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Lateral at the Mission
Robert BoydDuring FotoFest, I find myself getting photo-ed out. I like photography fine, but so much of it feels similar--here are some interesting images, well composed, arresting, beautiful or...
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Cardinal Points
Robert BoydA few weeks ago, I was at Scott Charmin Gallery, deep in the East End, and ended up in a discussion with Emily Peacock about whether or not Scott Charmin was the easternmost gallery or art...
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Lonestar Explosion 2014 - Man Under Blue Board by Raindawg
Dean LiscumMan Under Blue Board by Raindawg at the Houston International Performance Art Biennale was literally what it says, a man standing under a blue 2"x10"x2' board. It was both minimalist...
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Real Estate Art: 2526 Bellmeade
Robert BoydThe house at the corner of Bellmeade and Westheimer is for sale. If you have ever wanted to live in River Oaks and can afford a $4.2 million dollar mortgage, this house is for you. This...
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Paintings and Drawings at Art Palace
Robert BoydJamie Davis, Unfinished Graph Paper, ink on paper, 11 1/2" x 11 1/2"Art Palace has a reputation for showing art in non-traditional media by such artists as Jim Nolan, Linda Post, Charlie...
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Sculpture as Playground Equipment
Robert BoydRecently they tore down and rebuilt Frostwood Elementary, which I attended from kindergarten through fifth grade. The new building is very nice, although it feels a bit grandiose. The new...
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Houston Art/Houston Museums
Robert BoydRandy Tibbits wrote an article guaranteed to get some artists' blood boiling. "MFAH and the Menil Are Depriving Us of Local Art" appeared in the April 23 issue of the Houston Press. The...
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Good Girls Bad Girls Damn Girls
Robert Boyd Karin Broker, Good Girls Bad Girls, 2013, conte on formica with leather bound book, 84 x 60 inchesWhen you walk into Karin Broker's new exhibit, damn girls, you see a room full of flowers....
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Be “More Nice” Bitch: A Talk with Karin Broker
Virginia Billeaud AndersonIn 2013 Michael Petry, Director of London’s Museum of Contemporary Art, published Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition, which reveals in...
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In New York for the Fairs day 1: Cutlog, Pulse and Select (possibly NSFW)
Robert BoydFor the past three years, I've been checking out the art fairs in New York that happen in early May. It's a little birthday gift for myself. I like it, but it's exhausting--both physically...
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You! Yes, you! You can be an art collector!
Robert BoydWhen we think about art collectors, we are likely to think about people like Eli Broad.Eli Broad (right)People who, unlike me and probably you, are very rich. Not that I have anything...
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In New York for the Fairs day 2: Frieze
Robert BoydDoug Aitken, I Think Very Deeply, 2013, hand-carved foam, acrylic letters and hand silk-screened acrylic, 94 3/4 x 65 1/4 inches(Day 1--Cutlog, Pulse and Select--is here.)Frieze again. Lots...
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Robert BoydI saw Keren Cytter's blood-soaked Rose Garden last night at Diverse Works. It was shot at the Rose Garden bar (up off of Airline in the greater Heights area of Houston), a place that Wayne...
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Slow Posting
Robert BoydA quick apology to readers for the slow posting. I'm in the process of moving, and it is sucking away every spare moment I have.I have a few posts in the pipeline, but if you're really...
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Beyond Physical: Sharon Kopriva Speaks
Virginia Billeaud AndersonShe spoke of visiting the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, and it was fun to imagine Sharon Kopriva examining the artistic possibilities of centuries-old Sicilian corpses. In...
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Pan's Philosphy
Robert BoydI'm reading The Essential New Art Examiner, an anthology of writing from the great Chicago-based art magazine, and a passage by Derek Guthrie, one of the co-founders with Jane Allen,...
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The Art History of Comics
Robert BoydComics: A Global History, 1968 to the PresentWhen I was an undergraduate, Thomas McEvilley taught a film class which he memorably described as the "art history of film history." This was his...
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Comics vs. Art, part 1,000,000
Robert BoydI stole the title of this post from a great book by Bart Beaty. Comics Versus Art, dealing with the relationship between the world of comics and the comics world, is required reading if you...
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The Big Show: Betsy Huete's Top 10
Betsy HueteAs always, Lawndale’s The Big Show is a giant conglomeration of artwork from a wide array of artists, the only real commonality among them being that they are from Houston. Many familiar...
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Art Outside the Loop: Mattress Mack Goes Abstract
Robert BoydOnce you get outside the Loop, works of art get more and more scarce. Fewer museums, fewer galleries, fewer public spaces hosting public works than inside the Loop. (The two airports are big...
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