Bill Davenport

The American Society of Media Photographers and other visual arts groups are filing a class-action lawsuit against would-be world library Google to stop the digitization and distribution of visual works…

This Friday, April 9, Aurora Picture show founder and "migrant curator" Andrea Grover is putting together an outdoor screening of cinematic works from the Menil’s archives in conjunction with "Leaps…

Richard Neutra’s Cyclorama Center, built in 1962 to house the huge, eye-popping circular painting of Pickett’s charge at the battle of Gettysburg, has been saved – National Park Service plans…

A symposium in honor of the 10th anniversary of the University Museum at Texas Southern University begins Thursday, April 8 at 6pm. The first annual John T. Biggers & Carroll…

Gary Carrion-Murayari, associate curator of the 2010 Whitney Biennial will speak at the George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center’s Boyd Vance Theatre, 1165 Angelina St, Austin, on Thursday night…

The Art Chicago art fair returns from April 30 – May 3, this time with a section titled Perspective: Texas, that they describe as "A special outreach and programming focus"…

In addition to his many other roles, Ted Pillsbury, who died suddenly on March 25, was briefly, the newly-appointed North American director for FRAME, the French Regional & American Museum…

Barton Barriers, Stephen Dubov’s roadside public-art installation in Austin, has strangely become a focus of right-wing indignation. Conservative blogs are abuzz, and the pile of orange and white plastic barriers…

Ted Pillsbury, respected former director of the Kimbell art Museum was memorialized at a service on Thursday at Highland Park Presbyterian Church attended by a slew of artworld luminaries, family…

Days, a prismatic grid of 22,615 tear-shaped chandelier crystals by San Antonio artist Jesse Amado will be dedicated in the lobby of San Antonio’s Central Library at 6 pm Thursday,…

Houston’s Blossom Street gallery is  opening a second space in the Woodlands. The new venture will be a co-op show gallery that will  host 4 shows/parties per month.  The grand…

Dallas artist Tracy Hicks will be a participant in an upcoming online symposium on "Visual Culture and Evolution" sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. It being the 150th anniversary…

The Easter Egg Hunt is a favorite event for art types, and there are a few this Saturday, April 3, around Houston: At 11am SHARP it’s the Devin Borden Hiram…

The University of Houston’s Blaffer Student Association is throwing their annual Red Block Bash this afternoon in the courtyard of the UH art building, Thursday, April 1, from 4 –…

From 4-5:30pm today, Wednesday, March 31, artists and curators will be frantically signing books in at the Doubletree Hotel Downtown Houston, 400 Dallas St. The MFAH bookstore and the Photo-Eye…

The Council for Artists Rights, an advocacy group based in Chicago led by John Viramontes, has launched a campaign to censure the Dallas Museum of Art and the Ft. Worth…

Next Saturday, April 3, Nameless Sound brings The British/German muscial trio Konk Pack to Labotanica, 2316 Elgin St., at Dowling in Houston. Described as "a gritty, writhing mass of electroacoustic…

Under Mayor Annise Parker, "the proud owner of several historic properties in city designated historic districts", the City of Houston has teamed up with the Houston Association of Realtors to…

The Cathedral of Junk, artist Vince Hannemann’s enormous south Austin monument, has been deemed a building, and needs a building permit, say City of Austin inspectors, who were alerted by…

Literary orgs Gulf Coast and Nano Fiction are co-sponsoring the third annual Hoston Indie Book Festival at the Menil partk this Saturday, April 3, from 10am-5pm. Promising "cheap books, readings…