Bill Davenport

The new KAXM Gallery, at 1135 E 11th St. in Houston Heights opened its inaugural show last night with a red carpet, a taco truck, and many books still on…

Prizewinners in the Lawndale Art Center’s catch-all 2010 Big Show were announced at the Friday opening.  Selected by juror Paul Middendorf, Co-Director galleryHOMELAND and EAST/WEST Project Berlin, $3000 in cash…

The new 17 Seventeen McKinney tower building in Dallas was illuminated with a skin of 86,000 LEDs simulating a waving flag for the fourth, making architects sigh, and commercial landlords…

“Divine Lords of Tonina Creating the Universe”, a 1300-year old Mayan stela at the National Museum of Anthrppology in Mexico city is finally finished! A broken piece of the ancient…

Three of the The Buffalo Bayou Partnerships’ boats were cast adrift Tuesday night by vandals, after an arson fire that destroyed the Osprey, the nonprofit’s pontoon tour boat and damaged…

Wants a new dress for Needed Fabulousness, a piece which will be included in Unveiled, the inaugural show at at UT’s new Visual Arts Center in Austin on September 24. …

ArtHouston 2010, the annual dog-day art afternoon, with shows at more than 30 galleries opens Saturday, July 10.  Venues along Colquitt, in the Museum District, the Heights and everywhere else…

Peter Doroshenko has been named as the new executive director of the Dallas Contemporary, replacing founding director Joan Davidow, who stepped down in 2009. Doroshenko is remembered in Texas for…

San Antonio arts patron Catherine Halff Edson died Friday at 71. Daughter of radio station owner Hugh A.L. Halff, Edson “methodically built one of the finest private collections of Japanese…

Corpus Christi City Council unanimously agreed to maintain arts funding, despite cuts in other areas. The city’s $668 million budget must be approved by the end of this month and…

Midland gallerists Richard and Mary Folger were two of the five victims of a small plane crash in Brewster County Saturday night. Mr. Folger started selling art out of his…

In Vanity Fair’s latest architectural survey, Renzo Piano’s 1987 Menil Collection in Houston is the world’s second best building since 1980. The poll of 52 leading architects and critics chose…

The Beer Can House’s fame is spreading spreading, too. The familiar Houston attraction was featured yesterday in a short travelogue in the Toronto Sun which tells the story of John…

The 25th anniversary edition of Kaboom Town, the major-league fireworks display in Addison, Texas, went off as planned yesterday, despite intermittent rain and everpresent mud. The event cost the town…

Recent heavy rains in Houston have delayed Staten Island artist Scott LoBaido‘s giant American flag painting, just finished atop the roof of the Lamons Gasket Company near Hobby airport. Although…

The five films in Matthew Barney’s  "Cremaster" cycle will be shown in Austin’s Dobie Theatre July 9-16 along with the premiere of Barney’s latest film ‘De Lama Lamina.” Not avaliable…

Born on July 3, 1738, in Boston, early American painter John Singleton Copley left his native land to pursue fame back in England, leaving behind charming and bizarre paintings like…

Advocatcy org Americans for the Arts has published its 2010 Public Art in Review, which annually features noteworthy public art projects from across the US and Canada. In this year’s…

Two months of time, a big ol’studio, a teeny little apartment, and all the cashola you need to produce your dream exhibition? Texas artists can now apply for ArtPace’s 2011…

Dolph Briscoe, philanthropist, Western art collector and former Texas governor died at his ranch outside Uvalde on Sunday. He was 87.  Once Texas largest landowner, Briscoe was the founder of…