Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is a bunch of cities that are right next to each other, but hold your horses they're not that next to each other. Like you might want to go to a museum in Fort Worth although you're staying in Dallas, but it takes like an hour to get there with practically no traffic so surprise surprise. Anyway, I like the way these places look. Fort Worth is especially pretty, although there are a lot of rolling grassy hills, knolls even, throughout all of DFW. They are weird though. Like they call Randall's Tom Thumb, and Hardee's Carl's Jr., and there's this weird flashing yellow arrow for yielding left turns that doesn't exist anywhere else. In Conclusion, from my day and a half in the DFW Metroplex I can safely claim that it's a pretty good city/cities, even though the drivers there are the biggest assholes of any city's drivers. That's never been said before, I know.

RATING: 71%

The Nasher Sculpture Center

The Nasher Sculpture Center is right across the street from the Dallas Museum of Art in downtown Dallas. Admission was $10 per person, but it's free on the first Saturday of the month. It was worth the trip just for James Turrell's Tending (Blue), the only site-specific piece at the Nasher and one of the most refreshing things I've seen in a long time. There was also a nice Rodin in the outdoor garden, and an interesting piece by Antony Gormley called Quantum Cloud XX. I didn't really care for much of the other stuff: there were a few tumorous Henry Moores, some Picassos (overrated, if you ask me) and some truly nasty De Koonings. I like modern art and even some modern sculpture, but I'm not a big fan of ugly sculpture.

RATING: 100%--Multiple Rodins and a Turrell installation for $10 is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on.

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