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Endings and Beginnings
Robert BoydThis has nothing to do with beginnings and endings--I just liked it (hat tip to Scott Gilbert)Goodbye Joanna. Hello Brandon. There was a slightly confusing news bit in the Houston Press...
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Continuum's Live Art Series - Night 4 (NSFW)
Dean LiscumBy the Fourth night of Continuum's Live Art Series, it was very clear to me that these shows don't have a theme. There is a show. There are artists. Performances happen. Nonetheless, themes...
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Landeros Pleads Guilty
Robert BoydUriel Landeros, in jail for being a malicious idiotUriel Landeros, who spray-painted a stencil on Picasso's Woman in a Red Armchair at the Menil last year, has pleaded guilty to vandalizing...
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Pan Recommends for the week of May 23 to May 29
Robert BoydHouston's art world is taking the long weekend off for the most part. (I'll be using this time to check out a few shows I've missed. Or I'll go to the beach.) But there is never a completely...
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Big Five Oh, part 2: Frieze
Robert BoydAfter we went to Cutlog, my nephew Ford and I had some lunch and then headed over towards 34th Street and the East River. This is where Frieze's water taxis were docking, and also where we...
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Tattooed Squeegee Boys
Robert BoydI went to two print events on April 26 and 27 A lot of prints I see these days art quite genteel and pleasant. Printmaking's evolved into a rather polite artform. But it wasn't always the...
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Picasso’s 1911 Accordionist: Some Related Thoughts
Virginia Billeaud AndersonIn July of 1911, Picasso went to the French Pyrenees town of Céret, and there waited somewhat impatiently for Braque to arrive so they could continue annihilating traditional...
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Even More Art From Frieze (some NSFW)
Robert BoydAdriana Lara, Os verdadeiros artistas estão nas ruas, 2012, inkjet on canvas, 20 x 40 cm at Air de ParisOs verdadeiros artistas estão nas ruas. "The real artists are in the streets." In...
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An Open Letter to Homeowners in the Memorial Villages
Robert BoydMeredith jack sculpture in from of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET)at AMSETIn Meredith Jack's studioDear Memorial Villages homeowners,Your big beautiful front yards would be...
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Brandon Araujo at Domy
Robert BoydIn the Fall, Cody Ledvina will be opening a new art space in the current Domy space called Brandon. So it was a little confusing to see this sign in Brasil (the restaurant connected to...
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Big Five Oh, part 3: Ellen Carey at JHB Gallery
Robert BoydLM, DC, Ford and I agreed to meet the day after Frieze in Greenwich Village. DC wanted us to see some photographs by Ellen Carey. We went over to JHB Gallery to check out this work. JHB...
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Big Frame Up in Austin
Robert BoydThis giant blue genie had nothing to do with Frame besides being across the parking lot from Big MediumEast Austin has become a locus for Austin's art scene. Of course there is EAST, the...
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Self-Portraiture through Social Media with a Side of Crystal Meth
Dean LiscumAs a self-proclaimed art critic and reviewer, I was curious about/envious of/doubtful that Devon Britt-Darby's exhibition, Art Criticism and Reporting, could command my (or anyone else's)...
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The TRUTH About Art Dealers
"People don't appreciate the creativity of dealing art. In the contemporary market, it is the dealer--not the artist--who does most of the work. Without us, there would be no Modernism, no Minimalism,...
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Big Five Oh, part 4: Pulse
Robert BoydAfter Ford, LM, DC and I left JHB Gallery, Ford decided he was ready to check out some non-visual art aspects of New York. He wanted to hit the big comic stores and record stores and musical...
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Bert Long's Overalls
Robert BoydI was at the Houston Museum of African American Culture a couple of weeks ago for an opening and noticed that in their front gallery there were a group of Bert Long, Jr., paintings and an...
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Pan Recommends for the week of May 30 to June 5
Robert BoydThere's a lot of stuff going on this weekend, of which the list below is just a small sample. The tough question is what to do Saturday--see all the exhibits opening in Houston (including...
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Big Five Oh, part 5: Nina Katchadourian at Catharine Clark Gallery
Robert BoydAfter Pulse, DC left us and LM and I continued to our next stop, our second apartment gallery of the day, Catherine Clark Gallery. Catherine Clark will have a storefront opening in San...
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Tom Arnold or Mark Flood?
Bill Willis, Mark, 2013, oil on canvasSeen inBill Willis: New Paintings at The Joanna. Goodbye, Joanna. I'll miss you.
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Cerling and Topek, Houston Masters
Robert BoydToby Topek and Penny Cerling are showing new work at Zoya Tommy Gallery. What they have in common is important--they are women who have been producing art in Houston for decades. But the...
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