Charles Saatchi, impresario behind the "YBA" art renaissance in Britain, has announced that he will donate his London art gallery and 200 artworks worth an estimated $37 million to the…
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Bill Davenport
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SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts is adding a PhD program in art history, and has hired away UT Austin’s Latin American and Latino art expert Dr. Roberto Tejada as…
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Houston artspace Labotanica is accepting applications for School of Latitudes, a four-week creative residency beginning in August 2010. Participants will get studio visits, do workshops, hear lectures/ discussions by cultural…
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Protesters slinging molasses from canisters marked with the British Petroleum corporate logo made a sticky mess of the Tate Britain Summer party in London. Eight art activists from the group…
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Kristina Van Dyke and Andrea Grover has each received Curatorial Research Fellowships from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Van Dyke, a curator at the Menil Collection, will undertake research into technology…
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Houston artist Marco Villegas is about to begin installing his solo show at the Art League in Houston. He will be at the gallery all day, every day and all…
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Artist and activist Ashley Hunt will narrate "Notes on the Emptying of a City" at 7pm on July 1 at The Eldorado Ballroom in Houston. Hunt’s deconstructed documentary, part slideshow,…
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Houston city council has temporarily given the wussy historic preservation ordinance some baby teeth, diabling the automatic waiver provision that allows Houstonians to build whatever they want after a 90-day…
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According to another non-binding, self-selected online poll, this time sponsored Reliant Park in Houston, people want to see the Astrodome preserved, at least as a shell, rather than flattened into…
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Artpace has given $5000 in travel grants to San Antonio-based artists Ruth Buentello, Naomi Wanjiku, and Mark Hogensen. Buentello will head to Italy and France to study the work of…
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Artpace has given $5000 in travel grants to San Antonio-based artists Ruth Buentello, Naomi Wanjiku, and Mark Hogensen. Buentello will head to Italy and France to study the work of…
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Archdruids and English Heritage are both disappointed as funding for new Stonehenge visitors’ center is cut by a strapped British government. Last year Gordon Brown promised £10m towards a glass…
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Cancel your plane reservations! The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced a loan of 50 ultra-choice French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art in Washington,…
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In an effort to curb illegal graffiti, San Antonio has initiated its Action for Art class, teaching graffiti artists legal and profitable ways to do what was once free and…
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The International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen adds another wonder to its sculpture park, already home to the largest (replica) Olmec head outside of Mexico: a 124-foot, 7-ton…
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Houston painter and educator Ann Marie Hopkins lost as many as a hundred paintings when her attic caught fire Tuesday. Hopkins, former art teacher at Woodlands High School, and currently…
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Arts patron Jane Blaffer Owen died Monday in Houston. She was 95. Daughter of Exxon founder Robert Lee Blaffer and granddaughter of Texaco founder William T. Campbell, Owen gave major…
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A super-streamilined custom Mercedes 300 Limo by Florida art cartist Antti Rahko is for sale on eBay motors. Winner of the the first place award in the 2007 and 2009…
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Artfest International, a Dallas-based company dedicated to "revolutionizing the sale of art" announced yesterday that it had "received over $1.5 million in equity financing since 2009." Claiming assets of 5.8…
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Charles Birnbaum, founder of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, sees the current economic downturn as a chance to pause and reconsider the many aggressive museum exapansions happening or proposed. Criticizing Daniel…