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Invisible Curator: Tony Feher and the Art Guys
Robert BoydWhen I was an editor for The Comics Journal, I did a little feature called "Swipe File." At the time, we thought of it as a way of publicizing that common misdemeanor of comics, swipong an...
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"I Am" Is a Vain Thought: Thomas McEvilley 1939-2013
Robert BoydArt critic Thomas McEvilley died Saturday, March 2. It's hard for me to put into words how much he meant to me as a teacher and a thinker. I first encountered him as an undergraduate at...
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5 Comics
Robert BoydIn the lead up to Comics: Works from the Collection of Robert Boyd (March 14 to April 11 in the EMERGEncy Room at Rice University), I want to spend a little time thinking about and writing...
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Staple!
Robert BoydI went to Staple! last weekend. Staple! if a comic book convention in Austin devoted mainly to small press/independent comics. It's not as narrowly focused on art comics as The Brooklyn...
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Pan Recommends for the week of March 7 to March 13
Robert BoydHere are just a few of the art events this weekend happening in Houston and Galveston. THURSDAY Bas Poulos, Arcadia Vista 'A' (Large Version), 2012, 48x60 inches, acrylic on canvasBas...
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Pan Video Parade
Robert BoydI found the video below, "Inside the Library of Thomas McEvilley" by Michael Kasino on Vimeo. It wasn't embeddable but it was downloadable. So I hope Mr. Kasino won't be angered that I have...
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Mark Flood Teaches George W. Bush to Paint
Oh, wait. It's Bonnie Flood. (She must be Mark's sister.)
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Black Ghost: On Not Forgetting Bert L. Long, Jr.
Robert BoydBlack ghost is a picture, and the black ghost is a shadow tooWhoa black ghost is a picture, and the black ghost is a shadow tooYou just can see him, but you can't hear him talkin'Ain't...
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Brad Moody’s Cotton County
Virginia Billeaud AndersonA preview of the twenty-two works on canvas, wood panel and paper Bradford Moody is showing in Welcome to Cotton County at d. m. allison art through March 16 gave me an...
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Comics at the EMERGEncy Room
Robert BoydTomorrow I will be opening a small exhibit of comics art from my personal collection at the EMERGEncy Room gallery at Rice University (it's on the fourth floor of Sewell Hall, one floor up...
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Pan Recommends for the week of March 14 to March 20
Robert BoydTHURSDAY Ron Regé, Jr., The Cartoon Utopia p. 16, panel 6, January 20, 2009, 7" x 8.5"Comics: Works From the Collection of Robert Boyd at the Emergency Room (402 Sewell Hall, Rice...
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New Acquisitions: Julon Pinkston and Thomas "Tad" Dorgan
Robert BoydIt's been a while since I did one of these. But bonus time hit and I decided to celebrate by buying some art. It took me a while to find some art I was willing to commit to that I could...
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Nick Kersulis at Devin Borden
Robert BoydNicholas Kersulis, Within Without the Space of a Corner (He Spent Days Wandering with Headphones on, Lest He Forget His Heritage), 2010-2013, Oil on jute on panel; framed c-print mounted on...
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Art Thievery, Censorship and Airship Links
Robert BoydArt thief in actionThis amazing video was posted by the "Queenstown Police," a Facebook page where videos and still images of crimes are posted. They write, "This isn't to report crimes! Its...
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Harif Guzman: A Closer Look
Virginia Billeaud AndersonWithin Harif Guzman’s portfolio are artworks that reflect that which is exhilarating and soul-destroying about New York. Examples can be found in his collage series “Uptown...
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Pan Recommends for the week of March 21 to March 27
Robert BoydDo you want to see every art event this week? Sorry, you can't. This is one of the most crowded art weekends I've seen in Houston. In addition to the NCECA conference and the Bayou City Art...
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Jolly Good Core Fellows
Robert BoydThe annual Core exhibit is always a bit incoherent. After all, the only thing that links these artists is that they happen to be in the same residency program at the same time. But one can...
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The Mandarin and the Street Artist
Robert BoydOne of the coolest and yet most unexpected collaborations I've seen recently is Skywriting by Aaron Parazette and Daniel Anguilu on the side of Lawndale.Daniel Anguilu and Aaron Parazette,...
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Ann Wood's Plastic Peaceable Kingdom
Robert BoydThe last time I wrote about Ann Wood's sculptures of animals, I assumed that there was some political or ethical meaning underlying them. And there may be, but looking at her installation...
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Hideous Mutant Freaks
Robert BoydThe last time I saw Debra Broz's work was in the New Art in Austin show in 2011. At the time, I thought it was a little overwhelmed in its museum setting, but I found it creepily charming....
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