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Pearland High School vs HSPVA for the Championship
Robert BoydThe Bayou City Art Festival displays installations by Houston area high school students every year in Memorial Park. They call this the emerging artist program. I don't know how many...
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Pan Recommends for the week of March 28 to April 3
Robert BoydI've been in a hotel room in Arkansas for the whole week, so here are a few things I am looking forward to very strongly when I get back to sweet home Houston.THURSDAYGod's Architects by...
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Judy Haberl's Ghostly Garden
Robert BoydThe Houston Center for Photography has a very interesting show up right now called Unusual Garden. One photographer has a room all to herself. Judy Haberl's photograph Antidote, takes up one...
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Translucence: A Talk with Lucinda Cobley
Virginia Billeaud AndersonLucinda Cobley is intellectually engaged with her process of painting and printing on transparent materials such as etched glass and clear plastic. The artist possesses...
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6 More Comics
Robert BoydI meant to review a lot more comics during the time that Comics was on view at the Emergency Room, but I haven't been as diligent as I hoped. That exhibit is still on view through April 11....
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Comics at the Emergency Room
Robert BoydI mentioned in my last post that Comics: Works from the Collection of Robert Boyd is still on view at the Emergency Room gallery at Rice. I hope readers will indulge me as I publish a few...
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In the Studio with Alissa Blumenthal
Robert BoydAfter I discussed some of her paintings from the Core program show, I got an invite from Tatiana Istomina to visit her study where she produces paintings by "Alissa Blumenthal." I had never...
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Dean Liscum Gets His Hands Dirty
This is what that slacker Dean Liscum has been doing instead of writing more posts. Helping Kathryn Kelley looks like serious work, with actual sweat involved. And any work that involved helping Kelley...
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The Formalists at Project Row Houses
Robert BoydJürgen Tarrasch, Vines and Leaves, 2013, painted installationWe don't think of Project Row Houses as a site for formalism. We don't imagine that artists are going into these small reclaimed...
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Obscure Art Movies: Catchfire (aka Backtrack)
Robert BoydI'm always on the lookout for feature films that include artists and the art world in some way, like Age of Consent and Boogie Woogie. Catchfire (1990) is one of these. You can see it on...
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Houston Artists on the TV
Robert BoydHere are a couple of videos that came our way in the past few days. In the first, Michael Bise talks about his art and his heart--and how the latter's problems influenced what he does with...
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The Great God Pan Sells Out
Robert BoydWhat is this thing? If you want to know, check out "Chain Chain Chain" on Glasstire. Today I'm starting a little experiment of letting Glasstire publish some of my posts first. They get...
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Pan Recommends for the week of April 4 to April 10
Dean Liscum and Robert BoydThere is a hell of a lot of interesting, diverse art events and exhibits happening in town--way more than what we have listed here. Check Glasstire for a much more complete...
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Blogging ARTlies -- December 1994/January 1995
Robert BoydIssue four of ARTliesbuilt off the "degree zero" feel of issue three. The design was still mostly functional, but easier on the eyes than the previous issue. They continued to report from...
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On Video: Les Blank and Gabriel Dawe
Robert BoydLes Blank, RIPDocumentarian Les Blankdied last Sunday. Best known for Burden of Dreams, his documentary on Werner Herzog, he made numerous documentaries over the course of his career,...
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PAF is Coming
The Pan Art Fair Dallas will be held this Saturday at the Belmont Hotel. (The suite number will be announced Friday afternoon.) If posting has been light, this is why!This one-day pop-up show will...
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Liz Magic Laser's "Tell Me What You Want to Hear"
Carrie Schneiderphotos courtesy of Diverseworksphotos: Patrick Bresnan left to right: Shannon Buggs, Nick Anderson, Linda Lorelle, Lizette GarciaLiz Magic Laser's Diverseworks commission Tell Me What...
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Pan Recommends for the week of April 11 to April 17
Dean Liscum and Robert BoydA relatively slow week for art exhibits opening, but pretty heavy on lectures and talks. The Great God Pan Is Dead is taking its show on the road this weekend, but for those...
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Up-side Down People: A Talk with Kelly Alison
Virginia Billeaud AndersonIn an artist statement that appeared in the exhibition catalog MFAH published in 1985 forFresh Paint, The Houston School,Kelly Alison announced she had decided to allow...
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Painting the town Blue: Dimopoulos and Dean (and a few others)
Dean LiscumOn Saturday (3/23/13), I quietly parked my car on a side street off Waugh, inconspicuously crossed Allen Parkway, slipped down the grassy banks to a phalanx of crepe myrtles and...
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