Robert Boyd

About halfway through every painting class with Sullivan, we’d stop for a hot chocolate. They were some of the most enjoyable hours of my life.

While nothing is happening — a group of people are waiting for something — time is passing. A narrative is therefore implied.

When confronted by an artist like Newsum, whose work is filled with deep, personal magic, it seems miraculous that this nice, mild-mannered professor has produced it all.

"To me, artists would play a central role in helping to create a new kind of aspirational society."

They were exceptional artists and were a community of friends, and that seems like reason enough to put together this show.

'Trigger Town' is a series of huge eyeball kicks.

The whole show is a good inside joke about what painting and sculpture are.

What is the burden of doing art installations in the suburbs?

Honestly, we have no idea what any of this means.

When I heard about this show, I thought it strange that an important American artist is having her retrospective at such an out-of-the-way location. But UHCL once played unexpected part in the history of feminist art.

It’s reasonable to ask if ILYB wasn’t just a bunch of fun-loving party animals jamming together.

Given the drop in the price of oil, 2017 and 2018 may be key years for the survival of Houston’s art institutions.

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.

A lot of prints I see these days are quite genteel and pleasant. Printmaking has evolved into a rather polite art form. But this wasn’t always the case—look at Minotauromachy, on…

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…

Katie Wynne‘s A chain of non-events at Lawndale is an installation of various bits of crap semi-connected to one another. I don’t say “crap” in a pejorative way. I use it in the way…

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 of the color line. The…