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Field Not So Glorious

The DMA hosts two exhibitions--one provocative, one pandering

By Charissa N. Terranova
Dec 7, 2006

Like Joanne Woodward's characters in The Many Faces of Eve, the Dallas Museum of Art is a cultural beast with multiple personalities. There is the mousy, provincial Eve White who wears out-of-date clothes and speaks with a slow Southern drawl. She is fearful, old-fashioned and kowtows to the world. Then...
Pimpin' With a Mullet

Artist Ryan Humphrey riffs on hot-rod and rocker culture

By Charissa N. Terranova
Oct 5, 2006

Like a souped-up, tricked-out rocker's van, Ryan Humphrey's work jumbles the signs of clashing cultures: It's Pimp My Ride meets Van Halen. References to Eddie Van Halen's red-, white- and black-striped Kramer 5150 guitar sit opposite an homage to the flame-painted van of Jeff Spicoli slackerdom. And then there are...
Tuttle Unbound

Artist Richard Tuttle looses a torrent of idiosyncracy

By Charissa N. Terranova
Aug 24, 2006

There is vomit art. There is garage-sale art. And there is the work of Richard Tuttle. Neither one nor the other, Tuttle's art doesn't so much split the difference down the middle as it ignores the two extremes altogether. It is subtler than the wink-wink, nudge-nudge though critically important shark-in-tank...
Piano Works

The architect Renzo Piano makes high design for our local culture of kitsch

By Charissa N. Terranova
Jul 20, 2006

The Italian architect Renzo Piano designs jewel-box buildings. High levels of invention in the realm of engineering--from the ferro-cement ceiling louvers of The Menil Collection in Houston to the glass-sheathed earthquake-proof tower, the Maison Hermès, in Tokyo--do not so much belie the precious quality of his projects as constitute it...
Patriot Acts

Art sledgehammers politics with a smile at Barry Whistler Gallery

By Charissa N. Terranova
Jun 29, 2006

If there ever were a time for art that is political, now is the moment. The art of Patriot Acts, a group show at Barry Whistler Gallery, gives body to an alternative--I say much-needed--type of jingoism. The work of Darryl Lauster, Greg Metz, Michael Miller, Robert Terry and Leslie Wilkes...

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