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What a 'Lost' 1967 Film Can Teach Us About How To Build Dallas' Future

Yesterday evening the Dallas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects screened a lost film about Dallas entitled The Walls Are Rising. Originally produced in 1967 by the AIA, the film attempts to diagnose the city's urban ills and suggests ...

Rescuing Mid-Century Modern

We call it a “Mid-Modern rescue,” says Lisa Tudor of the 1958 East Lakeshore subdivision home she renovated with her husband, Michael Sichel. “It was decaying with holes in the roof,” she recalls. In fact, the house, which flooded following the levee ...

How UTD is Creating a Top-Tier Art Institute

In the early 1950s, Eugene McDermott, Cecil Howard Green, and J. Erik Jonsson's newly formed Texas Instruments was expanding rapidly. In their attempts to manage this growth, they became aware of a shortcoming of the booming Southwestern city that ...

'The Forever Now' Is MoMA's Market Moment

"The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World" at the Museum of Modern Art arrives, curated by Laura Hoptman, at a moment when painting is in an astonishingly conflicted but promising abysm of wakefulness. A group show about . (Josh ...

Academy Awards recap: Idina Menzel forgives John Travolta, Lady Gaga sings ...

9:50 p.m.: We're not sure what, but something happened while Terrence Howard was introducing three of the nominated best pictures. “Our next film is amazing,” Howard said, sighing and looking uncomfortable. “I'm blown away right now myself,” he added, ...

SEEN in the Studio: Lawrence Weiner

Right on the wall is something the Museum of Modern Art found.” He pointed to a black-and-white photo at the upper right. “That's a picture of my first one-person show in New York City, on 56th Street at the Seth Siegelaub Contemporary Art Gallery. I ...

Cool Home: Phoenix high-rise condo gets makeover

He reconfigured the two-bedroom, two-bath unit into a one-bedroom, 1.5-bath condo with an urban-loft feel that starts at the large, modern pivoting front door. "I scraped this literally to the concrete box," he On the three-quarter wall, Lyon ...