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Several Comics from Around the World
Robert BoydI'm still trying to catch up blogging about comics I've read this summer. You can see more reviews here as well as my guide to Jesse Moynihan's Forming. This time around, I'm looking at some...
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Books About Comics: Heroes of the Comics and Ed vs Yummy Fur
Robert BoydHeroes Of The Comics: Portraits Of The Pioneering Legends Of Comic Books(Fantagraphics Books, 2014) by Drew Friedman. There is a nice irony in the title of Drew Friedman's new book. For...
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A Gathering of Flies: Texas Contemporary Art Fair, part 1
Robert BoydFly at the Glasstire boothMy first impression was that it felt smaller. I don't have last year's program book, but I have 2012's. This year there were 55 exhibitors (of which four were...
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A Gathering of Flies: Texas Contemporary Art Fair, part 2
Robert BoydContinued from part 1.Art I Liked, continuedDavid Ryan, Stacks, 2014, acrylic on wood, 15 x 20 inches at Galerie RichardDon Martiny, Cayuse, 2013, polymer and pigment, 56 x 31 inches at...
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A Gathering of Flies: Texas Contemporary Art Fair, part 3
Robert BoydContinued from part 2.Art I Liked, continuedIt was interesting to see a pair of Louise Nevelsons (born 1899) and a Romare Bearden (born 1911) in among all the contemporary work.Romare...
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Art and Athleticism
Betsy HueteThis past summer, I had World Cup fever. I barely watch soccer on TV normally, and I haven’t really played in nearly ten years. But I used to play a lot: I played for about sixteen years,...
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The MFAH Has an "H" In Its Name
Robert BoydI strolled around the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday and checked out a show called Contemporary Art: Selections from the Museum's Collection. (It's only on view through September 14, so if...
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Frank Freed
Robert BoydThe Museum of Fine Arts book store is having a very nice little sale right now, and I got More Than a Constructive Hobby: The Paintings of Frank Freed an exhibition catalog from 1996 for an...
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Discovery Stories: Kindred Spirits at the Art Car Museum
Robert BoydWhat is outsider art? What is folk art? Do these two categories overlap? What is their relationship to the "art world"? These questions are on my mind after viewing Kindred Spirit at the Art...
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Rick Lowe is a Genius (Alison Bechdel, Too)
Robert BoydRick Lowe (Courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.)We aren't really supposed to use words like "genius" any more to talk about artists. "Genius" is one of those...
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Argument for the Elimination of Art Fairs in Houston: HFAF 2014, part 1
Robert Boydan art lover on Preview Night sporting an awesome shirtLast year, I observed that the Houston Fine Art Fair had some seriously bad art, but I also happily discussed the art I found...
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Argument for the Elimination of Art Fairs in Houston: HFAF 2014, part 2
Robert Boyd(Continued from Part 1)STUNT ART!Federico Uribe at Art Nouveau GalleryTo paraphrase Hennessy Youngman, that's too many pencils, therefore "art!"Wang Ziwon, Mechanical Buddhahood, 2014,...
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Return of the Asshole
Robert BoydNoted vandal Uriel Landeros (see this, this, this, this and this) returns with a new series of drawings he calls his "prison series." He posted them on his Facebook page. He describes them...
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HFAF 2014: The Good Stuff
Robert BoydOK, I was pretty harsh on the Houston Fine Art Fairhere and here. These things are always a mixture. You have the good and the bad and a lot in between. The problem with HFAF was that the...
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Coupla Guys Sittin' Around Talkin' About Art Fairs
Robert BoydI wrote about Brian Piana's podcast, Spill Some Stuff, earlier this year, and now I have the pleasure of being a guest on it. He wanted to talk about art fairs. We started by talking about...
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Confronting the Deep: Christina Karll Studio Visit
Virginia Billeaud AndersonWe were barely ten minutes into our drinks at Poison Girl when Christy Karll mentioned parallel universes. I knew at that moment I would investigate the art she is exhibiting...
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Everyday Geniuses at the Art League
Robert BoydOne of a Kind at the Art LeagueWhen it rains, it pours. First there was Kindred Spirits at the Art Car Museum. Now there is One of a Kind: Artwork from the Collection of Stephanie Smither at...
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The Diminishing Returns of Being an Artist
Robert BoydI recently read a graphic novel called Angie Bongiolatti by Mike Dawson. It's his third book. It was published in April and when he got his first quarterly report from the publisher, Secret...
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Some Thoughts on Quilts
Robert BoydI know some readers may get the idea that I'm leaving contemporary art behind and diving into folk and self-taught art given some of my recent posts. These are long-time interests of mine,...
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The Show is So Over
Robert BoydI recently moved to a new place in Midtown. One of my reasons for moving was that I wanted to be close to the artistic center of Houston. While art is made and displayed all over the vast...
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