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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a John Wayne museum in the Fort Worth Stockyards. I didn’t either until just recently. The John Wayne: An American Experience exhibit opened quietly last December in the Stockyards as part of the much ballyhooed …
Read MoreLegendary patron, museum maker and larger-than-life ranch-and-oil heiress Anne Marion’s bold art collection went on the block this week at Sotheby’s New York. Valued around $150 million for its 18 stellar lots, the auction results surpassed that …
Read MoreThe new exhibition at NorthPark Center, “Fashion in Residence,” presented by UNT’s Texas Fashion Collection, was inspired by hostess dressing dating back to Prohibition in the 1920, when clandestine cocktails could only be sipped in one’s personal salo…
Read MoreAn icon of art history and feminism, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) transcends the narrow label of painter to enthrall and inspire fresh generations more than 60 years after her death in Mexico City from injuries suffered in a bus accident decades earlier. In…
Read MorePhotographer and Dallas-native Gray Malin is known for his dreamy photo collections of remote locations and incredible aerial images. Just last year (weeks before the pandemic), he debuted his first self-portrait at Mi Cocina’s Monkey Bar, paying…
Read MoreLike most of us, our favorite mistress of the turntables, DJ Lucy Wrubel, had a tumultuous 2020. Her usual back-to-back bookings vanished when the order came to shelter in place. She was no longer hopping a flight to Cabo to spin tracks at a wedding or…
Read MoreOver the years, Dallas-based sculpture artist Dan Lam has caught the attention (and pocketbooks) of celebrities like pop star Miley Cyrus and supermodel Lily Aldridge with her touchable, colorful, and awe-inspiring pieces. Her “Drips,” R…
Read MoreThere’s nothing like wrapping yourself in a crocheted or handwoven textile, seeing the ridge marks of evenly spaced fingers on clay that has been delicately turned into a useful ceramic piece, or basking in the mystical properties of Native Ameri…
Read More“On Contested Terrain” is the first comprehensive museum survey for Vietnamese-American artist An-My Lê. Organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, the exhibition travels to Texas, where it’s overseen by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art…
Read More“Intangible, A Fiber Fairytale” is a colorful, fiber-filled getaway to explore at the immersive Dallas art experience known as Sweet Tooth Hotel. Before the pandemic, visitors were encouraged to interact with the art. Now, sadly, viewers ma…
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