nov. 22, 1963: “The sense of everyone pitching in for such an event (and that people were so unjaded as to think of a president’s visit as special) is heartbreaking.” The artworks’ modest scale strengthens that effect. You feel as if you’ve tiptoed back into a special morning. “It’s easy to get close to the pieces and linger. It’s easy to feel quite sad.”