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Over on Frontburner , a long-held complaint against writer Larry McMurtry was lodged once again, understandably so, given his NPR interview with Linda Wertheimer this morning.

This winter the Hammer Museum presents a retrospective of drawings by Rachel Whiteread, the first large-scale museum survey of work on paper by the British artist.

The British sculptor is best known for her haunting, "negative space" creations - like Ghost , the plaster cast of the inside of a Victorian room - and the Holocaust Monument in Vienna, also called the Nameless Library because it is a concrete cast of thousands of books, with their spines in, a commentary on the Nazi book burnings.

By GAILE ROBINSON Alien art has taken over the walls of the Kimbell Art Museum.The galleries are filled with paintings that look similar but don't feature the familiar faces.There is a Georges de La Tour, but its subject is a somber, reflective young woman, not the bawdy scene of a card game.There is a Rembrandt, but instead of a portrait of a ...

October 29, 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Welcome To The Pleasuredome , by Frankie Goes To Hollywood , kicking off the short rule of Frankie over reality.

Posted on November 16th, 2009 1:11pm by Glenn Hunter Filed under Arts , Business , Local News It might seem like an odd way to steer a leading cultural institution.

The Nasher Sculpture Center has announced its 2010 NasherSALON Speaker Series. The series has previously featured such artists as authors John Updike and Larry McMurtry, choreographer Twyla Tharp, chef Wolfgang Puck and singer-songwriter Art Garfunkel.

The Wyly Theatre and Winspear Opera House have burst into being, bringing with them glamour, glory and great promise of things to come.

Mathews had worked at three Dallas TV stations in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. After leaving WFAA-TV in 1993, the journalist began devoting more time to the weekly WRR-FM program Art Matters , which covers local artists and cultural groups and which he co-hosts with Sharon Benge.

If you give a kid a challenge, ... She'll ask what she has to do. Then she'll want to know what the prize is when she meets the goal.

If you've made your way to Woodall Rogers lately, there's no possibility that the large red cylinder has missed your glance.

After many years of being absent from the Dallas spotlight, DiRoNA returns to host Stars Above Texas 2009 Conference in Dallas at The Rosewood Crescent Hotel on October 25-27. The conference theme will capture the Southwest Texas spirit featuring Dallasa s favorite chef personalities: Kent Rathbun of Abacus, Jasper's, and Rathbun's Blue Plate ...

The four renowned architects behind the Winspear Opera House and the Wyly Theatre are in town this week for the opening galas and public forums discussing their designs.

The city of Dallas is gearing up this week for an event that is sure to bring national attention to this Texas town.

Share + Oct 11, 2009 5:43 pm US/Central Reporting Bud Gillett DALLAS The Winspear Opera House and the Wyly Theatre in Dallas both open their doors to the public this week in what is being called the largest urban arts district in America.

Just in time for the launch of the AT&T Performing Arts Center , we've designed and built a new site devoted entirely to Dallas' Arts District.

In the past few years, Judy Teague's family has grown by leaps and bounds. There's Trudi, 10; Blake, 9; Poncho, 8; Duchess, 8; Taco, 51 2, Gizmo, 3; Tyler, 7; and Beau, 4. All eight are dogs Teague has adopted over the years.

One of the proud boasts made for Dallas' Arts-District-plus-Victory-Park is that we will be showcasing the works of five-count-'em-five winners of architecture's Big Win, the Pritzker - a never-before-accomplished collection of trophies because all five will be within a few blocks, although this won't happen until 2013, when the fifth building, ...

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Sir Norman Foster and his architectural firm, Foster + Partners , are far better known in Europe than they are in America.