Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible
Forrest Bess (1911-1977) lived a hermit’s life in a cabin in Chinquapin, Texas. In the catalog for the exhibit Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible, Robert Gober writes, [...]
Satellites Orbit Upcoming 5th Dallas Art Fair April 11-14
For those of us who just can’t get enough contemporary art, this week’s Dallas Art Fair has sparked several fair-like events in its train, in [...]
Boyd’s PAN Art Fair Spreads and Devolves at Dallas’ Belmont Hotel
Robert Boyd’s PAN Art-fair, which debuted in conjunction with the Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston in 2012, has announced a Dallas edition, timed to [...]
Pan Art Fair
Last year, the Houston art fairs were the talk of the town, and most people were dubious that two fairs would be able to survive. [...]
TX Contemporary Spawns First Spin-Off: Pan Art Fair Set for Embassy Suites in Downtown Houston – Book Now!
Houston art blogger Robert Boyd of The Great God Pan is Dead is organizing his own art fair to coincide with the Texas Contemporary Art [...]
Spring Break Obituary Roundup
Apologising for the spate of recent obituaries, Robert Boyd has interesting bios of gallerist Dianne David, patron Toni Beauchamp and artist Mark Aguhar, who represent [...]
Vietnam War Re-Enactment at Houston’s G Gallery Opening Interrupted by Real Brawl
The photograph may be blurry, but art/combat blogger Robert Boyd got the shot as he reported on Saturday’s opening at G Gallery. The show, by [...]
Sustainable Practice: Robert Boyd
It takes a lot of creativity to make a new idea happen and quite a bit of sacrifice to keep it going. Inspired by Glasstire’s [...]
“Robert Pruitt: This Rejection of the Conqueror” at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas
W.E.B. Du Bois created the term “double consciousness” in 1897 to describe the way African Americans split themselves into two personas, one for each side [...]
Earl Staley is Back, and Blogging. Robert Boyd Saw Him!
Protean and prolific Houston painter Earl Staley is back in Houston, after his decade-long sojourn in Santa Fe, reincarnated as a slightly grayer figure in [...]
Boyd Blog Draws Galveston Stump Map, Calls for Houston Tree Carvers
New-car owner and art blogger Robert Boyd has decided to break in his wheels by cruising Galveston and compiling an online map of dozens of [...]
Artist Profile: Jorge Galvan
Three years ago when I returned to Houston from art school, I went to a talk for Project Row Houses’ Summer Studios. While there, I [...]
TX Contemporary: A Blogthology
In addition to Glasstire’s erratic artfair coverage, varying with the signal strength of the GRB’s wi-fi jamming, a number of other people had something to [...]
Boyd adds 10% to Skydive Many-Mini donations, putting the grass in grass-roots
Houston art fan Robert Boyd, whose The Great God Pan Is Dead blog enlivens the art scene here, is enlivening it in a more direct [...]
