Dallas: Who's Behind the Arts Boom?

Once known for J.R. Ewing, a football team and an assassination, the Texas city is now—thanks to a civic-minded group of philanthropists—a bona fide arts destination. Meet the lone stars behind the Dallas cultural boom.

By Kevin West
Photographed by Jason Schmidt

July 2010

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John and Lisa Runyon at home in Dallas with Richard Phillips’s Mask, 1995.

Photographed by Jason Schmidt

July 2010

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