Nasher Sculpture Center

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The Nasher and Museum Tower Should Just Take This Fight to Court Where it Belongs

Sometime, just as a study of American photo journalism in print media today, go to the web site of the Dallas Morning News and take a good gander at the pictures they have published recently of anybody having anything at all to do with the Nasher Sculpture Center, and compare them to photos of anybo ... More >>

Museum Tower's Latest Salvo in Battle with Nasher Features Danny Glover and Is Pretty Bizarre

It's safe to say that Museum Tower is losing its public relations battle against the Nasher Sculpture Center. The Nasher has marshaled support from the city's business and civic elite, successfully casting its neighbor as some hyper-phallic monstrosity bent on scorching anything in its path, while M ... More >>

The Museum Tower-Nasher Debacle is Getting Uglier By the Minute [Updated]

The Morning News has obtained an email from Dallas attorney Tom Luce, in which he tenders his resignation as the facilitator in the endless dispute between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System. The email, sent to pension system administrator Richard Tettamant, ... More >>

In Tower Fight, D Magazine Editor Tim Rogers Fails to Disclose His Wife's Employer Did Work for Nasher Center

Once again, D Magazine Editor Tim Rogers demonstrates that he struggles with severe intellectual and ethical challenges. Or something. In mid-April D Magazine published a cover story called "Towering Inferno," written by Rogers, about claims by the Nasher Sculpture Center downtown that it is being ... More >>

Dallas Police & Fire Pension Fund Decides Maybe Not Quite So Much of Their Money Should Be in Real Estate

At the ungodly hour of 8:30 a.m. today, the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System board of trustees held their monthly meeting. We decided to join them, both due to our love of waking up in what was basically the middle of the night to sit in a conference room, and because of the presence of one tanta ... More >>

Ain't No Call fer Us to Pick a Side in Them Rich Folks' Museum Feudin'

Update/Correction/Apology/Literary Forehead Slap: The premise of this column is a stupid mistake on my part. For some time I have labored under the impression that Lucy Crow Billingsley, a daughter of Trammell Crow, was an early partner with John Sughrue in the development of Museum Tower. That's wr ... More >>

Soundsuits Must Be Seen To Be Heard

City to Spread Gospel of Complete Streets Far and Wide, With Workshops and Pilot Projects

​The poster at right is for what could be the best Better Block event yet, scheduled to take place in and around the parking lot of R.L.'s Blues Palace No. 2 in the shadow of Fair Park -- an institution. Jason Roberts, QB for Team Better Block, says there are several choirs lined up to perform -- ... More >>

Lighten Up

Cave Opens Up

Wolfgang Puck Continues Downtown Catering Siege: Another Reason We Need Food Trucks

​Wolfgang Puck strikes again in downtown Dallas, announcing a catering deal with the upcoming Museum of Nature and Science. A lengthy press release details plans for two dining concepts that in tandem "will accommodate almost every budget and need." The museum isn't scheduled to open until 201 ... More >>

Do A 180 And Head To 360

Savor Dallas Rolls Into Town This Weekend

Sara KerensSavor Dallas 2010​If you've had the kids home this week during spring break, it's time to reward yourself with a little adult time, and by that we mean a few glasses of wine -- or more. You'll have all weekend to get your drink on at Savor Dallas, and here's a taste of what you'll ... More >>

This Season, Themed Mayoral Debates

Sam MertenNatinsky, Rawlings and Kunkle at their first "forum" way back on February 25​In the last 24 hours, press releases have piled up in the in-box announcing three very different mayoral debates featuring ex-Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, current city council member Ron Natinsky and former ... More >>

Modern Love

Make Room In Your Brain -- Not Your Wallet -- For (Free) Museum Day on September 25

Blog Cabin Village​I used to have a blast as a kid going to the Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth. Dad and I would load up in his lumbering, early '90s model Chevy "Suburbasaurus" and head out to Fort Worth for a woodsy day of living history. Of course, my fascination with the place mainly centered ... More >>

LEGO My Dallas Cityscape

Photos by Harry WilonskyThe American Airlines Center and Victory Park​I did indeed let the boy loose with our in-need-of-replacing Canon PowerShot in the Dallas Cityscapes exhibit at NorthPark Center Saturday. We walked right past it at first -- it's tucked away inside the old Robb & Stucky ne ... More >>

Sixth Floor Museum Opening a Cafe. Let Fly With the Tasteless Jokes, Everyone.

Sixth Floor Museum will now feature a cafe.​In a bid to reshape Dallas residents' image of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, the museum's promoting itself as a hip new spot to shop and nosh. The Museum Store Café, opening July 1, will stock gift items made by local artists and serve coff ... More >>

Have You Heard: Dallas Int'l Film Fest Announces Shining Star, Panel Lineups

Amber Heard​In an awfully short amount of time, Austin-born-and-raised Amber Heard has racked up a rather impressive filmography that spans Friday Night Lights to Alpha Dog to the stuck-in-distribution-hell All the Boys Love Mandy Lane to Pineapple Express to Zombieland to the forthcoming Hunter ... More >>

Nomensculpture

If They Build It...

Saturday in the Arts

Big Green

Revolutionary Reel

Twinkle Toes Tharp

Graduation Day

A F.I.G. Leaf: A Recap of AFI Dallas's Saturday, and a Look Ahead at Its Sunday

Chris DreilingHell of a time not to have Patrick Michels around -- 'round midnight this morning at the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue, where nude and semi-nude women turned a life drawing workshop into a performance-art piece amidst other computer animation exhibits, open bars and a laptop ... More >>

Strick Time: Nasher Sculpture Center Picks Controversial New Director From L.A.

The Nasher Sculpture Center made it official this morning: Its new director is Jeremy Strick, who, for the last nine years, has held the same title at the Museum of Contemporary Art In Los Angeles. But this Christmas Eve announcement concerning his resignation from MOCA explains why some will cheer ... More >>

This Katy Trail Arts Loop Sounds Interesting. But That's a Lot of Green.

Looks like the meeting at the Nasher Sculpture Center was last week, but the Friends of the Katy Trail only today posted the sneak peek at the proposed Katy Trail Arts Loop, which is just what it sounds like:This connection improves the bicycle and pedestrian facilities between the Katy Trail and Do ... More >>

Legendary Larry

McMurtry and Ossana speak to the Nasher

Mr. Minimal

Goddess Olympia

Dukakis lectures for NasherSalon

It's Better Than Meeting Michael Dukakis, That's For Sure

The Lachaise Lounge

Mingle with curvy babes at the Nasher

Dr Pepper's Ahead of the Advergame!

Hot Time, Art Scene in the City

Vh1 is Accidentally Honoring Raymond Nasher Tonight, Sort Of. Kind Of.

For a New Fest, AFI Has Plenty of Old-School Charm

Forget Friday

Check out hip-hop, indie rock and superstar secret shows--all before Hump Day.

Clueless in the City

Variety Show

Piano Playa

Welcome to Hell, Suckers

Get Out

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Arty Party

There will be dancing in the streets downtown all weekend

Exposed

Snap of the imagination

A Garden Grows

The Nashers open their land of "ah"s