Bill Davenport

In case your recollection of the world’s most ostentatious achievements needs updating, the world’s tallest building, the 818 meter Burj Dubai opened yesterday. It’s way taller than the 508m Taipei…

The West University Examiner reports the re-emergence of the traditional post-Christmas tree forts in Houston’s West University neighborhood. Apparently "amassing and arranging the trees into elaborate evergreen structures is a…

Barely one year old, Taft McWhorter Fine Art of Houston is leaving its Winter St. Studios space and moving to 2219 Canal St. near Minute Maid Park.  TMFA’s first show…

Spacetaker’s managing director, Jenni Rebecca Stephenson will succeed founder David A Brown as the Houston arts org’s head. Brown will continue as founding director and serve on the organization’s new…

Beginning January 6, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will charge half-price admission on used-to-be-free Wednesdays (that’ll be $5, please). The Museum will continue to be free on the…

Every day I scan the web for Texas-related art news; to help me in my tireless quest, I’ve got a list of likely bookmarks I check often. They are the…

Cynthia Woods Mitchell, patron of the arts and historical preservationist, died Sunday morning, December 27; she was 87. Mitchell was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2002. In addition to naming…

Moody Gardens in Galveston is having a Fruitcake Launch and Christmas Tree Chunk Saturday, January 2 in it’s west parking lot from 2-4 pm. For $1 donation or a non-perishable…

2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council. They will be cebrating next year with an "Art at City Hall" exhibit,  a filming of the Gator Country event at the Abilene…

The Austin Chronicle’s Robert Faires muses that it’s been a not-too-bad-after-all year for the Austin art scene, using the phrase "economic shitstorm" to describe the severe recession of 2009 that,…

Of course you know that the TCA (Texas Commission on the Arts) maintains a roster of touring performers, but now they have expanded their repertoire to include visual, media and…

From KERA’s blog: the second Dallas Art Fair, scheduled for February 5-7 has nine Dallas galleries participating: Barry Whistler,  Dunn and Brown,  Holly Johnson,  Kristy Stubbs,  Marty Walker,  The Public…

Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum has made its second acquisition of the year, an oil skech of Venice by Richard Parkes Bonington, and though it can’t top this year’s other…

New Year’s Eve is almost upon us, and Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle puts in a plug for Austin’s massive First Night street festival as a dregs-of-the-year destination. According…

Artist Darryl Lauster’s new website for the Sam Gray Society takes advantage of the web’s appalling (exciting?) lack of provenance to present a mixture of fact, fiction and fooling that…

Suzanne Sellers, Houston muralist who painted the Market Scene on downtown’s Market Square, was selected by the Dayton, TX City Council to create several murals for the new Dayton Community…

The Idea Fund has announced the winners of its second round of grants to unconventional Texas-based artist projects. Recipients of the $4000 cash awards this time around are Rudos y…

The Judd Foundation has begun the second chapter of its Guidelines for the Care and Handling of Donald Judd Works , covering works in wood. Titled, unsurprisingly, "Guidelines for the…

Reminder: The Rothko Chapel is open every day of the year from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.  That includes Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day. …

Plans to save  the historic Immanuel Lutheran church building in Houston Heights may include it’s re-use as a new Texas art museum, if a proposal put forward by local engineer…