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All the Art Books I Read in 2014, In Reverse Chronological Order
Robert BoydI read a few books about art this year. This list reflects pretty well my interests in art: understanding contemporary art, recent art history, biographies of individual artists (real and...
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Visiting Bas Poulos
Robert BoydBack in the early 80s, with his dark hair, his demonic beard and his drooping eyelid, Basilios Poulos looked a little bit villainous. Imagine Dostoevsky with even darker eyes. It was an...
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What You Liked: The Top 10 Pan Posts of 2014
Robert BoydI'm always slightly perplexed by what gets read (or at least "viewed") on this blog. But I shouldn't be. It's pretty simple, really. There are a certain number of people who check in...
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Betsy Huete’s Top Ten of 2014
Betsy HueteSure, there are a lot of top ten lists out there, and in the last week or so they’ve come in droves. I’ve seen the top exhibitions of the year several times over from all different kinds of...
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Nostalgia Corner: Iron Shrapnel Man
Robert BoydI promise I will get back to writing about art soon. I just got back from New Orleans where a saw a whole bunch of art, some of it pretty good! But a couple of days ago, I made a discovery...
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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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Contextually Speaking: A couple of BLACK GUYS, Tu, and You
Dean LiscumIn December I attended two art events that captured my imagination, 24 hours at the Lightnin' Hopkins Bus Stop by THE BLACK GUYS, and Planned Obsolesce by Alex Tu. On the surface, they could...
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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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Let's Get Physical: Emily Peacock at the Hello Project
Dean LiscumIt's bad manners and it goes against all art world decorum but you just want to touch the photographic works in Emily Peacock's exhibition Soft Diet at the Hello Project. The works beg you...
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Deja Hou: Purple Time Space Swamp
Dean LiscumOn January 11th, galleryHomeland held "Homeland Soup", which served as the awards ceremony for the Charge Practicum Grants. Attendees paid $5-$10 for soup, entertainment by Daniel and the...
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HOU do HOU: Will the City Ever Recognize its Own Culture?
Dean LiscumOver a 48-hour period, Houston has let two cultural "icons" be destroyed. One, the Funnel Tunnel by Patrick Renner, was new and had regional attention. To be honest, it was a potential icon...
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Mel Chin: Rematch
Paul MullanMel Chin, M-16 (wound brooch), 2005-6, Precious metal, gemstones, 2 1/8 x 2 1/2 inchesNumerous institutions are currently highlighting the work of Mel Chin, who was born and raised in...
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On Not Writing
Robert BoydIn the past few weeks, I've hardly written a thing. The Great God Pan Is Dead is my blog, but only one of the past seven posts has been mine. I started a post in January on Prospect 3 in New...
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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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I’m Just a Simple Artist Who Travels: A Talk with Bas Poulos
Virginia Billeaud AndersonTo admit a visitor, Bas Poulos must take the time to unlock his security gate, which means that despite all the granite counter-top town homes that surround his house and...
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Flex School
Betsy HueteIn place of The Brandon is a new gallery, spearheaded by artist Lynne McCabe, called She Works Flexible. The gallery opened with its inaugural show entitled Sensational Landscape on January...
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Toppled Twombly
Robert BoydDevon Britt-Darby posted the following comment on Facebook today: "The Menil Collection's reinstallation of its modern and contemporary galleries is earth-shatteringly amazing. I don't think...
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Hunting Prize 2015 Finalists
Robert BoydHey, buckaroos, it's Hunting Prize time again, and they have uploaded photos of all the finalists to Facebook. In the past, Hunting has had controversy because of its prohibition of any art...
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