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Dallas Artist John Wilcox Has Died
By Bill Davenport on June 14, 2012
Dallas artist John Wilcox has died, after a long battle with HIV. During the late 80′s Wilcox lived in New York, experiencing firsthand the AIDS epidemic that was consuming the art community, and showed works reacting to that crisis at Barry Whistler Gallery in 2010. In the same year, Wilcox summed up his life in a [...]
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East Dallas Gallery Day Saturday
By Bill Davenport on June 13, 2012
On Saturday, June 16, eight galleries located in the Deep Ellum and Expo Park kick off the Summer together with East Dallas Gallery Day. Barry Whistler, The Public Trust, Kirk Hopper, Kettle Art, W.A.A.S., 500X, CentralTrak, The Reading Room and Oliver Francis Gallery will be open from 12 noon-9pm; from 12-3 some of Dallas’ finest [...]
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Stuff by DFW artists I want to buy NOW: Sub-Recession Artbuyer Blues
By Christina Rees on May 10, 2012
You must have noticed, if you live in DFW, that there’s some pretty exciting artwork bobbing all over its various surfaces. Local artists are getting busy, many on their own terms or under new conditions forced by a stagnant economy. This has me jonesing; I want and I want. I have the eye for collecting, [...]
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Lawrence Lee and Jonathan Cross at Barry Whistler Gallery
By Lucia Simek on December 16, 2011
Lawrence Lee and Jonathan Cross are art dopplegangers. While they look nothing alike, the trajectories of their art careers have played out in very similar ways, in no small part due to Barry Whistler’s good nose about the two of them. The two artists had never met until the opening reception of their shows at BWG [...]
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Barry Whistler interviewed, Simek baits Dallas art bashers
By Bill Davenport on May 31, 2011
D Magazine recently ran an interview with longtime Dallas art dealer Barry Whistler, eliciting a bit of history and a bit of philosophy on the occasion of his 25th year in business. For kicks, writer Peter Simek responds to comments from well known Dallas-art basher John Viramontes and touches off an exchange of nasty comments [...]
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