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Pan Recommends for the week of November 21 to November 27
Robert BoydKind of a lot of stuff happening this weekend. When was the last time Lawndale and the Art League had an opening on the same night? I guess with Thanksgiving next week, a lot of events have...
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Another Year, Another Artcrawl
Robert BoydI've been going to Artcrawl for several years. Some things are always the same, evolving slightly over the years. Like this little dilapidated house at the corner of McKee and Nance.That's...
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Pan Recommends for the week of November 28 to December 4
Robert BoydI figured that there'd be nothing happening artwise this weekend. Still it's slow compared to the average week, as you might expect. The Museum of Fine Arts, CAMH and the Menil are open...
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The Madonna in South Louisiana: Notes on Lynda Frese
Virginia Billeaud AndersonLynda Frese wrote recently to announce her photo collage paintings are in this year’s International Contemporary Art Exhibition at Gallery Le Logge in Assisi’s Piazza del...
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Paint, Ink, Photo, Text: A Wols Retrospective
Betsy HueteThere’s a curious pairing going on at the Menil right now. On the one hand, there is the Luc Tuymans show Nice, a title that coolly represents the works’ vacuous draining of life and...
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Phillip Guston and Jackson Pollock Were Expelled From High School
Robert Boyd[Philip] Guston and [Jackson] Pollock were also politically active in their support of art education at a school that was fast becoming a hotbed of talented high school athletes. Their...
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In Review - Waltercio Caldas: The Nearest Air, at the Blanton
Paul MullanBrazilian artist Waltercio Caldas, long influential in his home country, is less known in the United States. Co-organized by the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin,...
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Nothing's Changed
The art crowd consists of 200 visual artists, gallery owners, curators, architects, historians, writers, critics, musicians, dancers, patrons, students, hangers-on, and dilettanti who bump into each...
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LOKALKOLORIT: Representation, Repetition, and Punctum
Betsy Huete Philosopher Roland Barthes coined the term “punctum” in his final publication Camera Lucida in 1980. In enumerating the term, he was in effect making an argument against the sole...
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Something to do when you have 4 hours and 48 minutes free
Robert BoydListen toFor Philip Gustonby Morton Feldman, performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble. (Hat tip to Alex Ross.)Philip Guston, Friend--to M.F., 1978In the 50s, Morton Feldman was Philip Guston's...
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How To Dispose of 5000 Works of Art: Herb and Dorothy 50 x 50
Robert BoydThe collector's mania sneaks up on you. I'm in my super-cluttered bedroom looking around, and there are 51 visible artworks (and many more in portfolios on my bookshelves as well as artworks...
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Report from the Golden Age of Art Comics: Kuš!
Robert BoydRenata Gąsiorowska, Jungle Night (Mini Kuš! #21) cover, November 2013Latvia is a tiny Baltic state, intermittently independent but historically claimed by nearby states like Poland,...
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UH Sculpture: Performance and a Precipice
Betsy HueteI’m a sculpture student—a grad student at that. Bogged down, stressed out, aloof and largely unaware of anything except the date of the next critique, I spend most of my time wandering...
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Top 10 Posts of 2013: You People Have Dirty Minds
Robert BoydWhat posts got lots of page views this past year? Dirty ones. It makes me want to put "NSFW" in all my post titles. To be honest, it's a little depressing. I want great posts like...
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2013: A Highly Personal Top 10 List
Robert BoydUsually top 10 lists are about one type of thing. Top 10 movies, top 10 books, etc. In the past we've run best-of lists for visual art and performance art. This year, I decided to follow...
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Betsy Huete’s Top Ten of 2013
Betsy HueteWith a city as large and diverse and bustling with artistic activity as Houston, it’s easy to stumble upon great work. So as anyone can imagine, it was not difficult for me to come up with a...
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Burnt Plastic Abstraction by Gil Rocha
Robert BoydAbstract art is really hot right now. The CAMH has just completed three abstract shows and is in the process of initiating three more (although one of them, The Rites of Spring, doesn't...
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Carlos Hernandez's Gig Posters
Robert BoydLive and in Person at the Rice Media Center is a show of gig posters by silkscreen printmaker and Burning Bones Press honcho Carlos Hernandez. The show features walls full of bold, colorful...
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The Bart Book of the Dead
Robert BoydThe catalog says it best: "Sketch Klubb is a group of friends who get together every other Saturday morning to draw." It was 12 guys, but one of them, Michael Harwell, recently died. 1,000...
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Autumn Knight invokes Robert Rauschenberg at the GAR
Dean LiscumI wasn't sure what to expect when I drove to Galveston to see Autumn Knight perform The Ghost of Robert Rauschenberg, a piece conceptualized by Eric Schnell and Sallie Barbee, at the...
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