La Reunion TX is holding it’s second annual tree-carving fiesta and open house on it’s land in Oak Cliff, outside of Dallas. The event will include a tree-carving reception by…
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Bill Davenport
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Thirty years ago, grafitti artists stole Krylon spraypaint from hardware stores. Now Houston’s Aerosol Warfare gallery has announced that it stocks "the best paint in the world," Montana Colors Barcelona’s…
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Rice professor John Sparagana signs his new book, Sleeping Beauty: A One-Artist Dictionary, on Friday, Feb 6 at the Menil bookstore, 6 pm. A collaborative work by the artist John…
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The lid is coming off the rhetoric against the proposed sale of Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum, and the froth is cresting: Roberta Smith slags Brandeis University in Sunday’s NY…
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San Antonio collage artist Henry Rayburn died Tuesday. He was 64. Known for his museum-like collection of curiosities, in 2006 Rayburn curated Juxtapositions at the Alameda National Center for Latino…
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On February 3, art meets historic preservation as Kinetic Decay an exhibition of photographs by Alex and Michael Luster opens at Bohemeo’s Art and Coffee House, 708 Telephone Road, in…
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The International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen is hopping: first accreditation by the American Association of Museums, then a $25,000 grant from Wells Fargo for "Science on a…
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On Wednesday, Feb 4, Dr. Donald Van Nieuwenhuise, director of Petroleum Geoscience Programs at the University of Houston will give an informal tour/talk through the UH’s Blaffer Gallery’s current exhibition,…
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The Obama stimulus package, at least the version the House passed, includes $50 million for the National Endowment for the arts. According to Bill Ivey, the former chair of the…
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Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center has named Jeremy Strick, ousted director of the financially swamped Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art as it’s first director in the two years since Steven…
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The Paperweight Collectors Association of Texas will hold it’s annual meeting on Saturday, January 31, at the Hilton Garden Inn Northwest, 7979 Willowchase, at Tomball Parkway, Houston. in case you’re…
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On Monday, our Texas legislature began to chew on declining enrollment in arts classes among Texas schoolchildren. Author Dan Pink, in Austin to address the Texas Association of School Administrators,…
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The Dallas Museum of Art scored three new works with the help of The Rachofsky Collection and the DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund. Marlene Dumas’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (2008),…
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The Los Angeles Times blogs that the Cisneros Collection of Latin American art is looking for a permanent home or homes. Will any of it come to the MFAH, with…
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Oh, and financially strapped Brandeis University is closing it’s Rose Art Museum and selling off its entire collection. Great furor ensues. Art leaders are shocked. Donors are Shocked. Critics and…
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Houston’s Menil Collection has selected the British firm David Chipperfield Architects to design a master plan for the museum’s site in Montrose. Chipperfield has already done similar plans for the…
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The CAM’s Board of Trustees elected Bill Arning, currently a curator at MIT’s List Visual Art Center in Cambridge, MA, as the new director of Houston’s Contemporary Art Museum at…
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Yarnbombing goes global: a recent article in the Telegraph (UK) descibes the spread of knitted graffiti to an island famed for wooly sweaters, a further example of the astonishing media-drawing…
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Houston artist/facilitator/framer William Steen’s memorial service at the Rothko Chapel is today, Sunday the 25th, at 5 pm. If you missed it, or him (he moved to New York in…
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Toby Kamps’ 2008 exhibition The Old, Weird America at Houston’s Comtemporary Arts Museum has received the “Best Thematic Museum Show Nationally” from the US section of the International Art Critics…