Arts & Entertainment

The agency estimates that for every dollar it gives an organization, that group is able to raise up to an additional $9.

“It’s going to be transformative for the Mexican people, and for people who are not Mexican, to understand how you take national pride and how you can see that created through art.”

I pictured his dramatic story as a movie that would demonstrate this: no matter how low in life a person gets, God will help if He is asked.

“Writing and all that is great. But performing, that’s where all the feeling and everything comes into play.”

If Dallas had funded the arts through a hotel tax, it is likely the city wouldn’t be facing millions in deferred maintenance.

With simple prose, Lewis creates a throwback heroine, dressed in white gloves and a pearl choker, who isn’t afraid to kick off her pumps to run down the field in her stockinged feet.

The very contradictions and conflict that define the architect’s character have somehow also come to define American cities of the 20th century, especially Dallas.

He was a modernism evangelist who preached new ways of building and new ways of thinking about architecture and cities.

There is plenty of architecture in Dallas that does a disservice to the city, and a number of those works were designed by Johnson.

We know the devastating effects of crack cocaine are what produced the conditions that gave us gangster rap as a poetry of the darkness of the crack epidemic.

“Dallas is a really easy place to do business,” Hollman says. “Success is celebrated here.”

The Nasher Prize is set up not only to offer validation to the artists it honors, but to weigh in on the very definition of contemporary sculpture.