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Real Estate Art #5: 201 Shasta Dr.
Robert BoydDo you have $2.7 million dollars burning a hole in your pocket? If so, this beautiful house on Shasta Dr. in Hunter's Creek can be yours.According to HCAD, it currently belongs to Dr. Alan...
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How Many Artists in Houston Teach Art at Community College?
Robert BoydYes, it's another poll! I know several Houston area artists who teach art in our local community college systems, and I'd like to know more. I'm curious to get an idea how many of you teach...
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Pan Recommends for the week of September 19 to September 25
Robert BoydAn art fair is in town this weekend. I know this because I've gotten something like 20 free tickets to attend. But there is also a multi-day graffiti event in town, too. I suspect both will...
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Hey All You Uninsured Artists!
Robert BoydOpen enrollment for health insurance begins October 1. Fractured Atlas produced this simplified guide.
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What You May See at the Houston Fine Art Fair
Robert BoydI haven't been to HFAF yet. But I suspect you will see some artworks like these:Williams Powhida, A Subjective Classification of Things, 2013 William Powhida, courtesy of Hyperallergic.
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Reasons Not to Go to the Houston Fine Arts Fair
Robert BoydYou have a free pass, so you might as well go. On the other hand, why not spare your eyes? This is art that punches you in the face repeatedly.SHINY ART!Andrea Stanislav, The Vanishing...
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Reasons to Go the the Houston Fine Art Fair
Robert BoydSome writers have suggested that the Houston Fine Art Fair is full of bad art, but personally, I found lots to like there. Here's some of the good stuff.Pablo Cardoso, Lago Agrio-Sour Lake...
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Why Doesn't MOMA Have a Department of Comics?
Robert BoydI just read Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps, the lushly-produced catalog for the Art Speigelman retrospective that has been traveling around the world for almost two...
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Special Announcement Regarding the Pan Art Fair!
***There will be no Pan Art Fair this fall.***For a variety of reasons, I have decided not to do a Pan Art Fair at the same time as the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, as I did last year. The Pan Art Fair...
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Pan Recommends for the week of September 26 to October 2
Robert BoydTHURSDAYGaia, Mies Van Der Rohe at Charles One Center, Baltimore (Part of Legacy Project), 2012-13GAIA: Marshland, Rice University Art Gallery, 5–7 pm. I don't know what to expect from this...
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The Lithium Art Fair, part 1
Robert BoydIt's been a week since the Texas Contemporary Art Fair happened, and it already seems like a distant memory. If I hadn't taken so many photos, I'm not sure I'd be able to tell you what art I...
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The Lithium Art Fair, part 2
Robert Boyd(If you haven't read "The Lithium Art Fair, part 1," please feel free. These two posts discuss the art at the art at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair.)Ernest Jolly, Fetish Fistic 1-17, 2013,...
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The Pan Review of Books: Whatever Happened to Wolde Ayele?
Robert BoydThere are people like me who love digging up Houston's forgotten cultural history. For most people who ever have cause to think about such things, the juxtaposition of the phrase "cultural...
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Jason Villegas' List of Guys (NSFW)
Robert BoydSome people keep a list of who they've slept with. Some people reveal that list. Andie McDowell's character does so in a scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral, making Hugh Grant seem like...
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The Pan Review of Zines: Zinefest Houston 2013
Robert BoydZinefest is an annual daylong festival devoted to zines, which are DIY print publications generally produced by amateur writers and artists. This year, it was held at the Museum of Printing...
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Pan Recommends for the week of October 24 to October 30
Robert BoydFRIDAY & SATURDAY Summit Teaser #2 from Creative Time on Vimeo.CreativeTime Summit at Farish Hall, Kiva Room 101, The University of Houston, Main Campus, 9 am – 5 pm. This is a live...
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The Pan Review of Books: Recent Readings
Robert BoydHanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei by Barnaby Martin (Faber & Faber, 2013). This is a scattered book. Barnaby Martin is not just writing about the arrest of Ai Weiwei, but also about...
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It's Nice to Share: LaBier, Gendel and Lokiec at the Brandon
Robert BoydHouston Galeria watercolors by Jacqueline Gendel, Peter LaBier and Tim LokiecJacqueline Gendel, Peter LaBier and Tim Lokiec have studios in the same building. Individually, they have had...
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Pan Recommends for the week of October 31 to November 6
Robert BoydBusy week! I think it will be difficult for any one person to see all these shows, and there are probably a few I missed.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAYThistles & Currants, c. 1885. Artist...
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Happy Birthday CAMH
Robert Boyd The Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston turns 65 today. They celebrated in the traditional manner: abstract painting and cosplay.
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