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Biting back

The Whitney Biennial has brought out the worst in the art world -- fussing, feuding, and in-fighting. But Fort Worth's Michael Auping stands by his decision to bring a few Texans to New York.

By Christina Rees
Feb 10, 2000

Brian Fridge doesn't look like he's about to become an art-world celebrity. With his shorn head, thick glasses, and stiff blue blazer, you'd swear he was just another museum security guard. Standing very still, his long-fingered hands clasped low in front of wrinkled khakis, he casts a faraway gaze over...
Against the wall

Despite regional rivalries and hard times, the Fall Gallery Walk has picked up its pace

By Christina Rees and Annabelle Massey Helber
Sep 16, 1999

If you believe the urban legend, then Amon Carter started it: a bitter rivalry between Dallas and Fort Worth that goes back for generations. Carter is the Fort Worth tycoon who supposedly packed a lunch before traveling to Dallas, just to make sure he wouldn't have to spend a nickel...
The grand dame of Dallas art: Edith Baker

By Christina Rees
Sep 16, 1999

Edith Baker knows Dallas better than you know your own kids, but that means she knows one hell of a fickle community. As the owner-director of one of the city's most venerable art spaces, the Edith Baker Gallery, she's been to hell and back in this town. Times of boom...
Manhattan transfer

Denton's Good/Bad Art Collective takes its act to New York and hopes to survive the city's brutal art scene.

By Christina Rees
Jul 29, 1999

The Lower East Side of Manhattan is not exactly a slice of New York known for its cinematic beauty, what with its crowded tenement buildings, grime-baked streets, and indigenous odors of vomit and urine. Yet for a handful of years, it has been the last bastion of downtown bohemia for...
Short takes

By Zac Crain, Jimmy Fowler, Scott Kelton Jones and Christina Rees
Mar 18, 1999

What follows are brief reviews of some highlights from the Dallas Video Festival, arranged chronologically. The festival runs from Thursday, March 25, through Sunday, March 28, in four different areas--the Electronic Theater, Video Cabaret, Video Lounge, and Video Box--at the Kalita Humphreys Theater, 3636 Turtle Creek Boulevard. Installations of video...
Fool for love

By Christina Rees
Mar 18, 1999

Love 'im or hate 'im, Hal Hartley has invaded the ranks of lauded indie filmmakers with quiet determination. His material--intentionally flat, talky, and existentially "hip"--usually involves urban anti-heroes and -heroines stumbling through modern emotional war zones, most often those of love and commitment. And boy, do they talk. Not Whit...
Local boys make good (video)

By Christina Rees
Mar 18, 1999

Searching for Carrie Fisher may be the best little gem in the festival. Too bad it's buried in the otherwise unremarkable "Love and Obsession" compilation. You may have to sit through some pretty bad selections to get to it, but it's definitely worth the wait. Then again, you already may...
Video Binge

The 12th Annual Dallas Video Festival offers all of the flavor with none of the fat of heavy TV consumption

By Jimmy Fowler and Christina Rees
Mar 18, 1999

Bart Weiss, artistic director of the Dallas Video Festival, loves every single entry in his international video showcase's 12th year, again hosted by the Dallas Theater Center in its Kalita Humphreys Theater. He has watched each of them from beginning to end, and a helluva lot more that didn't make...
Major Mistakes

Signing to a record label can be bad for a band's health. So why do they keep doing it?

By Christina Rees
Feb 11, 1999

When Steven Holt's dream came true, no one else was there to see it. There he was, living the musician's fantasy, signed to a big-time record label--what every boy longs for from the moment he straps on his first guitar and plays his first clumsy chords. There he was, a...
The Artful Bomber

Graffiti artist Greg Contestabile grows up and grows respectable, but finds that the glam of the gallery can't top the lure of the street

By Christina Rees
Oct 22, 1998

Standard packing list for a midnight run on a deserted train yard: Water bottle Flashlight Sandwich bag full of custom paint-can nozzles Cigarettes Rolled spliff Flash camera, for documentation Sixteen cans of Krylon paint On a moonless Thursday night, somewhere just north of Dallas, two young men jump out of...
Bleeding arts

When an alcoholic, a schizophrenic, and a homeless man get together and draw, the Stewpot calls it group therapy. Christina Rees calls it art.

By Christina Rees
Sep 17, 1998

Among those who gather outside the red-brick mission on Harwood Street are day workers, drug addicts, shelter people, the mentally ill. Sitting on the curb, queuing up restlessly, they wait for some indication that their hot lunch is ready. Once inside, they become part of the 200 people who daily...
Rock bottom

Tucked away in the cellar of a Denton pizza shack is a club that offers punk rock bands a place to re-discover why they make music in the first place

By Christina Rees
May 28, 1998

On a balmy late night in a historic town square, the welcoming glow of a pizza parlor beckons the hungry and the bored. Inside, a tidy row of tables, a soda fountain, and polished wood paneling reflect the smooth operation of a modest business; the guy working behind the counter...
1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

By Zac Crain, Jimmy Fowler, Scott Kelton Jones, Keven Mcalester, Christina Rees, Joshua Sindell and Robert Wilonsky
Apr 30, 1998

Josh Alan Nominated for: Blues, Folk/Acoustic Who knew what to make of Alan's 1997 Blacks 'n' Jews? The title track was a work of absolute genius and chutzpah, the history of black-Jewish relations rolled up into one glib, sharp statement: "Marchin' two-by-two down in Mississippi/One was a Panther when the...
Two From Column B

The 28th Annual USA Film Festival Artist Profile

By Christina Rees
Apr 9, 1998

It's a shame that of all the young Asian-American filmmakers showcased at this year's Festival, the one to nab the most hype is spotlight-chaser Jon Moritsugu. A shame, but not a surprise. Moritsugu is a hack--hack director, hack screenwriter, hack editor and producer. His films, driven by quasi shock-value and...
Honeymoon suite

Good/Bad at the new Conduit Annex proves that size really does matter

By Christina Rees
Mar 12, 1998

When the Conduit Gallery invited Good/Bad Art Collective to stage the first show in its new annex, the union evoked a list of strange but workable partnerships. A shot of whiskey in a beer. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. CBGB's and early punk rock. The common thread? Each of these...
Terry Gilliam's Flying Circus

By Christina Rees
Mar 5, 1998

In the end, Terry Gilliam will be most remembered for his feature film direction, and perhaps rightly so. From high-profile works of great ambition like The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys to his irony-laden fairy tales The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Time Bandits, and most impressively, his cult-followed satirical...
Dog days

By Christina Rees
Mar 5, 1998

Best known for his just-this-side-of-cloying giant Polaroids of his Weimaraner dogs, William Wegman has kept one foot in the elitist high-art sphere while cultivating larger commercial success since the mid-'70s, when he broke from his post-art-school conceptual experimentation to work with his beloved pooch Man Ray. In video shorts and...
Eat This

By Christina Rees
Mar 5, 1998

Ask a roomful of college graduates how many have waited tables for a living. Don't be surprised by an impressive show of hands. Or by a high turnout of those still making their living from tips rather than tackling the corporate world. The real surprise: that a documentary about the...
See your world on a small screen at the 11th Annual Dallas Video Festival

By Jimmy Fowler, Christina Rees and Scott Kelton Jones
Mar 5, 1998

For 11 years now, the Dallas Video Festival has been better appreciated across the country and around the world than it has in the city whose name it bears. You could offer this as evidence that Dallas has earned its reputation: that of a Southwestern money mecca whose residents would...