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Everything is bigger in Texas: the roads, the suburbs, the T-bone steaks, the ten-gallon hats, and certainly the sky.

Staff photo by Cecil Anderson Water that was blown in by a morning rain sits inside the skeleton structure of the new Texarkana Truck Center in Nash, Texas, just off the Interstate 30 exit at Lonestar Crossing.

Today the Nasher reveals the first of ten pieces of public art being commissioned for Nasher Xchange, the sculpture center's city-wide arts initiative.

While the Nasher Sculpture Center and Museum Tower were battling it out Wednesday, other groups in the Arts District were reaching an agreement.

In their monthly meeting Thursday morning, trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension said they are still awaiting a response from Nasher Sculpture Center officials on a proposed fix to the glare problem that has led to a more than year-long battle between officials at the 42-story building and the nearby museum.

Trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, which owns Museum Tower, were told at their regular monthly meeting today that there is only one solution to the reflected glare issue plaguing the nearby Nasher Sculpture Center and that involves re-orienting the light receptors on the Nasher roof.

Walking through the installation room of Wunder-Block , a new exhibition by Katharina Grosse, is an instant lesson in size perception.

The ambitious Nasher XChange program, which will place 10 outdoor sculptures in areas all over Dallas, some in under-served neighborhoods, has its first receipient: The Trinity River Audubon Center will be the first site to receive one of 10 sculptures in what Nasher officials say is a $3 million program.

Over the past decade, Dallas philanthropists have carried out a Texas-size effort to reinvent their city as a contemporary art and architecture capital.

While Tending, is no more, the great James Turrell makes his presence felt in Los Angeles and other art destinations It used to be one of the best things at the Nasher Sculpture Center, the quiet oasis in the outdoor garden known as Tending, . It offered an unobstructed view of the sky, and then and then well, you know, that building next door came ... (more)

In 1967, when two astrophysicists picked up regularly recurring radio signals from the heavens, they didn't really think the signals were coming from little green men in outer space.

If there's one thing you could use to convince an out-of-towner that Dallas is a city worth visiting, the first-class city its leaders want so badly for it to be, it would likely be the Arts District.

Occasional correspondent Bill Marvel, who defends the high holiness of art, sent me the following headline this morning, "DIA's art collection could face sell-off to satisfy Detroit's creditors," along with a personal note: "I know this will warm your heart." The DIA is the Detroit Institute of Art, their big museum up there.

Reflections of downtown buildings loom large over a mannequin in a display window of the Main Street clothing store Traffic Los Angeles.

When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things.