It’s truly amazing what casting sculpture in video rather than the traditional media can do. Materials such as bronze, wood and stone just seem so clunky in comparison to video’s lightweight incandescence. Whether analogue or digital, the result of emulsification processes on paper or a pixelation on a screen, video…

Just as you found yourself comfortably attuned to painting as a two-dimensional medium, along comes an elaborate exhibition of work by the 19th-century English painter J.M.W. Turner to tell you otherwise. You find yourself asking, “Height and width, right?” That’s all there is to this timeworn window into the world–those…

Dallas is a city that thrives on the artificial. That bellwether of 1970s and 1980s greed and flaccid angst–and oh, yes, drama–the television show Dallas, long ago put the city’s affaire d’amour with artifice on the map. Dallas proudly told the world that it loved the artificial and did so…