Bill Davenport

Louise Bourgeois died of a heart attack yesterday in Manhattan. She was 98. The creator of influential and psychologically evocative sculptures, Bourgeois, like so many 20th century female artists (see…

Cash-strapped Brandeis University, which caused a ruckus last year in the museum world by proposing to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its colllection of moderist gems to pay…

Austin’s Blanton Museum of art has raised the $200,000 it needed to meet a challenge grant from philanthropists Teresa and Joe Long. The Longs pledged $100,000 to bring Matisse as…

Texas Tech University Press has just come out with the “Art of West Texas Women: A Celebration” by authors Kippra Hopper and Laurie Churchill. 150 color images in the $29.95…

Bob "Daddy-O" Wade‘s famous 1978 giant iguana sculpture has found a permanent home at the Ft. Worth Zoo (internationally known for its collection of reptiles and amphibians), and was unveiled…

Art Alliance Austin has announced the three Austin artists awarded  fellowships funded by "The Perfect Recipe: Bake Sale Tea Party," artist Paul Druecke‘s fundraiser that took place in April as…

The Dallas Museum of Art has been designated as a "certified cargo screening facility " (CCSF) by the Transport Safety Administration, making it much easier for the museum to ship…

A Veterans for Peace Memorial to Military and Civilian Losses in Iraq and Afghanistan Wars will be on display from May 29-31 at Houston’s Discovery Green park, near the Waste…

A mess of museums (art and otherwise) in Texas are partnering with the National Endowment for the Arts and Blue Star Families to offer free admission to all active duty…

NY Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff gives us a first peek at the Kimbell Art Museum’s Renzo Piano addition, unveiled today: after admitting that any alteration of the hallowed Louis…

Lawndale Art Center’s annual Big Show, juried from open submissions from art-makers living within 100 miles of Houston is coming up. Like a drop in spay-and-neuter clinic, artists drop off…

Nick Cave, performer and director of the graduate fashion program at the Art Institute of Chicago, is bringing his Soundsuits, wearable sculptures that make noise when shaken or stirred, to…

Georgetown, Texas’ Arts and Culture Board has donated $1800 to the Texas Society of Sculptors, to increase the prizes offered for the juried sculptors’ summer show at the Georgetown Public…

With the immanent departure of the Grover-Lama family from the Houston art scene comes the aftermath: the original Aurora Picture Show Buiding is up for sale. The hybrid church/microcinema/single family…

Thanks to the City of San Antonio’s Office of Cultural Affairs, artists in Bexar County are eligible to apply for a spot at the upcoming FREE Creative Capital Professional Development…

Folklorist Alan Govenar, author of Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound, has won a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to support research for and a…

In response to the recent specatacular (and still  unsolved) Paris art theft, Steven Thompson of Culturemap reminisces about his brief career as a shoplifter, and cases the most stealable art…

Last Friday, the Frisco Tea Party moved to block the construction of the proposed Collin County Arts Hall in nearby Allen by turning in a petition urging a reconsideration of…

A videotaped confession by Ernesto Ivan Martinez, the 20-year-old man accused of the 2009 murder of former Brownsville Museum of Art Director Barry Horn, will be allowed as evidence at…

Five well-known paintings were stolen in a classic Pink-Panther style art heist from the Paris Museum of Modern Art Thursday. Video cameras caught a lone masked burglar removing a Picasso,…