Bill Davenport

Ed Cooper died unexpectedly early this week after an accidental fall in his home. He was 61. A wealth manager with LPL Financial by day, Cooper was an enthusiastic and…

Portraits of little dogs, abstractions based on little dogs, photographs of paintings of little dogs, paintings quoting other paintings, with real-life painting of little dogs on top. It's like she's picking a scab.

Well-known street muralist Daniel Anguilu has branded Houston with his colorful, energetic pieces for years, but can they be re-packaged into gallery art?

Last week, Houstonia Magazine's Michael Hardy took pot-shots at some characters at exhibition openings, but his field guide is all wrong, except for the vintage glasses.

Portland-born, Brooklyn-based Keegan McHargue, whose colorful semi-figurative paintings are on view at the booth of Fredericks & Freiser, has been announced as the winner of the 2013 TX Contemporary Award.…

Here’s the fair, blogged at it unrolls at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center. Thursday Night Opening and VIP preview The always well-dressed Paul Middendorf was among the throng of…

The Euro-based aerosol fest comes to Houston: The sun was out, and a breeze was blowing the paint fumes away across the lake of roof-leaked rainwater. It was a beautiful afternoon to be on a ladder.

Mayor Parker did her bit, flanked by "Houston is Inspired" placards which kept blowing over in the breeze.

No alcohol, and no shoe-throwing: eighteen sweaty people listened as Geoff Hippenstiel talked teaching at the first Narrative Process at Alabama Song.

Randall Kallinen, flamboyant civil-rights attorney and part-time gallerist, is combining his two worlds: he’s holding a press conference tonight with the victim of an alleged police beating at his office/gallery,…

Feral hogs nudging and nosing constructivist sculptures as if they were ponderous smartphones for creatures lacking fine manipulative skills.

The Texas Biennial's Greatest Hits show opened yesterday at Big Medium in Austin. Glasstire was there, and If you were watching our Instagram feed last night, this is what you would have seen.

BD: Did you approach any more formal venues with your idea? MF: They wouldn't have said yes. Why would they?

Higher dimensions are creepy: the idea of unfelt, unseen planes of existence touching our own is like a campfire story told by PhD mathematicians.

Like 19th-century academicians, street artists take a jealous pride in their drawing skills, their mastery of elaborate proprietary styles, and their public reputations.

Despite their busy magnificence, the drawings' humble, work-for-hire sensibility perfectly matches their impersonal subject matter.

Houston artist Chris Cascio relays some recent words of wisdom: "Mark Flood is a wealth of good advice . . .that you shouldn't always listen to."

Andy Coolquitt’s Attainable Excellence at the Blaffer Art Museum is divided into two distinct modes, as is his career. According to the 49-year-old artist, the two are converging slowly, as…

San Antonio Express-News staff writer Elda Silva reports on Mark Schlesinger’s new mile-long earth-toned concrete “public painting” along Jones Maltsberger St. in San Antonio. Commissioned by Public Art San Antonio,…

Joe Bravo, director of the International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen since 2010, has resigned, leaving behind a 17 page open letter detailing the institution’s achievements, and outlining…