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2001 Stories by Bret Mccabe

• Mixed Signals

  published April 5, 2001

  The confluence of pop, op, conceptualism, minimalism, et al in the 1960s and 1970s coughed up video art like a fur ball. The portable video... More >>

• Out & About

  published March 22, 2001

  Nothing says "adult contemporary" or "smooth jazz" quite like the presence of a tantric sex advocate, and the vocal appearance by Sting on... More >>

• Christina Rosenvinge

  published March 22, 2001

  In recent years, a French achievement has been celebrated on this side of the Atlantic with a bravado not seen since Hollywood's admiration... More >>

• Fuck

  published March 22, 2001

  Before a group of metal-schooled, post-punk-bred young American men came around in the early 1990s to smelt a solid sheet of polyrhythmic... More >>

• Natural Wonders

  published March 22, 2001

  One of the most unnatural things you'll ever encounter in modern and contemporary art is a representation of nature. It's one of the few... More >>

• Tale of the Tapes

  published March 8, 2001

  What passes for "reality" under the great video eye of network television is pretty lame these days. Personally, we're not going to take that... More >>

• Press On

  published March 8, 2001

  Looking back, May 27, 1995, was the beginning of the end. Shortly after Denton's Factory Press performed in North Texas for the last time that... More >>

• Girls on Film

  published March 8, 2001

  Nothing nudges common sense out of any fruitful discourse quite like nudity. Ever since Homo sapiens began covering their bodies with... More >>

• Dirty South

  published February 22, 2001

  Every band attracts some type. Some draw despondent Goth kids, some draw the fun-loving mod boys, while others attract a Christian audience. Some... More >>

• Out & About

  published February 22, 2001

  Prevailing rockcrit wisdom posits Jon Spencer as rock's pre-eminent postmodernist. Sure, he's not as neon as Beck nor as conniving as Madonna, but... More >>

• Be Here Now

  published February 8, 2001

  Forget Zen--you don't have to engage in obtuse intellectual gymnastics or wrestle with metaphysical riddles to be perfectly at ease with being in... More >>

• Out & About

  published February 8, 2001

  After conquering America by selling more than 7 million copies of 1998's Devil Without a Cause, the only question that remains about... More >>