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Joslyn Art Museum reveals design for New Rhonda and Howard Hawks Pavilion Aerial view. Image: Moare. OMAHA, NE .-Joslyn Art Museum executive director & CEO Jack Becker unveiled the design for the Museum’s expansion and renovation, led by international architectural firm Snøhetta in partnership with Omaha’s Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture (APMA). The new building will be named for Rhonda and Howard Hawks of The Hawks Foundation. Scope of Project Central to the 42,000-square-foot Rhonda a...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   “Ragnar Kjartansson: Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy,” with performers Diana Gameros, left, and Kendra McKinley at the Guggenheim Museum iin New York. A video installation by Wu Tsang with Beverly Glenn-Copeland is part of a series of shows with a shared political charge, a taste of what can be. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; David Heald via The New York Times. by Holland Cotter (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- When the lockdown lifted this past spring, some of our ...

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The original firehouse at Lubbocks airport was a two-bay, one-story wooden structure, dated from 1942, built to be more practical than pleasurable.

George R. Miller was the only recorded hanging in the Texas Plains. Read about him in the first of a two-part series by columnist Chuck Lanehart.

Caprock Chronicles: Lubbock Police Department centennial Monte Monroe Editor’s Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a retired Texas Tech librarian. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article is by Monte Monroe, Ph.D. He is an archivist at the Southwest/Special Collection Library on the campus of Texas Tech University. On May 11, 2021, the mayor and city council officially recognized the Lubbock Police Department for 100 years of service, hosting a public...

Editors Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker a retired librarian. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. This week’s Caprock Chronicles is written by John McCullough, author and aviation historian of Lubbock, who holds a master’s degree in history from Texas Tech.  Horace Anglin is a retired fire chief with the Lubbock Fire Department.  In 1970, he worked at Fire Station 10, which was at 48th Street and Quirt Ave (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd).  He was the captain of...

Caprock Chronicles: If these pincushions could talk Marian Ann J. Montgomery Editors Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a retired Texas Tech Librarian.  He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu.  Today’s article is by Marian Ann J. Montgomery, Curator of Clothing and Textiles, Museum of Texas Tech University and a frequent contributor to this column. "Sumptuous Stitches and Tiny Treasures: Needlework and Needlework Tools" from the Museum of Texas Tech University Collection i...

Caprock Chronicles: El Nino and West Texas Richard Peterson Editors Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited weekly by Jack Becker a retired Texas Tech librarian. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article is by Dr. Richard Peterson, professor emeritus, TTU, Department of Atmospheric Sciences. In 1983 the Institute of Disaster at Texas Tech University received a desperate request for assistance from a community in northern Chile. Due to torrential rains, their normally arid en...

Caprock Chronicles: From Texas Tech pilot to the Himalaya Mountains - a Panhandle farmer’s journey During WWII Mary Walker Clark Editors Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited each week by Jack Becker a retired TTU Librarian. He may be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu Today’s article is by Mary Walker Clark, an award-winning travel writer who has recently written “Landing in my Present,” her journey retracing her father’s war time experiences in Indian and China. In 1939, Ray Charles Wa...