The Dallas Museum of Art is spending the summer on spring break. A new exhibition of 66 works inspired by the seashore, "Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea," is on display through Aug. 22. The paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints and photographs from 1850 to the present are in the DMA's permanent collection or are works that have been promised to the museum from local collectors. Heather MacDonald, associate curator of European art at the DMA, organized the show into a five-gallery presentation of unnecessary and often tortured themes chosen, one suspects, to include disparate works that only suggest an oceanic common denominator.

For more information, visit the website for Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea.