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The Pan Review of Books: The Blazing World
Robert BoydThe Blazing Worldby Siri Hustvedt is a rich, complex novel disguised as an anthology about the work and life of Harriet Burden, a recently deceased artist. The conceit of the book is that it...
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Lonestar Explosion 2014 - The Artist Is Pleasant by David B. Collins
Dean LiscumI've been confronted with many things when viewing performance art by David B. Collins: shrink-wrapped suicide hotline conversations, naked strolling down Westheimer with a clothed...
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No Seriously, What’s the Matter With Rice?
Betsy Huete The building formerly known as Art Barn ready to be disassembledRice University’s recent decision to raze the Art Barn has caused quite the stir. (Well, possible razing—the Brown Foundation...
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Dallas on a Friday in March
Robert BoydThere is something about Dallas that makes me want to make grand pronouncements about it, to sum it up in one pithy catch-phrase. Hence the vastthree-partpost I did in 2012, and a subsequent...
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Robert BoydSo this thing is happening next week:CounterCurrent14 from Mitchell Center for the Arts on Vimeo.And you can see their schedule and featured performers on their website. It's weird that...
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Dallas on a Saturday in March (might be a little NSFW)
Robert Boyd(Continued from Dallas on a Friday in March)Where Friday had been sunny and beautiful, Saturday was rainy and cold. But that didn't keep the custom/classic car people from filling the lot of...
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The Pan Review of Books: Painting the Town Orange by Pete Gershon
Robert BoydIn the 1970s, mailman Jeff McKissack took a modest property in Southeast Houston and transformed it into a monument to the orange. He finished it in 1979. I recall as an undergraduate at...
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Waxahachie Postscript
Robert BoydAfter Friday and Saturday in Dallas looking at art, you would think I'd be satiated. Wrong. I found out that a gallery I had heard good things about was open on Sunday. This was the Webb...
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Artstroller
Robert BoydI was reading a review of the CORE Fellows show on Glasstire, and I was impressed by the reviewer's comment, "They offer no entry point: something beautiful or relatable or humorous to help...
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ReTemplO
Robert BoydThe Crescent, seen from insideIn 2001, Nestor Topchy dismantled TemplO/Zocalo, his compound devoted to art and performance. Located on rented property in Rice Military, the land there had...
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Grace Bashara Greene
Pete Gershon[When Pete Gershon wrote Painting the Town Orange: The Stories Behind Houston's Visionary Art Environments (which we reviewed last week), one chapter dealing with four Houston artists had...
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David David Smalley's Miniature Museum
Pete Gershon[When Pete Gershon wrote Painting the Town Orange: The Stories Behind Houston's Visionary Art Environments (which we reviewed last week), one chapter dealing with four Houston artists had...
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Dolan Smith's Museum of the Weird
Pete Gershon[When Pete Gershon wrote Painting the Town Orange: The Stories Behind Houston's Visionary Art Environments (which we reviewed last week), one chapter dealing with four Houston artists had...
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Bill Davenport and his shop, Bill's Junk
Pete Gershon[When Pete Gershon wrote Painting the Town Orange: The Stories Behind Houston's Visionary Art Environments (which we reviewed last week), one chapter dealing with four Houston artists had...
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Night Paintings by Guillaume Gelot
Robert BoydGuillaume Gelot Night Paintings installation, left to right: Dark Lands,Chair and DarknessScott Charmin's second show, Night Paintings by Guillaume Gelot, opened last night. It wasn't...
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Lonestar Explosion 2014 - bear by Jana Whatley
Dean LiscumImmediately upon seeing Jana Whatley's bear at the Houston International Performance Art Biennale, before I learned the title, I came up with my own titles:Relationship from a woman's...
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New York Women
Robert BoydThe phrase "New York Women" suggests many things, but in this case it is the name of a small exhibit of work at GGallery curated by Barbara MacAdam, an editor for ARTnews. The show consists...
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Big Daddy John Hernandez
Robert BoydSan Antonio artist John Hernandez makes wacky sculptures of cartoon creatures in bizarre vehicles like this one:Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Dragnut plastic modelNo, wait a minute--that's Dragnut, a...
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Real Estate Art: 2630 West Lane Pl.
Robert BoydSwamplot caught this one. This Afton Oaks townhouse is packed with art, some of which looks familiar.For instance, the blue-grey painting in the top center of the photo above looks like a...
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Here's What Happened to Mimi Pond
Robert BoydBack in September 2009, I wrote a post called "Whatever Happened to Mimi Pond?" I had been introduced to her by her husband, Wayne White, who had just built a big installation at the Rice...
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