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Notes on Fasal Sheikh’s Photographs of Vrindavan at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
by Virginia Billeaud Anderson“Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor will there ever be a time in the future when we shall cease to be.” Krishna’s words caused indescribable longing...
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Real Estate Art: 4302 Colony West Dr., Richmond, TX
by Robert BoydThis listing has been circulating around my internet for a few days. Multiple acquaintances have posted it on Facebook. The house seems nice, but it's what's in the house that interests...
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''If that's art, I'm a Hottentot''
Robert BoydYasuo Kuniyoshi, Circus Girl Resting, 1925, Oil on canvas, 38 ⅖ x 28 ½ in.The title of this blog post is a quote that President Harry S. Truman made in 1946 on seeing the painting Circus...
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Summer Reading
Robert BoydSummer reading is always advertised as light reading, but a better description is "reading for pleasure". For me, all reading is for pleasure--I haven't read a book because I had to since I...
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Real Estate Art: 1046 Bayou Island
Robert BoydIt's been a while since I did one of these. This house, at 1046 Bayou Island, is just south of Buffalo Bayou on a little subdivision off of Gessner Drive. A lot of houses off of the bayou...
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Characters
Robert BoydThe Art League selected Trenton Doyle Hancock as their artist of the year this year. Because the Art League's building was damaged by Hurricane Harvey, Hancock's exhibit was held in the...
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Gorgeous and Delicious Fruits, part 1
Robert BoydIn 2017, I saw a play by Wallace Shawn called Evening at the Talk House. The program book included an excerpt from an essay written this year by Shawn, "Night Thoughts," a full-throated...
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I, René Tardi, Prisoner Of War In Stalag IIB
Robert BoydJacques Tardi encouraged his father, René Tardi, to write down his memories of being a POW in a Nazi prison camp during World War II in the early 80s. Some 30 years later, Jacques drew it as...
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Outsider Art in Texas: Lone Stars
Robert BoydOutsider Art in Texas: Lone Stars (cover art by Charles Dellschau)Jay Wehnert has been writing about outsider art, specifically Texas outsider art, since 2011 on his blog,Intuitive Eye. And...
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Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures
Robert BoydYvan Alagbé published Les Nègres jaunes et autres créatures imaginaires in 2012, collecting stories that were originally published in Le Chéval sans tête, which Yvan Alagbé co-edited in the...
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Rough House 3
Robert BoydIn my ongoing effort to read all the books in my unread "pile" (more like "unread shelves"), I just read Rough House 3 which was published in 2015. I don't know how long I've had it--a good...
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The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes
Robert BoydI've had this book for a while in my "to read" pile, but I was a little intimidated by it. But then I picked up a copy of Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties by Lev Rubenstein and as I...
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Some Comics I've Recently Read
Robert BoydI couldn't go to the Small Press Expo (aka SPX), which makes this year no different from the last 20-odd years. Reports I've heard describe it as eventful. Someone posted a blog post about...
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Recent Art Writing
Robert BoydEven though I don't do much art writing here anymore (mostly book reviews), I still write about art. Here are three recent pieces. Benjamin Terry, Family Game Night I, 2018, wood, paint,...
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More Comics Recently Read
Robert Boyd Coin-Op no. 7: The Doppler Issue by by Peter and Maria Hoey. (Coin-Op Studio, 2018). Peter and Maria Hoey are a brother and sister illustration team who specialize in illustrations and...
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Money
Robert BoydArt and money are inextricably intertwined. Over the years, as readers of this blog know, I've tackled these subjects frequently. What doesn't interest me much are big auctions and blue chip...
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What I Got at Zine Fest 2018 In Order of Size
Robert BoydZine Fest was held on November 17. I wanted to write about my haul, but it's taken longer than I hoped because I just got a new job which has sucked up a lot of my time. But here it is...
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35 Russian Poems
Robert BoydBack in August, I got Lev Rubenstein's Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties and started reading it. When I bought it, I thought it might be comic stories based on its title (and my lack...
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It's late 2018 and I Can't Stop Reading Comics
Robert BoydI am a 55-year-old man who should have outgrown comics when I was 13. I sort of did. I pretty much stopped reading them throughout high school. What was happening with the Avengers just no...
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Where are the Glasstire books?
Robert BoydTuesday night I heard a talk by Rainey Knudson, the founder of and, until very recently, the publisher of Glasstire. The talk was about Glasstire, which she founded in 2001. She mentioned...
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