Male Bonding

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Closer, the first collection of poetry by Dallas native son Christopher Stephen Soden, embodies the adage that all good things take time. This poignant and personal volume contains work that represents what Soden unabashedly calls a “meandering” 35-year career. A protégé [...]
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The Lost City

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Dallas is not, nor has it ever been, a naturally-occurring city. Without the abundant natural resources available to other older cities, Dallas was born out of the sheer determination of its people. This forward-thinking and resourceful philosophy has been passed down from generation to [...]
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The Naked Truth

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In hailing Lucian Freud as “the Ingres of existentialism” mid-last century, the British art critic Herbert Read hit the descriptive mark with great precision. Read’s naming suggests opposites that have not so much been imperiously forced but organically birthed together. In Freud this meant a thorough punctiliousness cut with an anarchist [...]
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ARTifacts: July/August 2012

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DMA appoints first Chief Conservator The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Dallas Museum of Art a $500,000 grant in support of the newly created position of Chief Conservator, ensuring the launch of a strong conservation program at the Museum. The position [...]
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Review: David Katz, Systemic Expansion

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Spindles and webs of organic shapes span the hallway like an alien garland, interlinking peculiar bulbous nodes. Hard ceramic cages squinch and shape the interlinked tumorous forms. The bone-like lattices that festoon the hallways of the Artists Gallery at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft comprise Systemic Expansion, the latest [...]
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Arts Aid

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Houston Arts Alliance Launches the Inaugural Houston Arts Resource Fair Being a professional artist is not for the...
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Cultural Warrior: Sandra Bernhard

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Sandra Bernhard is the engine behind such ground-breaking HGOco/Houston Grand Opera programs such as Song of Houston and Home and Place. She also is the lead on numerous other projects that bring HGO into Houston’s multi-cultural communities in a way that sets the standard for [...]
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