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Where the ideas really flow

One of the things to love about North Texas is the extraordinarily imaginative spirit that exists in our businesses here.

This is a place where ideas take flight — fertile ground where the likes of business magnate Ross Perot, Nina Vaca of Pinnacle Group, businessman Mark Cuban and Amber Venz Box of RewardStyle are encouraged to spread their wings and fly, often in the face of doubters and [...]

When disruption doesn't work

Business disruptors rule — or so we’ve been told. And while disruption can pose threats, it can also provide opportunities. We all know the stories of upstarts such as Lyft, Airbnb, Houzz and Bitcoin. Transportation, hospitality, retail, currency and more: There are disruptors operating in nearly every sector. But just because there is
calculated chaos in any given arena
doesn’t mean the upstart is destined
for success. Legacy organizations have outwitted disruptive rivals [...]

How one artist is transforming a city's forgotten buildings

There are reasons that the private spaces of the 2018 Nasher Prize winner work their way into his compelling art. (And vice versa.) Jeremy Strick, the director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, reports from inside a singular, spellbinding world.

Principal photographs by Nan Coulter

[caption id="attachment_56663" align="aligncenter" width="460"] Theaster Gates in a pottery room in his studio in Chicago. In his work, he incorporates sculpture, ceramics, performance, music and [...]

What your furniture is saying about you

They’re not ‘just things,’ as some will try and tell you. Your home furnishings telegraph all kinds of messages and meanings — and not just to those who come to visit. The journalist LEE CULLUM does some translating. “Things contain people.” So said Dallas-born novelist Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey. They also contain ideas, memories, places. For Hailey, it was all of those when she furnished The English Room at her house in Los Angeles. In it, she put pieces that she and her [...]

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