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It’s an old story, this rivalry between Dallas and Houston, but it got fresh legs Tuesday, when the Texas Commission on the Arts awarded its largest single grant – a whopping $500,000 – to the Dallas Museum of Art.

In issuing its Cultural District Project Grants, for the 2016 fiscal year (Sept. 1, 2015, to Aug. 31, 2016), the commission earmarked $500,000 “to support bringing the exhibition, ‘Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots’ for its exclusive U.S. debut to the Dallas Arts District to attract visitors.”

Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots is a sensational exhibition – grand, exhilarating and so unexpected as to make the painter’s career look altogether different. It brings together nearly half of the semi-figurative Black Paintings from the early 1950s. This would be unique enough – they haven’t been shown together since Pollock’s death, drunk at the wheel of his Oldsmobile in 1956 – but here they appear among a tremendous selection of paintings from every period, to reveal a startling continuity between the figurative and the abstract in Pollock’s career.

 In November 2015, The Dallas Museum of Art will be the only American venue to host the exhibition “Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots.” The show is the first in over three decades to explore Jackson Pollock’s Black Pourings, a series of black enamel and oil paintings created by the Abstract Expressionist artist between 1951 and 1953. Although the Black Pourings are a pivotal part of Pollock’s oeuvre, they have largely gone underexplored.

“Blind Spots” is the first major exhibition to be curated by Gavin Delahunty, who joined the Dallas Museum of Art as the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of American Art in May.