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Alan says: I am in favor of limiting the governor to two consecutive terms. But blacklisting someone after eight years altogether, regardless of how good or bad they did their job, can needlessly force an effective public official out of public service. Many state governors throughout history have served well over eight years without their constituents regretting it. I would point out that such a system is wholly unworkable in twenty-first century America: we live in the era of the permanent campaign and the 24-hour news cycle. A governor facing re-election every other year would essentially do nothing but fundraise (which is close to what most do anyway even with four-year terms). (November 19th, 2009 at 11:09pm)
Michael Ennis
Features
The 10 Best Buildings in Texas
A tour of our greatest architectural master-pieces—from the Alamo to the World Birding Center—shows how the collision of the Old World and the New forged a unique style on the Texas frontier. (March 2009)
He Was A Camera
Russell Lee’s rarely seen Texas photographs reveal an artist at the peak of his powers of observation. (April 2007)
Art • Joseph Havel
Breaking the mold. (September 2000)
Northern Exposure
With Fort Worth’s Michael Auping as a curator and nine of the state’s artists participating, this year’s Whitney Biennial puts a New York spotlight on the art of Texas. (February 2000)
ART • Luis Jimenez
Sculpting a legacy. (September 1998)
The Return of the Native
With a major retrospective of his work at three Houston museums, Robert Rauschenberg is once again the talk of Texas. What’s he been up to? A portrait of the artist as an old man. (March 1998)
Folks
The boom in “outsider” art that began in New York, Chicago, and Atlanta has finally come to Texas, driven by true visionaries whose images conjure worlds that may have never existed but are invariably inhabitedby penetrating psychological truths. (August 1997)
Shock Therapy
By employing stereotypes like Sambo and Aunt Jemima, Austin painter Michael Ray Charles hopes to master the art of racial healing. (June 1997)
So You Don’t Like The Way You Look?
To a plastic surgeon, your face is just the beginning. (November 1981)
Columns | Miscellany
The New New Deal
What University of Texas historian H. W. Brands’s new biography of Franklin Roosevelt tells us about the Obama administration. (January 2009)
The Drill Team
Is the answer to our energy crisis really offshore? (October 2008)
End of The Road
During all but two of the past twenty years, someone named Bush had led our nation or led our state. Now we’re moving on. (June 2008)
Bear Market
The historic showdown between Texas and California has been a cold war, a simmering ideological feud between two great powers. And the winner (for now) is . . . (March 2008)
Modern Problems
What Dallas has in common with Beijing—and why their shared vision of the twenty-first-century world must carry the day. (November 2007)
Centered
Where the great silent majority is taking politics, here and elsewhere. (August 2007)
How We Blew It
Remember all that talk of tipping the balance of history on a fulcrum of those “Texas values” everyone was crowing about? (April 2007)
The Mighty Metroplex
Just a few years after nearly being written off the map, the region has become a roaring engine of growth and social transformation. (January 2007)
All Shook Up
Independent candidates for governor won’t win this year, but they’ve certainly upended the established order. Democrats and Republicans, you have only yourselves to blame. (October 2006)
My Father’s War
What I learned about Iraq from World War II—and what all the president’s men could learn. (August 2006)
T.R. Fehrenbach Is History
He’s still the gold standard by which all chroniclers of our shared experience are judged, but it’s time to look to the new generation. How do his wannabe heirs stack up? (July 2006)
North Toward Home
As surprising as our immigrant-friendliness may be to many, it speaks to who we are. To be a Texan is to inhabit a vast bicultural frontera, one that extends far beyond the Rio Grande. (April 2006)
The Bidness Myth
Rethinking the way we do business—and government—down here. (January 2006)
Culture of Strife
Frozen embryos are destroyed every day in the name of in vitro fertilization. Tell me again what’s so wrong with stem cell research? (October 2005)
What’s the Matter With Dallas?
