For years, I resisted the pull of Big D. I was shored up in Little D, with a constant chorus of people who told me that Dallas "had no soul." There was no art or culture in Dallas, they said. No Flying Tomato, no subculture worth noting, no music scene that didn't pull heavily from Denton. But I came anyway, not expecting to find any sort of cultural utopia but grateful to have museums and galleries within blocks of my new home. Then something happened -- the Dallas art community got it together. They brought together neighborhoods and artists and mediums, and the scene here today downright thrives. In the space of a decade, people went from driving to Denton for all their fancy art collective gatherings to coming to Dallas for the massive Art Conspiracy; for shows at galleries in Deep Ellum and Oak Cliff; and... More >>>