The other day I heard a montage of sound bites on NPR of the recent uprisings in the Middle East. The momentary inundation of frantic sounds from Libya, Syria, Egypt and all those…
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Independent curator June Mattingly has put together a show at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary called Starry, Starry Nights: Five Light-Filled Installations with work by five artists — Adela Andea, Chris Lattanzio,…
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Child with Mother, White marble, 1972 (BH 544), Hepworth Estate Yesterday at the Glasstire panel discussion on regionalism at the Modern in Fort Worth, Art Guy Michael Galbreth repeated over…
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Wife: So? How was it? Terrifying? Husband: No, it was amazing! Totally different than I expected. I got completely lost in there and had to feel my way out . Wife: Holy crap,…
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Sterling Allen’s show up at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, called Housing Edition, is a twenty-first century lesson in the old adage “You are what you eat.” Given the sure fact…
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In an effort to engage other parts of town during the Dallas Art Fair in a couple weeks, some clever folks — Art Fair head honcho, Chris Byrne, and artist and…
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Any mom that’s ever schlepped her kids to a playdate could testify to the perennial conversation fodder that is the Birth Story. Tales of hours of pain, drugs, no drugs,…
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Jeez, I was excited when I heard that the DMA was putting out some of its modern furniture holdings from its collection in a show called Form/Unformed, because I am…
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I had a group of girl friends in college who did all sorts of hare-brained and utterly hilarious pranks on our conservative campus: throwing studded, glitzy thongs in the trees,…
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As a kid, my sisters and I dubbed the malaise that comes on gloomy, somber Sundays a “Sunday Feeling.” It’s an awful feeling, brought on then by the threat of…
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There are number of shows up in the Design District that feature small, very affordable sculpture. I wondered at first about a nascent trend. Then of course I realized that…