Martin Puryear exhibited a group of his wall-mounted wooden circles at Delahunty Gallery here in Dallas back in 1981. I can’t imagine that anyone among the twenty- to thirty-year-old art…
Charles Dee Mitchell
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This is getting written a week or so after the event rather than being the sort of on-the-spot reporting it probably should be, but I want to submit some thoughts…
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When I was a kid one of my favorite books was a picture book on fish. There were sharks and manta rays, but the coolest two page spread showed fish…
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Theater lore offers this definition of the The Actor's Nightmare: You find yourself on stage with a dog or a child. If the art world had a similar definition for…
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High wire acts make me so nervous that I can't pretend to enjoy them. Not even simple tightrope walkers. I never thought the of the Flying Wallendas as either artists…
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The Night of the Living Dead was the first movie that scared me as an adult. When it came out in 1968, I suppose I wasn’t using my new driver’s…
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Ice Cream is the fourth installment of Phaidon Press's mega-surveys of contemporary art that began with Cream in 1998. Cream was followed in 2000 by Fresh Cream, which was followed…
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We were surprised by the mid-week crowds in mid-September at documenta 12. Maybe because it had only two weeks left there were a lot of last minute attendees, but then…
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I am sitting down to write about Sculpture Projects Munster almost a month after I was there, and I can say without doubt the most memorable thing about the exhibiton…
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The last week of the Asian Film Festival included two high-profile, big-budget films, Battle of Wits from Hong Kong and Tazza: The High Rollers from Korea. Battle of Wits is…
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Welcome to Earth Two. (Isn't that where Superman ended up sometimes, a place where things seemed earthlike but somehow different.) In this case its located at the Cafe Rakkyo, an…
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It is two days into the 6th Annual Dallas Asian Film Festival Three if you count the VIP Preview receptions at Nobu, where, as you might suspect, the food was…
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The dog days of August are here. Galleries are either on vacation or operating with reduced hours. Gerald Peters has announced a delay to their move to the Design District,…
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Merv Griffin’s death last week has set me thinking. I was never much of a Merv Griffin fan. His most distinguishing characteristic for me — and remember this was when…
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The 20th Annual Dallas Video Festival has come to an end. As usual I did not make it to as much as I intended, and the thought that I would…
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The new Melissa Miller monograph is out from the University of Texas Press, and it is quite the impressive tome – 11 x 12 inches, 177 pages, over 100 color…
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I get a fair number of invitations to previews and openings, but this is the best in sometime. I got an invitation from Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and the…
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GORDON MATTA CLARK: YOU ARE THE MEASURE, edited by Eve Sussman. Yale University Press. Catalogs can never replace the experience of seeing the exhibition, but there are some catalogs that…
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A couple of weeks ago Manhattan was thick with Texans, both touring and transplanted. On a single Thursday, I ran into Noah Simblist at Guild and Greyshkull Gallery in Soho.…
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To what extent are William Betts' paintings paintings? This is not a purely rhetorical question. The works he has currently at Holly Johnson Gallery are fantastically intricate abstractions whose dazzling…