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“Picture Pete” Still on View

“Picture Pete” Still on ViewKnown to his biker buddies as “Picture Pete,” Peter Feresten was an incomparable photographer and teacher. After his death in 2007, there was some concern over the fate of his archives: innumerable negatives, prints, and audio recordings. But now most of them have found safe harbor, divided among three institutions: the Amon Carter Museum, the central branch of the Fort Worth Library, and the Photographic Archives Lab Gallery in Dallas.
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Sharing a Constructive Spirit

Sharing a Constructive SpiritModernism is sexy. And not just because Mad Men is set during the period of the style’s apex, the early 1960s, though there’s no denying the show’s appeal. No, Mod...
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Andy Warhol in the ’80s

Andy Warhol in the ’80s There are a lot of Andy Warhols. The Campbell’s-soup-can-reproducing Andy. The tedious filmmaking Andy. The celebrity Andy. But there’s also an Andy that few casual...
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Michelangelo Glorifies Kimbell

Michelangelo Glorifies Kimbell We all know how important Michelangelo is. He painted a massive fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for, uh, Pete's sake, sculpted totally buff nudes ou...
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Lamb for Break-Fast

Lamb for Break-Fast People can debate the merits and minuses of major world religions all they want, but to Chow, Baby, at least one aspect is a no-brainer. In the heavily Catholic c...
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It’s Electric, Booga Wooga Wooga

It’s Electric, Booga Wooga Wooga Fort Worth is gonna be bustling this weekend. Saturday is Fall Gallery Night , which means that a lot of us are going to be hopping from gallery to gallery –– Artspa...
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The Tillman Story: “Why Are You Shooting at Me?”

The Tillman Story: “Why Are You Shooting at Me?” I used to live in Arizona, so I remember Pat Tillman wreaking havoc on the football field for Arizona State University. After going on to do the same for the NF...
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Clowns and Flags

To the editor: In his article, “Bigots’ Last Stand,” writer E. R. Bills obviously implies that the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism. He groups it with the ...
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