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People Should Get Paid for Their Work
Robert BoydPeople should get paid for their work. That's the basic premise behind Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.). Their mission is a little less blunt:Founded in 2008, Working...
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On Choosing Not to Decipher
Robert BoydThe name of the exhibit is I'll Imply, You Decipher, which could be the name of any number of contemporary art exhibits in the past 50-odd years. Much contemporary art can be described as...
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The Golden Age of Art Comics: Charles Burns and Dylan Horrocks
Robert BoydThree books by Charles Burns Charles Burns, X'ed Out, 20102010 saw the publication of X'ed Out, the first major new work by Charles Burns since Black Hole. Right away, the cover was...
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"I’m Only 81": Notes on HJ Bott
Virginia Billeaud AndersonJust after midnight on October 23, HJ Bott contacted me to say he would very much appreciate my comments on Scribble Morphings, his current exhibition at Anya Tish Gallery. I...
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Betsy HueteRice Gallery’s satellite video space, Rice Cubicle, is currently showing a suite of six short films in an exhibition calledCreature Worlds. Creature Worlds refers to the playful, whimsical...
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In the Jailhouse Now
Robert BoydMiao JiaxinI first became aware of Miao Jiaxin when he had a performance and exhibit in 2012 in Houston. Now I am about to become one of his willing victims. He has set up within his...
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Pan Review of Books: The Miraculous
Robert BoydThe problem with art criticism is that it's a limited genre. It's pretty hard to do something new in art criticism without leaving the genre behind. That's OK for most of us because we have...
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Guy and Dolls
Robert BoydWhen I was a kid, I made models and built a town out of Legos. I've always been fascinated by models and dioramas. It's often an art that doesn't quite realize it's an art, as in the case of...
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Creatives in a Post-Industrial Society
Robert BoydI had been at the Asia Society in New York looking at Nam June Paik's robots. My next stop was a place I had never heard of, Pioneer Works Center of Art and Innovation, down in a...
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Some Minicomics. etc.
Robert BoydSo I was in New York a couple of weeks ago at Comic Arts Brooklyn, a small festival devoted to art comics. I bought a lot of comics there, among them comics I'd class as minicomics....
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Rewriting of Art History, Again
Robert BoydMany rock nerds (such as myself) can easily construct an alternate history of rock music, one that foregrounds hitless acts like the Velvet Underground, Love, Big Star and the Ramones, and...
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In Review: Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, at the Modern, Fort Worth
Paul MullanBarbara Kruger, Untitled (I shop therefore I am), 1987, Photographic silkscreen on vinyl 111 5/8 x 113 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches The artists included in Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s...
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The Pan Review of Books: 33 Artists in 3 Acts
Robert BoydSarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World was published in 2008. It was a success for two reasons, I think. One, it treated the art world as its subject rather than particular artists or...
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Domesticity with Chuck and George
Robert BoydMANUAL. Elmgreen and Dragset. Allora & Calzadilla. McDermott & McGough. Pruitt-Early. Gilbert and George. And Chuck and George. The latter is the collective name of team of Brian K....
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To Think That I Saw It on Cherryhurst Street
Robert BoydWhen I got an invitation to see an exhibit at Cherryhurst House, I had never heard of it. I assumed it was a new gallery or exhibition space, but the invite was vague. And that bugged me...
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The Pan Review of Books: Midcentury Modern Art in Texas
Robert BoydI remember reading Robert Hughes on how when he was a young man in Australia, he and his friends would have passionate discussions about the latest developments in modern art based on two...
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Real Estate Art: 1535 Milford St.
Robert BoydOne again HAR provides us a glimpse at someone's art collection in their real estate photos. The house at 1535 Milford, designed by Natalye Appel, is for sale.Swamplot reported on it, which...
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Darryl Lauster's Vessels of History
Robert BoydDarryl Lauster, The Inaccessibility of Various Things, 2014, cast paper, steel, period Victor Victrola, Tommy Dorsey music and electronic components, 47 x 31 x 19 inchesA plane circles an...
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My Favorite Comics of 2014
Robert BoydI feel a little guilty posting this list now because in the next 19 days I am sure to read some more comics that should have been in the top 10 or at least in the honorable mention list....
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Loners Need Not Apply: Your Everyday Art World
Robert BoydI literally just finished reading Your Everyday Art World by Lane Relyea, which I found to be a frustrating experience. In it, he posits the idea of the network as the engine of new art. And...
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