Art and Real Estate

The Dallas Museum of Art Wants You to Go Home With Their New Exhibit

By Joshua Baethge / April 9, 2021 /

The Dallas Museum of Art is taking a unique look at the places we live through contemporary art. “For a Dreamer of Houses” features 54 works inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 book “The Poetics of Space.” Many of the pieces come from the museum’s permanent collection. Among the highlights are major recent acquisitions of works…

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The Fine Art of Optimizing Home Value

By Elaine Raffel / July 26, 2020 /

How important is the artwork when it comes to selling a house? Just ask Briggs Freeman Realtor Janelle Alcantera. Her ultra-modern Paul Merrill-designed listing sold immediately after she replaced the home’s staged art with original abstracts by local artist Julie Shunick Brown.

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Rarely Produced Abyssinia Graces Majestic Theatre Stage in Celebration of Black History Month

By Heather Hunter / February 4, 2020 /

This February 14-16, celebrate Abyssinia and activists like Juanita J. Craft who made its run at the Majestic Theatre possible.

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Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina: Balconies Befitting Eva Perón

By Bethany Erickson / September 15, 2019 /
Eva Peron

Whether you’re only familiar with the Madonna-starred movie version, or you’ve actually caught the bonafide Broadway production, pretty much anyone is familiar with the iconic scene where Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and First Lady of Argentina, takes to the balcony to belt out “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina.” It’s one of the more…

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If You’re Going to Have a Siglo de Oro Story, You Need A Home to Match

By Bethany Erickson / June 8, 2019 /

If you’re going to have a Siglo de Oro (or Spanish Golden Age) story like the one in “Man of La Mancha,” you need a suitable backdrop. That’s just fact. So when Lyric Stage told us that they’d be staging the musical, which tells the classic canon of Don Quixote, we knew we should find…

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