When artists migrate to the United States from whatever country and for whatever reason, inevitably the move precipitates a change in their work. Whether that is due to a change…
Bret McCabe
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By occupying one main gallery and four quadrant galleries at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Wolfgang Laib exhibition involves a physical journey as much as the spiritual qua intellectual…
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Episodes: Claire Ankenman, Lily Hanson, Kirk Hayes, Jeremy Red and Juvenal Reis
by Bret McCabeby Bret McCabeSummer is most often a down time for galleries in Texas, shirking the usual solo shows of their roster in favor of group shows of new talent. Expectedly, these shows…
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Make love, not war: Even as young Americans proudly advertised that mantra on their person more than 30 years ago, some of their peers knew that equally as many people…
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Sometimes you got to give credit where credit is due. Though the McKinney Avenue Contemporary still occasionally holds some curious exhibitions as sister shows to those at Pillsbury Peters Fine…
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Ask a random sample of Americans what theme best expresses life at the dawn of this 21st century, and chances are they’ll respond with some pre-packaged cliché — the age…
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The work of New York-based, British artist Matthew Ritchie propels his audience into familiar yet foreign universes. Using a combination of paintings and drawings on canvas and walls to create…
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Drop “Krazy Kat” creator George Herriman into America at the dawn of this 21st century and he’d marvel at the prevalence of comic book imagery that surrounds him. You can’t…
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Los Angeles has a way of transforming its non-native inhabitants into its most articulate chroniclers. German filmmaker Billy Wilder became one of the most daft and deft raconteurs of American…