Inside the Art Collection: What Makes HALL Arts Residences One of the Most Distinctive Addresses in Dallas

A Collection Curated, Not Decorated

Most residential towers hang art. HALL Arts Residences built a collection. The distinction matters: the works throughout the building were selected by Virginia Shore, the Washington, D.C.-based curator who spent years as chief curator of the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program before turning her attention to the Hall Group’s properties in the Dallas Arts District. “Works [of art] are intended to inspire the viewer; they are subtly provocative and compelling,” Shore has said of her approach. That sensibility runs through both HALL Arts Hotel next door and the residential tower above it, which is why the art inside HALL Arts Residences reads less like amenity-level styling and more like a collection someone spent real time building.

What’s Actually on the Walls

The collection spans media rather than sticking to one register of “safe” luxury art. There’s a sculptural presence from Richard Long, fiber work from Sheila Hicks, and Rob Wynne’s mirrored glass piece Blue Green Splash. Tom Orr’s Waterfall series brings a quieter, more architectural sensibility, while Simon Waranch’s blown-glass bottles and studies add texture that’s meant to be looked at closely, not glanced past. Photography appears too, including Parish Kohanim’s Stripes Study series and David Benjamin Sherry’s Big Bend, alongside work from Linling Lu, Rebecca Clark, Hugo McCloud, and Pard Morrison — the same artist whose Warp and Weft appears in the hotel collection next door, a small thread connecting the two buildings’ visual language.

Where the Collection Lives

The art isn’t confined to a single statement piece near the elevators. It’s woven into the spaces residents actually use — the double-height, art-filled lobby with its custom furnishings and curated seating areas, and the wine room, where the same curatorial eye extends to a space built for private dinners around its 27-foot table. The effect is a building that feels considered from the moment the front door opens, not just in the units themselves but in the in-between spaces that, in most residential towers, get the least design attention.

A Collection in Conversation With Its Neighborhood

None of this happens in a vacuum. HALL Arts Residences sits inside the Dallas Arts District, blocks from the Dallas Museum of Art and directly across from the Nasher Sculpture Center, with the HALL Texas Sculpture Walk running along the streets just outside. Residents who spend a Saturday morning at the Nasher or an evening at the Winspear come home to a building that was curated with a similar level of intention. That kind of continuity, from the museum wall to the living room, is rare in any city – see the full collection here.

Living With the Collection

That continuity is really the point. A lobby full of art is a nice amenity; a curated collection overseen by someone who spent a career placing work in U.S. embassies is a different proposition entirely, and it’s the kind of detail that separates HALL Arts Residences from other addresses in the district. With only a handful of homes remaining across the Masterpiece Collection and the building’s three penthouses, seeing the collection in person is still the best way to understand it. Schedule a private tour here.