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From Here to Afternoon: Labor and Formalities
Betsy HueteRevealing and the concealment of information: it’s a formidable issue that artists and curators alike frequently contend with in presenting to the public. Places like the CAMH or the MFAH,...
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Exiles at El Rincón Social
Robert BoydI want to quote the description of Exile, an exhibit at El Rincón Social. This ran on their Facebook invitation to the event.Exile explores the boundaries between individual expression and...
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Appropriation/Exchange: Posada and his Descendents
Robert Boyd Dennis McNett, Wolfbat Storyteller (Mask), 2011, wood armature, paper mâché, woodcut prints, 36 x 30 x 26 inchesDennis McNett in the information card that accompanies Wolfbat Storyteller...
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The Chimeras of Louviere+Vanessa
Robert BoydJeff Louviere and Vanessa Brown are photographers from New Orleans who exhibit their collaborative work under the name Louviere+Vanessa. Their work has a deliberately antique look. They...
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Pan Recommends for the week of November 7 to November 13
Robert BoydDamn, this week's going to be tough! There's the usual round of openings, but layered on top is that Cinema Arts Festival, which officially opened Wednesday. I've highlighted quite a few of...
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A Talk with Danielle Frankenthal
Virginia Billeaud AndersonRecently a New York gallery published a video of Danielle Frankenthal discussing her art in her New Jersey studio, and when I watched it I realized I had been ignorant of a...
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Whiplash In the Dark
Robert BoydAt this year's Cinema Arts Festival, they showed two movies by Meredith Danluck. Art Hard (which I'm sorry to say you missed--it played yesterday) is a feature documentary. North of South,...
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No Particular Place to Go
Robert BoydFor the last 11 months, the Art Guys (Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing) have been doing a series of events--performance pieces that often hearken back to their earlier work--to celebrate 30...
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Report from the Golden Age of Art Comics: Geneviève Castrée, Peter Bagge,...
Robert BoydI've read a considerable number of comics recently. I'm going to try to discuss a few of them every week, and I've been thinking about a way to organize them. "In the order that I read them"...
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Pan Recommends for the week of November 14 to November 20
Robert BoydAfter last week's movie madness, this week is a bit slow in comparison. It's a good weekend to catch up on art you might have missed--or just go bowling.THURSDAY This bacon bank was in last...
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Notes on Robert Motherwell
Virginia Billeaud AndersonThe beauty of the image McClain Gallery sent to announce its Robert Motherwell: Four Decades of Collage exhibition, which runs through November 16, inspired some brief notes...
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The Wacky, Wacky World of Ad Reinhardt
Robert BoydThere's a big Ad Reinhardt show not at a museum, but at the David Zwirmer Gallery. And it looks fantastic, as you can see from the Robert Storr guided tour above. I wish I could see it, but...
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Carpet Mannequins Vaginas Oh My! The Experimental Films of Scott Stark (NSFW)
Betsy HueteThis past Sunday at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, experimental Austin filmmaker Scott Stark showed several of his films at Cinema 16. It was essentially a chronological display,...
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Invisible Cities
Robert BoydRahul Mitra's exhibit at Hooks Epstein Gallery has a ponderous title: Race, Religion, Politics, Art and Sex at the end of the world. It's ambitious, I'll give it that. But no art exhibit...
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Report from the Golden Age of Art Comics: Jim Woodring, Gilbert Hernandez and...
Robert BoydContinuing my survey of current comics I've read, here are a bunch of comics published by Fantagraphics. As I've written before, I was an editor for Fantagraphics in the early 90s. I started...
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Tales of the Unexpected: The Katy Contemporary Arts Museum
Robert BoydThe Katy Contemporary Art MuseumVisual art in Houston is an inside-the-Loop affair. This isn't just snobbery talking here. When you think in terms of art places--museums, galleries, public...
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Fair Play at Gallery Longnecker
Robert BoydFair Play at Gallery Longnecker is an odd grouping of artworks. There are installations which are quite conceptual and there are pieces that are examples of old-fashioned artistic technique....
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Changing Horses at Full Gallop: Howard Sherman at McMurtrey Gallery
Robert BoydHollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt was famous for jumping from a horse onto a pair of horses pulling a stage and then dropping under the horses. He did this in John Ford's Stagecoach. Howard...
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Edward Lee Hendricks On the Move
Robert BoydI see this post on Swamplotand the first thing that comes to mind is, "Boy, whoever owns that house really loves Edward Lee Hendricks!" So naturally I leave a comment to that...
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