For starters, even though its self- image is big and brash, it’s the most politically wimpy city in Texas. (July 2005)
Dissing Darwin
Why Texas could lose the biotech revolution—and end up, once again, an economic also-ran. (April 2005)
No Hat, No Cattle
We Texans have long considered ourselves, in mythical terms, old cowhands. But we’re waking up to discover that weĠre really city slickers. (January 2005)
The Cowboy Myth
The idea that U.S. policy bears an indelible made-in- Texas stamp is a rare point of bipartisan consensus. But there's nothing inherently Texan about the president's leadership style. (October 2004)
Apocalypse Now
What sets Dallas apart from other sophisticated American cities? Its unique end-of-the-world industry. (July 2004)
The Accidental City
A new anthology of articles about Houston from the journal of the Rice Design Alliance is a sweeping historical overview, a civic memoir, and a municipal self-help guide. (December 2003)
Everybody Loves Ray
As in Nasher, and everybody should. His $70 million sculpture center is the most eagerly anticipated arts opening in Dallas' history. (September 2003)
Prints of a Fellow
The addition of Leo Steinberg's magnificent collection makes it official: UT-Austin's Blanton is one of the best university art museums in the country. (June 2003)
The Minimalist
The real revelation of Donald Judd's early work is how far ahead of its time it looks—not simply its own time, but our time as well. (April 2003)
A Fine Modness
Modernism may yet be proved dead, but if so, it has left an exquisite corpse in Fort Worth's stunning new Modern Art Museum. (December 2002)
Peter's Principles
Some people look at Houston and see only rough edges. Peter Marzio, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, sees a brash upstart that should be proud of its cultural riches. (September 2002)
Moving Pictures
At Houston's FotoFest 2002, digital art took center stage as never before-and proved that the Next Big Thing might really be the next big thing. (May 2002)
Small Stuff
The Hyde Park Miniature Museum in Houston is an outsized testament to one man's love of his life's little treasures. (April 2002)
Amon High
With a massive addition to its gallery space and a host of new exhibitions in the works, Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum is back in the saddle. (January 2002)
Best Western
Frank Reaugh was one of the state's greatest artists. So why does his name draw so many blanks? (October 2001)
Thoroughly Modern
Denton's Toni LaSelle has a perspective on the modernist movement like no other artist. That's because she witnessed it first-hand. (August 2001)
Image Conscious
Meet two prominent Houston artists who are at the forefront of digital art—and the debate over what virtual reality means for reality itself. (July 2001)
The Reign of Spain
If you're searching for the splendor of Spain's golden age, look no further than the Meadows Museum in Dallas and the Alamo in San Antonio. (May 2001)
Master Builder
From Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum to Houston's Pennzoil Place to Dallas' forthcoming Cathedral of Hope, architect Philip Johnson's grand vision for Texas is set in stone. (August 2000)
Time of Nic
Sixteen years after rocketing into the Whitney Biennial, Dallas photographer Nic Nicosia is still on the cutting edge. (November 1999)
Master Class
How a collection of paintings and drawings coveted by Sotheby’s and other art world Goliaths ended up at the University of Texas at Austin. (April 1999)
Joan of Art
Less than a decade ago, she was a homemaker and an arts volunteer, but today the Arlington Museum of Art’s Joan Davidow is the most imaginative and adventurous museum director working in Texas. (January 1998)
On With the Shows
Now that both its building and its mission have been renovated, Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum is ready to win back the public and reestablish its eminence. (May 1997)
The Mod Squad
Long mocked for making unrecognizable pieces of junk, Texas Modernists strike back in a superb exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. (March 1996)
Raw Visions
A Houston show introduces new black Texas artists in works that range from personal vision to political agitprop. (November 1992)
Southern Exposure
At Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Mexican photographers portray their culture with rare empathy and a sense of wonder. (July 1992)
Long Shot
Bert Long comes to Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum by way of the Fifth Ward, the Marines, haute cuisine—and the Prix de Rome. (February 1992)
Then and Now
Two San Antonio shows examine how Texas artists interpret the state’s past and present. (December 1991)
Buried Treasures
Sifting through stored collections, the Dallas Museum of Art discovers a tradition of spiritual subtlety among Texas artists. (October 1991)
Reporter
In the Red
Texas artists versus Texas galleries. (June 1996)
