Browse the literary fringes at the Houston Indie Book Festival this Sunday. It's an informal round-up of magazines, bookstores, publishers and non-profit groups all under (or at least near) one…
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Bill Davenport
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Ned Rifkin, former Under Secretary for Art at the Smithsonian Institution, onetime director of Houston's Menil Collection, ex-director of the High Museum in Atlanta and formerly director of the Hirshhorn…
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In case you didn't know, one of Houston's only claims to world-class fame, the Art Car Parade, is this weekend. Stretching into a string of related events, there's a Sneak…
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After its current, or 23rd, show, Dallas' And/Or gallery will be closing. Paul Slocum, it's artist/impresario says: "the gallery has now been open for three and a half years, and…
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One of Houston's most unique and influential expatriate artists, Bernard Brunon, is back in town to sign copies of the first monograph on his work, which tells the tale of…
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Green Mountain Energy, Texas' pricey, but renewable, energy provider has donated a 5.2 kilowatt photovoltaic solar panel to Ballroom Marfa, the contemporary art space in that pricey West-Texas art mecca.…
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About a hundred years ago, the Texas Spring Palace, an elaborate oriental-themed wooden amusement park, opened in Fort Worth. A year later, in 1890, it died in a chaotic and…
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According to myth-busting German art historians Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans, Gauguin sliced off Van Gogh’s ear with a sword, and both artists agreed to a cover-up in which Van…
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Acclaimed Houston artist Robyn O’Neil was chosen as the winner of this year’s $50,000 Hunting Art Prize, giving the erratic, much-maligned (but nevertheless much-entered) event a new gloss of artworld…
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Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird is finally coming back to UT for a little vacation after twenty years on the road. The painting will be on display…
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Dallas philanthropist Nancy Hamon has given $1,000,000 to UT-Dallas’ Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Museums to fund a series of books on the history of art museums, to be…
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KERA’s Art and Seek blog is making my job easy! Just yesterday, they reminded me that the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center has announced the winners in this year’s State-Fish Art…
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In an unusual announcement, HAA is now touting its maintenance program! According to a recent email, Synchronicity of Color, Margo Sawyer’s big block structure at Discovery Green park in Houston…
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Mayoral candidates Peter Brown, Gene Locke, and Annise Parker are getting up on stage to express their ideas about the relevance of the arts to the city of Houston and…
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Rice University professor Christopher Sperandio will talk about Robert Rauschenberg this Sunday in the latest of the Menil Collection’s "Artist’s Eye" talks. After his talk, Sperandio will sign copies of…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has just been gifted 289 photographs by the influential postwar Japanese photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro. Born in 1921, Yasuhiro trained under Harry Callahan at the…
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The Diocese of Texas Art Show and Sale, features the work of 55 Episcopal artists from many churches. Laypeople, clergy, clergy spouses and even a bishop! Sponsored by local chapter…
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Photographer Lesley Nowlin‘s L. Nowlin Gallery is opening May 2 in Austin’s West End in the space at 1202 W. 6th St. that was previously F8 Gallery. The new space…
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Today is the last day for Bexar County artists to apply online for a 2009 ArtPace travel grant. Up to $5000 will be spread about to assist the lucky winners…
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Painter James Rosenquist’s home and studio in Hernando Beach, Florida were completely destroyed, along with a neighbor’s house, by a brush fire on Saturday. The artist was uninjured.