Bill Davenport

It's collaboration in a nutshell: people working together, subtly directed by authority, with dissidents pressured to keep their mouths shut.

In celebration of the new year and Glasstire’s 15th Anniversary in 2016, we’ll be mining our archive of 3000+ features and republishing some old favorites. Here are two by Bill Davenport published days apart in 2014.

In celebration of Glasstire's 15th Anniversary in 2016, we'll be mining our archive of 3000+ features and republishing some old favorites. Here, Bill Davenport on Chris Sauter and Hills Snyder in 2001.

The Dallas Morning News has posted surveillance video showing the upending of a crane outside the museum on April 3, 2015 as it raised a section of a tent structure…

Provost Nowell Donovan announced friday that Dr. Anne Helmreich will be the new Dean of Fine Arts at TCU in Fort Worth. Helmreich taught art and art history at TCU…

Preventing awfulness should not be the aim of a public art selection process.

The Houston Chronicle reports on four new sculptures being installed at Hughes Landing, a new development in The Woodlands, developer George Mitchell’s suburban enclave north of Houston. The pieces are…

Bob Wade, 72-year-old icon of roadside kitsch was in Waco earlier this month, and stopped to refurbish Funny Farm Family, his first large scale piece of public art, reports the…

The Dallas Park Board approved a new statue honoring Dallas natives and blues brothers, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan for Kiest Park in Oak Cliff, near the brothers’ childhood home.…

Pedestrians are becoming more common along Studewood Street in the highly gentrified Houston Heights, especially around the intersection of 6th St. New bars, restaurants and a bike trail have upped…

Lawndale Art Center has appointed Denise Furlough, currently Vice Chair of their Board of Directors, as Interim Executive Director. Furlough will begin serving in April, in advance of Executive Director…

Nowhere else can you make as pointed a statement about commodification, while still being so wretchedly complicit!

The Art League Houston has announced it’s honorees for its 2015 artist, patron and lifetime achievement awards. Amy Blakemore is ALH’s artist of the year. Blakemore’s subtly curious snapshots, taken…

On Monday, April 13, from 12:30-2PM, three Dallas museums have gotten together to re-stage Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s participatory artwork, Tatlin’s Whisper #6, which allows members of the general public…

Photocollages in the ancient tradition. I wouldn't have believed there was another rabbit to be pulled out of that old hat!

Joe Lopez, owner of Gallista Gallery and the attendant studio/gallery complex in San Antonio has finalized the sale of his property, a lynchpin of the South Flores Arts district and…

Peter Simek, writing in D Magazine, describes the “lackadaisical display of orchestrated demolition” at Beefhaus in Dallas last Saturday, and wonders if the Whyte Window / Black Mirror / Black…

John Atlas' retrospective at Houston's Art Car Museum closed on March 28, but, with luck and maybe persistent nagging, we will be able to check in on him again in less than 26 years.

At a ceremony on Saturday morning, March 28, the Menil collection formally began work on a new $40 million  freestanding building for the Menil Drawing Institute. A plan for a…

Houston artist Chasity Porter’s art-space-in-a-bus will be coming to Gallery Jatad in midtown Houston this weekend bearing works by Houston artist Anthony Suber, in conjunction with Patrick Renner’s artist talk…