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. Well, not only did both return this year, but a third satellite project has been added– The Pan Art Fair. Organized by Robert Boyd, author of the blog The Great [...]
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 Oct 18-21. The Pan Art Fair will be held in a suite at the Embassy Suites in downtown Houston, a hop skip and a jump [...]
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 three generations of Houston artworld figures and who all recently passed away on his Great God Pan is Dead blog.
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 by Otis Ike and Ivete Lucas is about Vietnam war re-enactments and featured a staged performance with fake soldiers creeping up on fake Viet Cong in a grass hut. The [...]
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 remarkable eleven years on the scene, this series of interviews on sustainable practices will profile artists, writers, and curators who broke out of the box, started an original project, and [...]
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 a white guayabera, panama hat, and black eyepatch. Robert Boyd, of The Great God Pan is Dead visited him at his studio over Art Supply on Main, and reports on [...]
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 stump carvings, leftover Ike-killed trees transformed into folk art by a citywide initiative. He brought a camera along for the ride, and catalogues a few choice examples, suggesting that, with [...]
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 saw this tortilla press for tortillas in the shape of cartoon white bread and it made me happy to be back home and excited about the art being made here. [...]
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 say about the first contemporary art fair in Houston. Here’s a roundup: Blogger Robert Boyd of The Great God Pan is Dead took time off from the opening festivities of [...]
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 way by offering to add 10% to donations for Skydive’s upcoming Many Mini Residency program. The proposed mini-residencies, all crammed into a couple of days, have their own Kickstarter campaign, [...]