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Seventy years ago, Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) came up with his greatest hit for Knoll Furniture while tinkering out of a former garage turned workshop in the hamlet of Bally, eastern Pennsylvania. The diamond chair and eponymous Bertoia collection that …
Read MoreThe Sid Richardson Museum opened in 1982 in Fort Worth’s Sundance Square. Richardson, the oilman who struck black gold in the 1930s, became a local legend and philanthropist — and began acquiring Western art. Especially oils and bronzes. The museum ser…
Read MoreMore than 100 years after his death, Vincent van Gogh (1853- 1890) continues to enthrall the public, with name recognition and a global following exceeding even Warhol — a renown strangely at odds with the Dutch painter’s challenging road as an artist …
Read MoreFrom an Academy Award-winning virtual reality experience to new sculpture projects around town, these are the must-see art exhibits in Dallas this winter. CARNE y ARENA Opening at Fair Park’s Food & Fiber Pavilion on January 21, Academy Award…
Read MoreIt looks as though Father Christmas (or Pere Noel) came early this year to deliver something very special to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. We’re talking about traveling across vast swaths of time and space to bring the MFAH a sleigh full of m…
Read MoreThe Orange Show Center for Visionary Art celebrates its fourth decade with the official reveal, made Thursday, of its forthcoming Houston expansion. An eight-acre campus — inclusive of the current site and that of a former industrial palette warehouse …
Read MoreThe Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is falling for the works of two special artists ― Milton Avery and Frances Stark. Both exhibitions debut this month. The Milton Avery exhibition is already open and on view through January 30. The Frances Stark show …
Read MoreFrom grand sculptural works to the exploration of some meticulously intricate designs, carve out some time on your calendar to visit these must-see Dallas art exhibits this November. Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures Nasher Sculpture Center Opened this we…
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to turn back the clock? How about by two centuries? That is the view you’ll get of the world as renowned British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775 to 1851) pulls back the curtain — and pulls no punches ― to display the times he lived in….
Read MoreThe Menil Collection’s exhibition of early works from the 1960s by groundbreaking feminist artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930 to 2002) could hardly be more timely. “Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose” — “the more things change, the more they…
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