Video about Miro Rivera Architects from Austin PBS station KLRU
The Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Restroom by Austin's Miro Rivera Architects has been put on the shortlist for the first-ever World Architecture Festival's award in the energy and recycling category. It joins 223 other buldings from 43 countries — a list that includes two [...]

Rodeo Plaza in Fort Worth is being revamped to make the area more friendly to pedestrians. Improvements include pieces by Lubbock artist Steve Teeters – giant spurs and cowboy belts that double as bench seating along the sidewalks. (Steve also did the Buddy Holly glasses on display outside the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock.)
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Gerald Murphy with Pablo Picasso on the Riviera
Listen to Krys Boyd interview Amanda Vail, author of Everybody Was So Young, the biography of Gerald and Sara Murphy, the couple at the heart of the current DMA exhibition, Making It New. F. Scott Fitzgerald told their story in his novel, Tender Is the Night. Philip [...]

DISD board of trustees member Ron Price on school bands as a measure of lackluster arts education:

Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm on the political and economic benefits of better arts education:

Superintendent Ron Price on the need for after-school arts programs in South Dallas:

Gigi Antoni, president of Big Thought, on the name change to Thriving Minds:

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A scene from Brokeback Mountain
Today on Think, Krys Boyd interviewed author-screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana about their writing and the art of the screenplay. The two are perhaps best known for their Oscar-winning adaptation of Annie Proulx' short story, "Brokeback Mountain." But they have also collaborated on the TV programs that have come from [...]

YouDo (detail), Kara Walker, cut paper, 1993-94
Artist Kara Walker uses an old-fashioned art form – the black paper silhouette – in controversial ways to explore issues of power, politics and racism. Commentator Matthew Bourbon, a Denton artist, art critic and associate professor at The University of North Texas, has this review of a retrospective of [...]

"Paris Hilton with looks and brains and talent." That's how the Dallas Museum of Art's William Keyse Rudolph describes Sara Murphy in this entertaining interview with Krys Boyd taped today for Think. And he suggests today's celebutantes could learn a thing or three from this friend of Fitzgerald, Picasso and Hemingway. She and her [...]

One side of the Wyly Theatre, showing criss-cross concrete supports
See the Wyly webcam here
Read about the Arts District's "Glass Skins"

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Those are the last few bolts being hammered out of a giant support column at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in the Dallas Center for the Performing [...]

A monumental work of art or a terribly misplaced reminder of cruel history? Conquistador Juan de Oñate is a hero to some in El Paso who feel the Spanish contributions to settling the West is often ignored. To others, he represents oppression and violence, an attempt to obliterate Native American culture.
When sculptor John Houser began [...]

Park Place Motors

Aston Martin of Dallas
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It's the Avenue of Aspiration.
Along Lemmon Avenue between the Tollway and Northwest Highway, there are nearly a dozen high-priced car dealerships: Porsche, Cadillac, Lexus, Mercedes, Bentley, Maserati, Hummer. Of course, many American cities have showrooms like these — there's a Ferrari dealership [...]