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Trenton Doyle Hancock's Mirror
Robert BoydThis was the invitation to Trenton Doyle Hancock's new show at James Cohan Gallery in New York. The lenticular card shows two images, one of the works in the show, As U Now Enliven a...
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Art Crawl 2012 (slightly NSFW)
Robert BoydAfter a few years, ArtCrawls start running together. I heard this year that the owner of Winter and Spring Street had a falling out with Mother Dog Studios, which may account for the...
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Sometimes a car is just a car (Not!)
Dean LiscumDebra Barrera's Kissing in Cars, Driving Alone at Moody Gallery is the sexiest show that I've seen so far this year.Bar none.Yet there are no full frontal nudes, no orgiastic tangle of...
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Bret Shirley's Waxy Break-Down
Robert BoydCardoza Fine Art has a show up called Wax featuring Bret Shirley,Lauren Moya Ford and Erin Joyce, but of all the three artists, only Shirley dealt with wax as a substance in his work. He...
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Depopulated Hopper
Robert BoydIllustrator Dean Rohrer has been playing around with an American classic. Using Photoshop, he has been taking the figures out of Edward Hopper paintings. His thinking is formal--do the...
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Pan Recommends for the week of November 22 to November 28
Robert BoydNot much happening this week what with Thanksgiving Holiday--but there are a few things we think you might be interested in.FRIDAYBlack Friday, Phillip Pyle II at the Art League (as part of...
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Wrapped Up In Books with Seth Alverson and Lane Hagood
Robert BoydCronopios installation view at Kaboom BooksLane Hagood is a bookworm. This was obvious when he won the Hunting Prize for a painting called Books I Have Possessed. Books have remained a...
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Rich People Things
Robert BoydAnton S. Kandinsky, I don't want to be Peggy Guggenheim I want to be Victor Pinchuk, 2009-2010, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inWe've been seeing people jump ship from writing about art and from...
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Pan Video Parade
Robert BoydI took some video of The Stacks (at the Art League) opening performance, but it wasn't as good as this video.I could have uploaded my video, but why not go straight to the source? That's...
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No Art In Houston
Robert BoydThat was Really Red from 1981. Really Red was one of Houston's earliest punk bands. The lyrics may be a bit hard to understand, so here they are written out:NO ART IN HOUSTONI turn my radio...
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Pan Recommends for the week of November 29 to December 5
Robert BoydAnother Thanksgiving has passed, and that means we are on the home-stretch for the year and that galleries and art-spaces are putting up their final shows of the season. And that means...
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The Middle is Missing: Cody Ledvina at galleryHOMELAND
Dean LiscumI'll start by apologizing to Cody Ledvina because I'm going to project wwwwaaaaaaayyyyy too much of my personal and political shit into his work and then I'm going to try and pass it off as...
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Transitions, Glad and Sad
Robert BoydJeff Millar Jeff Millar and Bill Hands, Tank McNamara, December 1, 2012If you grew up in Houston in the 70s, you probably were aware of Jeff Millar, The Houston Chronicle's witty movie...
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Goodbye Spain
Robert BoydManual "Spain" Rodriguez, one of the artists who drew the seminal underground comic Zap Comix, has died. He was 72. The great chronicler of underground comics, Patrick Rosenkranz, wrote an...
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Art Bloggers' Big Score
Robert Boyd Harbeer Sandhu, Art Writers grant recipientFor the past two years I have applied for the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant in the blog category, and I've failed to be...
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Pan Recommends for the week of December 6 to December 12
This is a relatively slow week compared to last week as we wind down towards Christmas. Here are a few shows and performances coming up that have caught our attention.ThursdayInterface: Artists and the...
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Continuum Live Art Series - Opening Night (part 1, NSFW)
Dean LiscumOn the last Friday of November, Continuum's Live Art Series Opening Night occurred at Avant Garden. The performances kicked off a 6-month residency at Avant Garden that will include...
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Selling Art in Hotel Rooms Seems Like a Good Idea to Me
Robert BoydMark Flood in a room at the Deauville Beach Resort (photo by Julia Halperin)People keep sending me this photo from Artinfo of Mark Flood's hotel room installation at the Deauville Beach...
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A Vuvuzela for Montrose
Robert BoydPatrick Renner, sketch for Funnel TunnelHave you ever thought, "Montrose Boulevard is pleasant enough, but it would be vastly improved by a giant vuvuzela"? Me too. Our long wait is almost...
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The Misuse of Kitsch: Michael Arcieri's Cold War Paintings
Robert BoydMichael Arcieri's new show at Avis Frank Gallery features a bunch of paintings of cold-war era imagery in canvases where three distinct images are arranged vertically.Michael Arcieri,...
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