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The Work of Art in the Age of Home Depot
Robert BoydToday the Art Guys walked around city hall, each encased in a 6-foot high fence. This was a performance called Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, one of 12 monthly performances they are doing...
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Robert BoydYou may have noticed a little widget over to the right that is commanding you to "subscribe to our mailing list," which I admit is somewhat curious wording. We actually want you to subscribe...
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Pan Recommends for the week of August 22 to August 28
Robert BoydHere's most of what's opening up this weekend in Houston's art scene in these last few weeks before the fall season.THURSDAYpainting by Emilio ReatoArgentine Art in Houston curated by Andres...
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Lawn Art in Spring Branch
Robert BoydIf you've ever been up to the Houston Foundry on Burnett St. in the Fifth Ward, you've probably seen Metalhenge, a sculpture group of metal screens in an empty lot at the corner of Maury and...
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Sunday Afternoon Links
Robert BoydHere's a few items that have crossed my RSS feed in the past few days.Ken Price, The Pinkest and the Heaviest, 1986, fired and painted clay, two parts: 7 x 4 ½ x 3 ¾ in, 8 ½ x 8 ½ x 7 ¾...
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A Certain Voluntary Association of Artists
Robert BoydSomeone, often an artist, owns or has access to a space that can be subdivided into studios. Maybe it was a warehouse once upon a time. The space is rented out to other artists. These...
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Esteban Delgado: Shifting Plasticity
Betsy Huete Jessica Stockholder, while working primarily as a sculptor, widely engages with the type of formal concerns that exist in the realm of painting. She arranges objects that just about anyone...
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At Sea With Larson and Connor
Robert BoydDylan Conner, Red Snapper, 2013, steel, plaster, enamel, 14 x 5 84 inchesStates of Matter is a fairly nondescript name for this show of work by Dylan Connor and Alex Larsen at Avis Frank...
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POLL: Where Do You Houston Artists Live?
Robert BoydWhere do you live?A commenter on Swamplot made the following comment in reference to some new construction in the Third Ward:My understanding is that it goes like this: First are usually the...
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Pan Recommends for the week of August 29 to September 4
Robert BoydHappy Labor Day weekend! If you're not at the beach, here are some art things to do. (And if you are at the beach, swing by GAR and the Galveston Art Center.)THURSDAYThis 3-D image of a...
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Soo Sunny Park and Total Reflective Abstraction
Betsy HueteThere is an article filed away in an old issue of Cabinet Magazine written by Josiah McElheny. In it he proposes the canonization of a movement born of a conversation between Isamu Noguchi...
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Pan Recommends for the week of September 5 to September 11
Robert BoydThis is the busiest weekend of the year as far as gallery and museum openings go. Below is a list of most of what's opening this weekend--33 exhibits by my count. Can one possibly see them...
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Where the Artists Are
Robert BoydAbout a week ago, I asked artists to respond to an informal poll about where they lived. I wanted to see if there were particular neighborhoods that artists favored. I got 52 responses and...
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In the Eleventh Hour, Cuteness
Seen last night at Diverse Works.Mel Chin, Jilava Prison Bed, 1982, steel, cotton batting, cotton, 42 by 37 by 69 inches
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A Borges Shaped Hole
Robert BoydJune 1985. I had a summer job on a seismic boat in the Gulf of Mexico. Anticipating plenty of reading time, I brought several books with me, including the Labyrinths (Modern Library, 1983),...
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Real Estate Art #4
Robert BoydFor this installment of Real Estate Art, we're going to leave the wealthier precincts behind and look at a more middle-class offering in Mangum Manor, just north of 290. This is one of those...
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Pan Recommends for the week of September 12 to September 18
Robert BoydAfter last week's artapalooza, this week is more sedate. The big event is the Karen Finley reading next Wednesday, plus there are some opportunities Saturday to see work that in some ways...
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Anne Ferrer's Kandy-Kolored Confections
Robert BoydAnne Ferrer, Unicorn Pink, Pink and Pink Strip, ripstop fabric, 2013This giant pink confection is what you see when you walk into Gallery Longnecker. You see superbright pink colors, a...
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Eclectic Menagerie Revisited
Robert BoydI was driving around aimlessly on Friday and decided to go down 288 to see Eclectic Menagerie Park. I have written about this place before--a strange sculpture garden off the freeway at...
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Sittin Round Drunk in Houston
Robert BoydWhen a band comes to your town, they always do a little shout out--"Hello Cleveland!"--even though from their point of view, this is just another bus-hotel-limo-arena-etc., just like the...
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