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The Sacred within the Mundane: The Art of Wilo Vargas
Virginia Billeaud AndersonWhile previewing Wilo Vargas’s Hierophany and Pareidolia exhibition prior to its opening at G Gallery, I noticed gallery assistant Bradford Moody appeared fatigued and...
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Blogging ARTlies -- March 1994
Robert BoydArt Lies #1 -- 19 years agoAbout a year after I began blogging about art, Houston's only print publication on art, Art Lies, collapsed. I only read the last few issues, and I can't say I was...
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Knife and Sandpaper: A Talk with Bud Clayton
Virginia Billeaud AndersonBud Clayton reflects on the manner in which man made objects are modified by time--a fence becomes rusty for instance or a street curb is marked by black rubber--and attempts...
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Blogging ARTlies -- May-June 1994
Robert BoydARTlies volume 2, May-June 1994It was FotoFest time and a lot of the material in this issue reflected that. This was the year that FotoFest almost went under when Kodak withdrew its support....
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Pan Recommends for the week of February 14 to February 20
Dean LiscumTHURSDAYIt's Valentine's Day and what better way to celebrate love of the artistic community than with a film about Bert Long.Go to the Menil at 7 p.m. and see Bert. You'll learn that it is...
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Housekeeping & Comics
Robert BoydI want to apologize for not having written very much in the past few weeks. Thankfully the blog didn't go dark due to the efforts of Dean Liscum and especially Virginia Billeaud Anderson. As...
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In the High Seat
Robert BoydKathryn Kelly's show at at Art League, The uncontrollable nature of grief and forgiveness (or lack of), consists of very tall chairs, green wooden squares that look like picture frames, some...
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Blogging ARTlies -- October/November 1994
Robert BoydThings changed a lot with the third issue of ARTlies.You can see it right away with the cover--where the first two issues had been Emigre-influenced design orgies, suddenly we get a cover...
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Pan Recommends for the week of February 21 to February 27
Robert Boyd with Dean LiscumThis looks like a full week for artlovers--there's stuff happening practically every single day. He are a few things we look forward to.THURSDAYLiliana Porter, still from...
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Pan Video Parade
Robert BoydThe world's laziest blog posts are those where a blogger just post a bunch of videos he found elsewhere on the web. This is one of those posts.Kyle Chayka calls this bit from Portlandia a...
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Comics Art Tidbits
Robert BoydHere are a bunch of items and links have little in common except that they have to do with comics and art.Call for Papers on the subject of Fine Art and Comics for a proposed panel at the...
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Tooling Around Dallas in a Rental Thinking About Art
Robert BoydI was in Dallas last weekend to see the Ken Price retrospective at the Nasher Sculpture Center. The last time I was in Dallas, I had promised myself that the next time, I'd make a point of...
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Beth Secor Trees
Robert BoydIn 2009, Beth Secor had an exhibit, Riffing on Langer’s Lines, at Inman Galler. It consisted of a series of portraitscomposed of brightly colored embroidered threads. It was an interesting...
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Picasso Black and White
Robert BoydPicasso was a great artist and a prolific one, whose career lasted 70 years. This is great for curators and museums because it means that every few years they can put up another big Picasso...
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Dissatisfaction: A Talk with Marzia Faggin
Virginia Billeaud AndersonRecently two Houston critics published reviews of Marzia Faggin’s Dissatisfaction exhibition at d.m. allison art, which can be seen through March 2, and if I invoke them, it’s...
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Pan Recommends for the week of February 28 to March 6
Robert BoydHere are a few things in the coming week to check out, if you have the time. THURSDAYHere's an old one by Jonathan LeachJonathan Leach, Time Does Not Exist Here, at Sonja Roesch Gallery at...
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Hillerbrand+Magsamen's Stuff
Robert BoydI was in Fort Worth looking at art, so naturally I went to the Fort Worth Modern in its beautiful, austere Tadao Ando palace. Then I walked across the street to the Kimbell Art Museum with...
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Slide Jam uses the C-word
Dean LiscumThese days you can't escape the c-word. Every bodies using it and everybody's doing it. Celebrities. Students. CEOs. Some call it hosting. Some call it DJ-ing. But now even the institutions...
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Three Looks at Greg Miller
Virginia Billeaud AndersonIn the catalog his gallery published for Greg Miller’s Over Time exhibition, gallerist Scott Peveto said the art’s visual references to mid-20th century America engender...
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Sugarman in Austin
Robert BoydI was driving east in Austin on Riverside Dr. with no particular destination except to eventually drive home to Houston when I saw this:George Sugarman, untitled (in Austin), 1971, steelI...
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