ART

Dallas beat out San Antonio in a Texas-sized duel for the right to hold an exhibition featuring artifacts of the Egytpian pharaoh Ramses II. Cairo’s archeological circles dubbed it the second “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.” Each city was armed with what it considered a valid letter-of-intent signed by Egyptian officials promising the popular exhibit of the pharoah who ruled Egypt 3,200 years ago. The Ramses exhibit will go to the Museum of Natural History in Dallas in April and then return to Egypt. A compromise worked out last week won’t leave San Antonio empty-handed. The San Antonio Museum of Art will be second in line for “Art of Ancient Egypt,” a new exhibition of art treasures from Egypt’s Nile Delta region. The exhibit debuts in November at Washington’s National Gallery.