Bill Davenport

In a blaze of premature publicity, Houston Mayor Bill White will announce Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet, an outdoor public art/fundraising event at Discovery Green this Tuesday,…

TCA, that wonderful, generous, and eminently judicious fairy-godmother-to-the-arts arm of your Texas State Goverment, has given Glasstire a glowing review citing its support of artists and art orgs, its improvement…

The Idea Fund is again handing out cash awards to "unconventional, interventionist, conceptual, entrepreneurial, participatory, or guerrilla" Texas-based artist projects. Information sessions are coming to Houston, Dallas, and Austin. Aurora…

Houston Public Library’s landmark 1926 Julia Ideson Building is expanding. A new archival wing that will include a public reading room and exhibit spaces, and garden is under construction and…

Diverseworks, Houston need art supplies for its Paint-a-thon fundraiser at Discovery Green on September 26. Using donated paint brushes, scissors, glitter, fabric, contact paper, and tape, and awls, groups of…

In related news, the Grover/Lama family and its neighbors at 800 Aurora St, Houston are trimming their posessions at the Aurora Street Flea Market and Airconditioned Imaginary Moving Sale this…

Don Bacigalupi, former director of the University of Houston’s Blaffer Gallery and former curator at the San Antonio Museum of Art has been named director of the Crystal Bridges Museum…

Galveston Arts Center in Exile 2 presents  IKE: the book by the Houston, It’s Worth It crew, appropriately enough in the storm-ravaged GAC’s latest temporary location at 2501 Market Street…

On October 6, 2009 artist Pablo Vargas Lugo will film 350 people flipping black and white cards in the UT stadium, Austin to simulate the ten solar eclipses visible in…

Houston’s Market Square Park, redesigned in the 80’s, is being re-designed! The Surls tree is being relocated, the under-utilized tile benched spiffed up, three new artworks, a dog run and…

The Meadows Art Museum at Dallas’ Southern Methodist University has acquired Sho, a 13-foot-tall stainless-steel mesh head by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. The 660-pound sculpture will go on display outside…

Philanthropist and Rice alum Suzanne Deal Booth has funded a new James Turrell "skyspace" which will stand in front of the Shepherd School of Music on Rice’s Houston campus. It…

Dallas City Council is contemplating the absorption of the city’s 20-year-old Office of Cultural Affairs into the libraries department, to the dismay of arts advocates who would like to see …

"Pieced Together," the all-Texas graffiti-art show that’s traveled across the contry all last year opens its final leg at Houston’s Aerosol Warfare Gallery Saurday August 15. CKC StART Street and…

UK’s Daily Telegraph reports an attack on the Mona Lisa: a woman threw a coffeee mug she had just purchased at the Louvre’s gift store at the bullerproof glass protecting…

Bill Arning, rockstar director of Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum (he once appeared in a rock video himself), will be teaching "How to see Rock Videos as Art" as part of…

Sixty houston artists explore "inter-connecting parallel planes of existence" by contribution two 12×12 paintings to Parallel Universes, a collaborative installation and panel discussion on the impact of art on quantum…

Dallas photographer Allison Smith and gallerist Barry Whistler were married Saturday by Universal Life Minister and Dallas art personality Tom Sale, in Rockport Maine.

Andrea Grover, Houston artist, Aurora Picture Show founder and queen of all things microcinema, has curated the exhibition "29 Chains to the Moon: Artist’s Schemes for a Fantastic Future" for…

You know that much talked about photo with former President Bill Clinton and squirrelly North Korean dicatator Kim Jong Il? In The Wall Street Journal, Eric Gibson is much more…