Bill Davenport

Dr. Gloria Groom, a curator at the Art Institute of Chicago will give a talk titled "Manet’s Modern Woman" in which she explains how Édouard Manet changed the course of…

Trans-national, global art star Do Ho Suh , creator of the enormous dollhouse, Fallen Star 1/5, you’ve seen plastered all over the publicity for Your Bright Future: Contemporary Korean Art…

San Antonio’s Witte Museum hosts The Long Shadows, a talk by Andrew Erlich, Ph.D.,  psychologist and nephew of Jake Erlich, one-time “tallest man in the world.”  At 8 feet 6…

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Jeffrey Deitch has been named director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, making the 57 year-old the only art dealer…

Native Houstonian fashion designer Selven O’Keef Jarmon will speak about his last seven years in South Africa and his current work there, including a preview of his his new television…

Art Bus, decorated by members of Arthouse Austin’s youth wing, Club Arthouse, in collaboration with Austin Artist, Cybil Guess, rolled out on new year’s First night celebration in Austin, and…

The City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department is looking for local artists who want to exhibit their work at art Windows of El Paso in the lobby…

Elias Duran, the lead baker for the world’s largest Rosca de Reyes assembled and iced the record-breaking pastry in Houston Saturday. Measuring 1520 feet, the so-called "king cake" was notarized…

In conjunction with the Round 31 installation, Mask Conspiracy at Houston’s Project Rowhouses, Jesse Lott is offering free mask-making workshops utilizing his El Pinatero method on Wednesday, January 13th from…

The most recent Texas museum to "restructure admissions prices" is Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art at UT. For the new year, adult tickets are now $9, not $7, with seniors,…

Austin artist Young-Min Kang’s Spaceship Austin Downtown Cruisers have landed! The two 20-foot spaceship models hang suspended in the passengers-only section of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, the newest additions to…

The Dallas Contemporary, ever respectful of city building ordinances and not yet possessing the renovator’s holy-of-holies, a Certificate of Occupancy, has postponed its opening, and the press conference for that…

Low-fi Toll-free was a year-long telephone project by Jennifer Khoshbin and Paul Lewis that presents short works of sound/spoken-word via telephone. It’s all ending in January 2010 with works by Alyson…

Bobbindoctrin’s 6th Annual Puppet Festival begins tonight, Thursday, January 7-9th, 8pm at Houston’s Midtown Arts Center. Bobbindoctrin company members and local artists will present new live works of puppetry, like…

Houston Center for Photography (HCP) has announced its 2010 Photography Fellows: Matt Eich of Norfolk, VA and Scott Dalton of Houston. Each will get $2,000 and a solo exhibitions at…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is looking for its 2010 crop of Summer Interns.  Undergraduate college students get an opportunity to learn about museum careers and $3000 for working …

First the Ft. Worth Modern, now the DMA! Just a few days after electing new trustees, on Thursday, January 7, the Dallas Museum of Art will begin charging regular admission…

Color field painter Kenneth Noland died Tuesday at his home in Maine. He was 85. Championed by Clement Greenberg in the late 50’s as a successor to the abstract expressionists,…

The new, reportedly as-yet-unheated Dallas Contemporary is opening its first show in its cavernous new space at 161 Glass St. this Friday, January 8, from 8:30-11:30pm with work by Los…

In it’s recent election, The Board of Trustees of the Dallas Museum of Art have elected trustee Deedie Potter Rose as Chairman, John R. Eagle will continue as President. Mrs.…