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Chain Chain Chain
Robert Boyd(Originally published on Glasstire.)Katie Wynne, A chain of non-events, 2013, mixed-media installationKatie Wynne's A chain of non-events at Lawndale is an installation of various bits of...
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Pan Recommends for the week of April 18 to April 24
Robert BoydHere is some of the art we'll be checking out this weekend.THURSDAYForrest Bess, Dedication to Van Gogh, 1946, Oil on canvas, 15.6" x 17.7"Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible at the Menil...
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A NSFW Pan Art Fair--Dallas Memoir
Robert BoydIn 1951, 16-year old Juanita Dale Slusher appeared in a hardcore stag film called Smart Alec. She soon started stripping under the name "Candy Barr" in Dallas. She befriended Jack Ruby, was...
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Bits and Pieces
Robert BoydHave a fantastic Texphrastic day.Harbeer Sandhu got a Creative Capital grant to start his art blog in December, and has now rolled out the blog, Texphrastic. The title is a play on the word...
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Pan Recommends for the week of April 25 to May 1
Robert BoydLots of stuff happening this weekend in the Colquitt and Montrose galleries, but also in spaces we don't hear from that often. Here are a few of the things that caught our...
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Eye Candy at Inman Gallery
Robert BoydMy New Year's resolution was to strictly limit my sugar consumption. No M&Ms, no Jelly Bellies, no Gummi Bears, etc. I've pretty much kept to it, but I have to say that exhibits like...
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Some Thoughts about Eric Fischl
Virginia Billeaud AndersonThe fact that they have stomachs that protrude further than their breasts does not stop some women from unmercifully going topless on a beach. Eric Fischl records this...
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Linkarama
Robert BoydWhat else is there to say? More like this can be found at panels2ponder.com and even more at the Panels2Ponder Facebook page. Compiled by Frank Young, co-creator of The Carter Family: Don't...
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DFW to Houston: We're #1!
Robert BoydOur art is better than your art"RR," a blogger from the DFW area, writes a very succinct post about a trip to Houston he made to check out the Forrest Bess show at the Menil. He made 14...
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Continuum Live Art Series, Second Night (might be NSFW, depending on where...
Dean LiscumBefore Continuum's Live Art Series, Second Night on January 4, 2013 had even officially begun at Avant Garden, I almost committed an act of performance art myself. Heading east on...
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Pan Recommends for the week of May 2 to May 8
Robert Boyd& Dean LiscumHere are some but not all of the art events happening this weekend. Curious coincidence: there are three openings featuring artists named Regina or Regine (not to mention an...
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Forrest Bess at the Menil
Robert BoydForrest Bess, untitled, 1957, 9 7/8" x 14 1/4 inchesForrest Bess (1911-1977) lived a hermit's life in a cabin in Chinquapin, Texas. In the catalog for the exhibit Forrest Bess: Seeing Things...
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Pan Recommends for the week of May 9 to May 15
Dean Liscum& Robert BoydGroove to a DJ set, get in-vigor-ated, join a parade, and get strung along all in the pursuit of art. Here are some but not all of the art events happening this...
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Nothing About the Art at Frieze
Robert BoydI spent six hours on Thursday at Frieze in New York. There was art worth looking at and thinking about. But this post is all about people watching.Here's what I want to say to the people on...
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Richard Stout's Last Home Show
Robert BoydIn my attempts to understand Houston's art history, I usually see Fresh Paint at the MFAH in 1985 as the turning point--the last gasp of the dominance of expressionist painting in Houston....
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Villagomez, Roberts & Martinez at the Joanna
Robert BoydMiguel Martinez, I Knew You Were No AngelIs there a trend among painters to think of painting itself--the spreading of gooey colored media onto a surface--as unnecessary? I can't tell if I...
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Earth Drawings: Some Questions for Bob Russell
Virginia Billeaud AndersonHis graphite pencil lines were sparsely elegant. Expressivity entered by way of painted gestural forms, light and smeary but deliberately applied. Collage elements were...
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Pan Recommends for the week of May 16 to May 22
Dean Liscum& Robert BoydThere's a lot going on art-wise in Houston this weekend. Here's some of what we're interested in checking out.THURSDAYClarissa Tossin, BrasÃlia by Foot, 2009. Archival...
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Big Five Oh, part 1: Cutlog
Robert BoydSo I just turned 50 last week. My nephew, Ford, has the same birthday as me, and he just turned 21. Given this coincidence, I thought I'd treat him to his first trip to New York. I was there...
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