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Klyde Warren Park’s fine lines: The real reasons to visit

In the heart of the city, KLYDE WARREN PARK is a bridge to Dallas’ future and a bold new gathering space for lovers of nature and high design. Photographer MEI-CHUN JAU zooms in on the elegant details

Helen Corbitt: More than the woman who gave Dallas poppy-seed dressing?

Long before that warbling francophile, Julia Child, forward-thinking Helen Corbitt — Texan, Dallasite, author — was dazzling ’em at the dinner table. Here’s why

Plant and pluck your own, at a new garden under the skyscrapers

Just in time for the fall harvest — and perhaps another sign that we’re all getting back to basics — is DEEP ELLUM URBAN GARDENS.

Fashion bookworms, rejoice

In a salute to the masterful craftsmanship for which it has become known, Italian fashion house BOTTEGA VENETA has teamed with Rizzoli to publish its first namesake book.

10 artful totes, on the block at Two x Two for AIDS and Art

When Two x Two for AIDS and Art descends upon The Rachofsky House this week for its annual weekend benefiting amfAR and the Dallas Museum of Art (last year’s extravaganza broke $4 million), 10 atypical totes will fetch not only fashion envy but likely wildly high bids.

Art scholar Michael Corris has some thoughts about the new Oliver Francis Gallery

Art scholar MICHAEL CORRIS — professor and chair of the Division of Art at SMU — pens a letter, man to man, to Kevin Rubén Jacobs, director of the new Oliver Francis Gallery.

James Bond blows out 50 candles

50 years of saving the world (in style): The man deserves some hoopla

The new New Mexico

In-the-know Dallasites have gone there forever — but even they will be surprised at what’s happening now. From Santa Fe and Albuquerque to a surprisingly bustling Las Cruces, clear your calendar and pack your bags.

Jean Lacy: The most important Dallas artist you’ve never heard of

In a nondescript ranch house in Dallas, one of America’s most important artists goes her own way.

How midcentury mosaics were saved, weeks from the wrecking ball

In a bold (and costly) stroke of preservation, oil tycoon and hotelier Tim Headington — backed by an unlikely team of architects and politicians, and one spirited art conservator — rescues some of the country’s most impressive large-scale tile works.

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