The founder of "The Great God Pan is Dead" sent us this, in the spirit of our current Five-Minute Tours series.
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on which shows to take which relatives to over the long holiday weekend. “What do we do at Thanksgiving? We get out of the house,…
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The first issue of EXU, a full-color, tabloid-like magazine created by longtime Houston-based art writer Robert Boyd, is currently on sale for a measly $3! EXU is a tabloid. EXU is…
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Houston artist Brian Piana recently launched his new podcast RGB (A) that will, week by week, chronicle his process as he prepares for his exhibition at the Wright Gallery on the…
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The Houston art writer has paused writing and is publishing a new magazine of artists' works: "I’m not in love with my own voice. I’m in love with seeing things."
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The Great God Pan is Dead, a longtime Houston-based blog about art and comics founded by Robert Boyd, is launching an art/prose/comics print publication called Exu, and it promises some very…
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Houston already knows this, so this is for the rest of the art-loving, trainspotting Texans that keep tabs on such things: Last Sunday a museum goer at the Menil Collection…
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The Hunting Art Prize, the annual Texas-wide contemporary art competition that awards $50,000 to the winning artist, is now in its 35th year. Last month the open-call competition announced the…
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Job Post: Curator/Organizer of Unofficial Houston Art Fair (Fast-Acting Self-Starter Preferred)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonDon’t say you’re faired out already, because the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is coming to town in just a few weeks (October 10-13), although without the smart, goofy, affordable, and…
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Matagorda Bay was like a giant, naturally formed James Turrell. It doesn't seem all that strange that someone living here would start to see things.
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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, “Forrest Bess lived a life…
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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 addition to the fair’s own…
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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 coincide with the Dallas Art…
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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. Well, not only did both…
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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 Fair on the weekend of…
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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 three generations of Houston artworld…
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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 by Otis Ike and Ivete…
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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 remarkable eleven years on the…
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“Robert Pruitt: This Rejection of the Conqueror” at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas
by Robert Boydby Robert BoydW.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 of the color line. The…
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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 a white guayabera, panama hat,…