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High on the Hilltop

SMU's Meadows becomes an honest-to-God art museum

By Christine Biederman
Jul 22, 2004

The two summer shows at the Meadows Museum, The Triumph of French Painting and 20th Century Texas and Spanish Prints, provide the perfect excuse to visit the question: What gives on the Hilltop? When last we visited the Meadows' edifice on Bishop Avenue, things were looking kind of grim. For...
Out of Rehab

Nasher Center resurrects the works of Medardo Rosso

By Christine Biederman
May 27, 2004

I once heard a theory that there are really only two dozen or so stock narratives, all contained in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. For example: Adventurers/thieves find treasure, then kill one another while each tries to grab the gelt for himself ("The Pardoner's Tale" and, more recently, The Treasure of the...
The Man and the Monument

The Nasher Sculpture Center is full of revelations about a man and his art

By Christine Biederman
Oct 30, 2003

Philanthropist, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. --Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Ray Nasher isn't a man given to grinning. At 82, he is a diminutive man, stern of countenance and bald of pate, with...
Gotta Have It

Three revealing books plumb the collector's urge

By Christine Biederman
Sep 18, 2003

Ah, fall. The season of gallery walks, museum shows, dealer openings and party pics. Of hype and anxious activity, all aimed at luring that rare but highly prized specimen, Homo sapiens collectoricus. This season, especially, the quarry is as interesting as most of the bait. Over the past decade, art...
Death Visits the Kimbell

The Quest keeps the cash registers ringing

By Christine Biederman
Jul 31, 2003

Lest you doubt that the 3-year-old recession lives on, consider the latest evidence for life after death: the Kimbell Art Museum's new show, The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. Coming some 18 months after our government declared the recession of '01 deceased, the Kimbell's exhibition is the gloomiest...

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