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I Have a New Article Up at Glasstire
graffiti in the Media Center movie theater after the last movie was displayed I wrote about the last few times I went to the Rice Media Center before it closed. Check it out!
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Homologous Cartoons
Robert BoydIn the 19th century, mathematicians invented a new branch of mathematics, topology, the mathematics of shapes. They turned ways of thinking about shapes into a kind of algebra. One of the...
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Fifth Ward Salute
Robert BoydAbout 10 years ago, I wrote a very brief post about a odd piece of public art in the Fifth Ward. If you read the piece, you will see that I knew nothing about this piece. There was no...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Frank Herbert, Doris Lessing, Primo Levi and...
Robert BoydToday I looked at several books from my library. I report on Dune by Frank Herbert, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, If This is a Man, The Truce, The Periodic Table, and The Monkey's...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Art & Revolution by John Berger
Robert BoydToday I'm discussing Art & Revolution by John Berger, the late English critic best known for Ways of Seeing. Art & Revolution is a critical biography of Ernst Niezvestny, an...
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Real Estate Art: 13342 Hopes Creek Road, College Station
Robert BoydI was intrigued flipping through HAR.com by this huge, futuristic house out near Texas A&M. I hoped they might have an art collection--a house that big on a lot that big (317 acres) has...
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Real Estate Art: 713 Booth Street
Robert BoydI am working on some new posts, but I hope this real estate art post will satisfy my few remaining readers for a little while. This is a very interesting house on the near northside,...
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The Houston Fall Art Season, part 1
Robert BoydThe world of art galleries is divided into seasons. I don’t say “the art world” because I consider the gallery world to be a small subset of the art world. But traditionally, we have a fall...
View ArticleBook Report: I Shock Myself by Beatrice Wood
Robert BoydToday I report on I Shock Myself, a memoir by American ceramicist Beatrice Wood. I'm primarily interested in her for her early friendship with Marcel Duchamp and other early dadaists who...
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The Houston Fall Art Season, part II
Robert BoydIn my first installment, I visited four exhibitions. In this one I shall discuss seven! This was Saturday, September 11--an auspicious anniversary. 20 years ago, 2977 people died of a...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
by Robert BoydToday I report on 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline, a professor of classics and anthropology at George Washington University. The subject here is an event...
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Liminal States/Silver #2
by Robert Boyd Jim Nolan, Liminal States/Silver #2, mixed media, 2019I am a material boy. I love to own things, especially if those things were created by artists. But because I was laid off shortly...
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Funny Ha-ha AND Funny Strange
Robert BoydI want to write a brief note on Emily Peacock's new exhibit which is up at Lawndale Art & Performance Center through January 15, 2022. The name of the show is die laughing. I've been...
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How High the Moon
by Robert BoydThe 8th Continent is the title of a new artwork by Brazilian artist Clarissa Tossin now on view in the Brochstein Pavilion at Rice University. Some followers of the Houston art scene may...
View ArticleThe Artist is an Illegitimate Cosmonaut
by Robert BoydToday I reviewed Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew to Space from his Apartment, a short book by Russian art critic Boris Groys. It's a short book--only 60 pages (many of which are full-page...
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It's Emily Peacock Season
Robert BoydSometimes an artist shows up in multiple venues at one time. Right now, one can see Beth Secor at UH Downtown and at Inman Gallery. And Emily Peacock has a show at Lawndale and Jonathan...
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Nestor Topchy at the Silos
Robert BoydOn October 16, Nestor Topchy did a performance at the Silos, perhapos the strangest and most awkward visual art venue in Houston. The Silos are actual grain silos, defunct artifacts of...
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Browsing Through Zines at El Rincón Social
Robert BoydI can’t remember who told me this or where I read it, but it’s been said that for photographers, the ultimate goal is a book. I think this was said in contrast with other kinds of visual...
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Some Sculpture Month Highlights
Robert BoydSculpture in inconvenient. It takes up a lot of space and it therefore difficult to collect. There is a funny quote that is variously attributed to Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt:...
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Interview with Wes Hicks about Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, part 1
Robert BoydIn 1985, some grad students in the U.H. art program were about to be kicked out. Their crime? They had completed their degree requirements and were graduating. They had studios at Lawndale,...
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"With their beards and everything" -- part 2 of the interview with Wes Hicks
Robert BoydThis is part 2 of my interview with Wes Hicks about the origins and early years of the Commerce Street Artists Warehouse. In part 1, Hicks discussed the very beginnings of the art space. In...
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Looking At Art Around Town
Robert BoydI started out this weekend driving out to Sharpstown to Alta Arts. I have a lot to say about this relatively new art organization. Their new structure, pictured below, is amazing. And...
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Kevin Cunningham on Founding and Moving On from Commerce Street Artists...
Robert BoydKevin Cunningham is a playwright, director, and producer involved in New York theater through the organization he founded and runs, 3-Legged Dog Media and Theater. But in the 80s, he was an...
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Zine Fest is Coming!
Robert BoydThis Saturday, at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Zine Fest Houston returns for its latest iteration. It has been running every year, except for last year for obvious reasons,...
View ArticleA Little Reminder that The Great God Pan Is Dead has Moved
If you have a subscription to this blog, you may have noticed that it has been silent for almost a year. While it would be reasonable to conclude that I just got bored with it and quit, I have in fact...
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