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The Day the Plastic Clown Died
Robert BoydTwo guys in a bar stood up on stage and took turns telling jokes. The jokes usually started, "Two guys walk into a bar..." they did this for 8 hours. Because it was art, it didn't have to be...
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When Sig Byrd Met Forrest Bess
Robert BoydAfter supper at Forrest Bess' house at the mouth of Chinquapin Bayou (surely the loneliest spot in Texas), we all went into the shipshape studio to drink tequila and coffee and look at our...
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Four Painters
Robert BoydPop-up shows drive me crazy. You blink and you miss it. And the policy of this blog is primarily to write about shows our readers can see, not shows that happened in the past. It's an...
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Going Darke
Robert BoydDarke Gallery is closing. Ratio, a group show featuring Jonathan Clark, Tara Conley, Allison Hunter, Catherine Colangelo, Heath Brodie, Nicholas Auger and Sophie Clyde, is the their final...
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Salon des Refusés- Fun-Fair-Positive Arts?
Dean LiscumWhen I was 10, I sucked at baseball. I needed glasses. I had a weak throwing arm, and my coach's treatment for my hyperactivity primarily involved doing push-ups and running laps around the...
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Pan Recommends for the week of August 1 to August 7
Robert BoydIt's August and art is supposed to stop. We're supposed to be relaxing in our summer homes in Maine. Or if that option is a bit above our socio-economic status, we should be spending every...
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Outsiders
Robert BoydI first became aware that there was a category of art called "outsider art" in the late 80s. I was moving from Los Angeles to Seattle, read about an Adolf Wölfli exhibit at Berkeley and...
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A Six-Ton Weathervane
Robert BoydThis is the new Mark di Suvero at Rice University.Mark di Suvero, Po-Um (Lyric), 2003, Steel, stainless steel 16' x 16' 3" x 8' 5"It was apparently in a private collection when it was...
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Real Estate Art #2
Robert BoydIt's time for another voyeuristic look at other people's art collections, courtesy of the fine people at HAR.com. This time, we have a condo on Shepherd in River Oaks. I recognize a lot of...
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Pan Recommends for the week of August 8 to August 14
Robert BoydAnother slow August week, but there are a few art events happening around town. Check them out if you can peel yourself off the couch.FRIDAYThe Afronauts by Cristina De Middel from DEVELOP...
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Beautiful Rejects
Robert BoydDean Liscum condemned the Salon des Refusés at BLUEorange Gallery as "Fun Fair Positive art"--everybody's a winner here! And there is a lot of art that got shown over the four weekends that...
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The Oddball at Station: A Talk with Angel Quesada
Virginia Billeaud AndersonHe began with an apology for his “rambling mess of thoughts,” but a rambling mess of thoughts I reminded Angel Quesada can wield a considerable mess of information. Quesada is...
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Art Out in the World: Jim Nolan's shifting SCALE
Robert BoydRichard Serra, TWU, 1980, steel (photo by Donna Svennevik)Richard Serra started making large-scale public sculptures in the 70s. Some of these are on the consecrated grounds of museums and...
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Real Estate Art #3
Robert BoydBeautiful, huh? And for four million bucks, you can have it and the acre of land it occupies on Buffalo Bayou in River Oaks. Unlike the last house we visited, this one is very elegant and...
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Outsiders in the New Yorker
Robert BoydJust 10 days after I wrote a review of The Last Folk Hero by Andrew Dietz about Bill Arnett and Thornton Dial, the New Yorker has an article about the pair, "Composition in Black and White"...
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Hot August Links
Robert BoydWhy write for The Great God Pan Is Dead for free when you could write for the New York Times for free instead? Art workers, the New York Times wants you to write about why you do what you...
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Pan Recommends for the week of August 15 to August 21
Robert BoydThis is a weird week for art in Houston. Late summer is always a little light, but when was the last time there were no big openings on Saturday? Friday, on the other hand, looks quite...
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Searching for Forrest Bess
Robert Boyd(This was originally published onGlasstire in a slightly different form.)In 1947, Forrest Bess, who is the subject a show at the Menil that runs through August 18, moved to Chinquapin, a...
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Mildred’s Lane and The Order of the Third Bird
Betsy HueteMildred’s Lane is a living sculpture, archive and museum, artist residency, and pedagogical experiment coordinated by artists J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion and located in Beach Lake, PA....
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This Post Is an Excuse to Post Pictures of the Funnel Tunnel
Robert BoydI went over to see Patrick Renner's Tunnel Funnel today. I wasn't the only one stopping to take photos. People love this enormous object. It's been well reviewed. It's on a scale that even...
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