Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, has designed the Williamstown Art Conservation Center in the Berkshires, Massachusetts. The Wall Street Journal approves.

Aston Martin of Dallas  and  Park Place Motors (l to r), both on Lemmon Avenue

KERA radio story:

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Expanded online story:

It’s the Avenue of Aspiration.
Along Lemmon Avenue between the Tollway and Northwest Highway, there are nearly a dozen high-priced car dealerships: Porsche, Cadillac, Lexus, Mercedes, Bentley, Maserati, Hummer. Of [...]

Lee Cullum interviews Bill Lively, CEO and Founding President of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Lively has led the campaign to raise more than $300 million to build the facility. At Art&Seek, we’re happy to bring you the full program, which first aired Monday night on KERA Television:

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Although the red glass that will cover much of the Winspear Opera House will be one of its most distinguishing features, both the Winspear and the Wyly Theatre break with Dallas’ tradition by prominently using clear glass on their exteriors — not mirrored or tinted or smoked glass. But performance halls wrap their arts in darkness. What will they do with all that murderous Texas sunlight?

On final approach to D/FW Airport, it becomes painfully obvious: We are in Sprawl Central. As you fly over rooftop after rooftop of big-box stores, low-slung industrial and corporate complexes and endless housing subdivisions, it starts to boggle the mind how much land we’ve covered in concrete – yet much of it is [...]