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Hometown:
Houston
About Me:
I am not an artist, but I have a blog devoted primarily to Houston art called The Great God Pan Is Dead, and I am a collector.
Website:
http://thegreatgodpanisdead.blogspot.com/
Favorite Artists/Performers:
All time favorites: Ed Kienholz, H.C. Westermann, Robert Irwin, John Chamberlain, Jim Nutt, Karl Wirsom...
Houston favorites: Stephanie Toppin, Robert Greenwalt, Elaine Bradford, The Art Guys, Give Up, Jasmyne Graybill, Emily Sloan, Kathy Kelley
Favorite Visual Art Spaces:
Menil Museum, Diverse Works, Hiram Butler Devin Borden Gallery, Box 13, Project Row Houses
Favorite Performing Art Spaces:
Frenetic Theater
http://thegreatgodpanisdead.blogspot.com/2009/10/cool-school.html

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Robert W. Boyd

"Kienholz on Exhibit"

I rediscover this great documentary dating from Edward Kienholz's 1966 retrospective at the L.A. County Museum of Art.

http://thegreatgodpanisdead.blogspot.com/2009/10/kienholz-on-exhibit.html

Posted on October 7, 2009 at 7:42pm —

Robert W. Boyd

The Cool School

http://thegreatgodpanisdead.blogspot.com/2009/10/cool-school.html

This is a review of the documentary The Cool School, which chronicles the rise and fall of The Ferus Gallery in L.A.--a key gallery in the development of cutting edge art there. Check it out!

Posted on October 5, 2009 at 8:43pm —

Robert W. Boyd

The Art History of Houston

The Art History of Houston sounds like the title of an incredibly thin book (like The History of the Mexican Space Program or The Collected Non-Ghost-Written Writings of Sarah Palin). But it's actually a chronology included in the catalog for No Zoning, the show up at the CAMH. They also put it up on Wikipedia, with the hope that Houston artists and other interested parties would add to it. But Wikipedia apparently thought the subject too trivial to have its own Wikipedia article...

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Posted on September 30, 2009 at 8:30am —

Robert W. Boyd

The Human Tour rediscovered

Way back in 1987, The Art Guys created an enormous work of art--a human-shaped overlay onto the map of Houston, which they invited Houstonians to explore by foot.

Recently, John Nova Lomax stumbled across the one remaining relic of that piece.

http://thegreatgodpanisdead.blogspot.com/2009/09/enormous-forgotten-art-project.html

Posted on September 30, 2009 at 8:26am —

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At 8:37am on September 10, 2009, Michael Arcieri said…
Robert, thank you for the kind comments about my work.
At 6:16am on September 9, 2009, Rosemary Poole-Carter said…
Robert, I enjoyed visiting your blog. Were some of the photos taken at Project Row House?
 
 

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