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Art Everywhere
Robert BoydArt is everywhere. Even outside my bathroom window.These billboards are barely visible through the tree branches outside my window. There's an image on the left-hand side of the right...
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What I Didn't Do This Summer
Robert BoydWhat I haven't been doing this summer is writing. I have an excuse--I moved into a new place, which has been a very time-consuming process. But I've also procrastinated. There have been...
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Comics Strips vs Comic Books
Robert BoydRecently, the New York Timesmade available a web tool, Chronicle, that would allow one to take a word or phrase and graph its appearance in the Times over time. So one could take, for...
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Four Recently Read Comics by Sam Alden, Gabrielle Bell and Peter Bagge
Robert BoydIt Never Happened Again: Two Stories (Uncivilized Books, 2014) and Haunter (Study Group Comics, 2014) by Sam Alden. That these two books are by the same cartoonist is somewhat astonishing to...
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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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Joseph Cohen's Use-Value
Robert BoydWhen one looks at Joseph Cohen's elegant paintings which occasionally are made with gold or diamond dust suspended in the paint, the last thing one thinks of is "use value." It's a Marxist...
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Real Estate Art--Bert Long Edition
Robert BoydSwamplot alerted us to the fact that Bert Long, Jr.'s house is for sale. Long, one of Houston's most important artists for the past few decades, died in February of last year. The house is...
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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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Carrie Schneider's Détournement
Robert BoydTonight Right Here, Right Now opens at the CAMH, featuring Houston artists Debra Barrera, Nathaniel Donnett and Carrie Marie Schneider. I have heard through the grapevine that there is some...
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Biting the Hand that Feeds You as Institutional Critique
Robert BoydWhen I posted the previous post, I wasn't entirely sure what it was. Now that I have seen Right Here, Right Now: Houston at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, featuring work by Nathaniel...
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A Visit to Bert Long's House
Robert BoydI ran a post on Bert Long's old house, now for sale, a few days ago. All the pictures in that post either came from the listing for the house on HAR or from architect Brett Zamore's website....
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Robert BoydHere are the best art listicles ever (that I could find on Google in about 5 minutes).Expensivist art (in July).People who buy the expensivist art. Artists who used to be into each other but...
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Who's Who in Jesse Moynihan's Forming (NSFW)
Robert BoydForming II by Jesse MoynihanI wrote about Jesse Moynihan's highly amusing götterdämmerung Forminga couple of years ago. The second volume, Forming II, has just been published (and you can...
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Pan is Five Year Old
Robert Boyd I just realized that Pan had an anniversary this month. The Great God Pan Is Dead is officially five years old. Now if you look over in the right hand column, you will see posts going as...
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Zombie Formalist Shootout in Galveston
Robert BoydWilliam Powhida and Jade Townsend, Map of the town of New New BerlinThis map greeted visitors to New New Berlin and the Nevada Art Fair, an installation by William Powhida and Jade Townsend,...
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The Best of Pan: Newsflash: Thomas Kinkade and his Art are Ridiculous!
[This post was originally published on January 11, 2011. I'm proud of it because it spells out a theory of parody and explains why this massive installation failed as parody. At the time, Diverse Works...
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The Best of Pan: The Battle of 11th Street in Which Shit Got Real
[This post is from March, 2012. Around that time, Pan was starting to get more interested in performance. This was mostly due to Dean Liscum, who has written many amusing accounts of the Houston...
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The Best of Pan: Green Blob saves Cello Fury from Naked Tutus (NSFW)
[Dean Liscum had been blogging for Pan for a while when he wrote this post. He had even started blogging about performance. But his humorous appraisal of this anarchic show seemed to prefigure his...
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The Best of Pan: Dallas Is a Jewel
[In 2012, I took a big road trip across Texas, visiting museums and srt spaces in San Antonio, Marfa, Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin. The upshot was a series of posts, including this three-part post on...
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The Best of Pan: No Seriously, What’s the Matter With Rice?
[This is the last of our "best of Pan" posts. Tough choice. Betsy Huete has written a bunch of good posts, and I almost chose her great review of the Wols retrospective at the Menil.Two other posts...
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