Meadows Museum

At SMU, Commemorating the 9/11 Anniversary With Prayers, Speeches and a Double Fist Pump

Photos by Anna Merlan​"Thought-provoking events" -- that's how SMU said it wanted to honor the 10th anniversary of September 11, with a series of "thought-provoking events." There would be lectures, speeches, prayer services and, tonight, a half-time tribute at Gerald J. Ford during SMU-UTEP -- ev ... More >>

If You're Looking for Something Concrete...

Wilson Scores With Six

Pristine Sistine

Side By Side

Mayor Tom: Dallas and Spain Have "Long, Close Relationship" Getting "Stronger Every Day"

Pardon this blurry screengrab from one of Heinbaugh's iPhone videos. Next time I should just go with.​(Note to self: Stop. Watching. Baseball.)OK, then. Just received the latest postcard from Chris Heinbaugh, who's tagging along on Mayor Tom & Co.'s trade mission to Europe. It follows. But lon ... More >>

Under Madrid With Mayor Tom, or: How a Tunnel in Spain May Hint at Dallas's Rail Future

Chris HeinbaughA postcard from Mayor Tom and the Dallas delegation from the tunnel in which they spent part of their first day in Madrid​Funny thing: Yesterday, in the comments below, longtime Friend of Unfair Park Montemalone asked this about the Dallas delegation's trade mission to Europe: "I wo ... More >>

Some Days You Gotta Sit Through Council Meetings. Some Days You Go To France, Spain.

Last November, Mayor Tom and the missus went to Korea. This fall: Europe. I formally announce my candidacy for Dallas mayor.​I hope you don't need a face-to-face with Mayor Tom Leppert, council member Ron Natinsky, state Rep. Rafael Anchia or Karl Zavikovsky, head of the Office of Economic Develop ... More >>

If You Can't Stand The Fun...

Easement on Down the Road: Court Rules For City in Case Involving Many Bold-Faced Names

Windle Turley​Been trying to get more info from the city concerning what, exactly, this just-handed-down ruling from the Fifth District Court of Appeals of Texas means. But, in short, it appears that a lengthy legal battle concerning a small slice o' street off Inwood Road and Walnut Hill Lane has ... More >>

Hash Over: SMU Foodjects, Dollar Day at Lone Star Park, Free Appetizers at Ferrari's, and More

Meadows Museum​Who wants to celebrate Spanish culture and gastronomy during the month of July? The Meadows Museum at SMU will be presenting "Foodjects: Design and the New Cuisine in Spain" from Tuesday, July 6, to Monday, July 26. A collaboration of Spanish designers and chefs will display mo ... More >>

Wine, Lose Or Draw

Something (El) Bulli This Way Comes

Lorea Fruit basket copia​Diners have a better chance of getting into Harvard Law School than scoring a seat at El Bulli, the gastronomic temple in Spain that annually fields more than one million requests for reservations, but visitors to SMU's Meadows Museum next month can console themselves wi ... More >>

Legendary Fights For Rights

In One Day, Dallas Loses Two Cultural Figures: Kim Dawson and Ted Pillsbury

Mark GrahamTed Pillsbury in a 2006 photo taken when he went to work for Heritage Auction Gallery​Late last night word spread that Kim Dawson, the model-turned-modeling-agency brand name, died at the age of 85 after a long battle with Alzheimer's. Dawson, of course, is credited with having discover ... More >>

Robert Edsel Finds Some Nazi-Looted Art Hanging in SMU's Meadows Museum

Bartolome Esteban Murillo's Saint Justa​A Friend of Unfair Park alerts us to the news that Robert Edsel -- founder of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, which scours the globe for the millions of pieces of art stolen by Hitler and the Nazis -- found two such items on the cam ... More >>

Edsel's Now "Bewildered," "Bothered" By Meadows Museum's Response to Revelations Concerning Its Two Nazi-Looted Paintings

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's Saint Rufina, one of two pieces of artwork in the Meadows Museum stolen by the Nazis in 1941​So, I just spoke with Robert Edsel concerning those two paintings at the SMU Meadows Museum his Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art publicly identified as havi ... More >>

SMU to Show Off Its Giant Head Tonight

​We first took a long, hard look at Jaume Plensa's Sho, otherwise known as the 13-foot-tall head that weighs 600 pounds, back in August, when SMU's Meadows Museum announced its acquisition. But the sculpture rears its lovely head tonight with the official unveiling as the Meadows reopens the redes ... More >>

You Think the Recession Blows? Well, Sure. But Try Living On One Dollar a Day.

"Andrea," who received $1,500 from the Chiapas Project to become a farmer in Mexico, where she support four generations of family​Sure, our economy's grim, but consider this: In Haiti, 80 percent of the population lives under the poverty line and two-thirds lack formal jobs. Altering such circumst ... More >>

Etruscan Fun

The Meadows honors the ancient peoples

Madame Mahler

The lady is given her due

Still Waters

The Meadows hosts a desert retrospective

The Modern Age

See the growing pangs of American art

Artistic Tetris

The Meadows showcases tile

If You Need Laura Bush Saturday...

Dressed to Impress

Walk through Meadows of Balenciaga

The War on Cold

Local Russkies welcome spring

Luxury Suite

Zubar's elixirs and Erotica

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Texas Tribalism

The Barrett Collection is all about being primitive in the present

Perfect Vision

Selections from the Barrett Collection astound even the jaded

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

It's Greek to You

Pillsbury's treasure hunt

To Get Smart

Log On

Faculty boots up with new music

Fall Away

Meadows opens a somber season

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Edifice Rex

A building takes top honors in the 2002 art scene

Gilt Age

The Meadows lays a pretty polish on the history of Mexican silversmithing

Resurrecting Murillo

Before the putti got to him, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo could paint a mean scene

Canon Fodder

The DMA's Mexican folk art exhibit is all about political correctness

SMU's Little Wilde Streak

The new Meadows Museum symbolizes everything good and bad about life on the Hilltop

Blink

Overseas loan; Hardy laurels; Destructo art

Night & Day

May 20 - 26, 1999

Night & Day

April 23 - 29, 1998

Events for the week

Events for the week

Events for the week