Bill Davenport

"Celia Alvarez Munoz" by Roberto Tejada, published by the UCLA/Univ. of Minnesota Press, has won second place at the 12th International Latino Book Awards in the Non-Fiction Arts Catagory. Ms.Munoz…

Be on the lookout for a 1500-pound iron samurai warrior sculpture, reportedly stolen from Heirloom Gardens in College Station in March. College Station investigators believe the sculpture may have been…

Dallas Artist Chapman Kelley, who asked the Dallas Museum of Art to sell his work back to him because he didn’t like the way it was displayed, sued the Chicago…

According to the NY times, a 14-page legal notice leaked from the public prosecutor’s office in Rome names The San Antonio Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art…

Core Fellow Leslie Hewitt is one of four finalists for the $50,000 Grange Prize. Co-administered by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musuem of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, The prize…

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center has opened a new annex in the heart of downtown San Antonio. Blue Star LAB at 114 Broadway opened its premier exhibit, titled Fire in…

Did you know that the explosive growth of the sugar industry in the 17th and 18th centuries inspired chefs to whip up ever more fanciful confections? By 19th century, desserts…

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced its 2010 awards to 16 artists.  Seven Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund awards, for artists between 15 and 25 years of age went…

The Judd Foundation has announced the that it is beginning a $30 million capital campaign to restore sculptor Donald Judd’s home at 101 Spring St. in New York. The building…

Austin’s Cultural Arts Division is cranking its fourth series of "Next Level" arts/business development workshops with "The Artspace Story" tonight,  Monday, June 7th. 7:30-9pm at the Austin Playhouse (Penn Field,…

Pacific Metro, one of kitschmeister Thomas Kinkade’s corporations, filed for bankruptcy last week to avoid paying  part of a $3 million dollar judgment to two former Kinkade Gallery owners who…

According to an article in Science Daily, a new study finds that caffeine doesn’t really work. Read what could be the awful truth here.

What will become of your digital self after you die – your web site, blog posts, Flicker account, YouTube channel? That was the topic of a recent "Digital Death Day"…

Dallas lost an important critical voice on Thursday. David Dillon, architecture critic for the Dallas Morning News for 25 years and a nationally recognized writer on the subject, died of…

This year’s Frieze Magazine writer’s prize, a hefty £2000, will be awarded to scantily published (at least in print) new arts writers over 18. The deadline to submit a previously…

Renowned East Texas Photographer and Lamar University prof Keith Carter examines his hometown, Beaumont, in a 10-page essay in the June issue of Texas Monthly Magazine. Carter explains, "We have…

The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft fuses fashion and craft on Friday, June 4, 5:30-8pm at the opening of "The Paper Runway," a worldwide survey of paper clothing organized by…

Artist Natasha Bowdoin will lead an animal-snowflake-paper-cutting workshop in conjunction with Andrea Deszö‘s "Sometimes in My Dreams I Fly" at Houston’s Rice University Art Gallery on Saturday, June 5 from…

According to yet another email from the prolific John Viramontes and the Council for Artists’ Rights, Dallas “wildflower artist” Chapman Kelley has asked Dallas Museum of Art Director Bonnie Pittman…

Footage of recently deceased gonzo actor Dennis Hopper’s 1983 Dynamite Death Chair performance at the big H speedway in Houston is now on Youtube! After a lecture/performance at the Rice…