Abstract World

OSTWAR ART history is often written as if it were a New York story, but what about Tokyo, Seoul, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro? A much more inclusive and diverse view of the period is being presented at the Dallas Museum of Art, in a current exhibition, “Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia” (through July 10). Drawing on the deep holdings of the DMA and supplementing them with works from important local collections, the curators—Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art; Dr. Vivian Li, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art;