Lettuce Wrap Up: The Fried Goods and Austin’s Food Trucks

Stephen MaskerSome churros and…something close to vegetables?​It would’ve been embarrassing if the week’s blogs hadn’t been All Fried, All the Time. Luckily, they spared themselves the shame and stepped up to the plate, almost every one giving their own take on State Fair food. Your Own Dallas Observer – Hanna…

The Modern World

Saturday brings the opening of the Amon Carter Museum’s new exhibition, American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, a display of photographs by–who else?–photographers Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White. Presented as case studies of documentary photography during the Great Depression, their photographs spur discussion of three important factors of the…

Right About Now

Typically, we’ll hear about a woman on an inner voyage to discover her identity in a new land and file it somewhere on the scale between tired feminism and an indulgent cliche. But the Valley House Gallery insists that it’s art–and inspiring, opportunistic art at that. Israeli-born artist Hadar Sobol’s…