Bill Davenport

I didn’t know the man, but judging by the outpouring of love and dedication to his memory, I wish I had. Surrounded by friends, Manny Castillo meant a lot to…

San Antonio youth theater Teatro ALAS is holding open studio try-outs Saturday, January 17th and 24th. Teatro ALAS is Say Si‘s new program providing students interested in the performing arts…

William Camfield, professor emeritus of art history at Rice University and Josef Helfenstein, curator of the Menil’s current Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie, converse, confer and confabulate…

Say Si, San Antonio’s award-winning FREE arts enrichment program, is recruiting committed students in film, visual arts and theater from January 12-24. Their High School Visual Arts Program serves grades…

The Idea Fund has announced it’s first round of Houston grantees: Kevin Curry, Mary Margaret Hansen, Kara Hearn, J. Hill, Ayanna Jolivet McCloud, Cody Ledvina and Brian Rod, Benjamin Mason,…

Beloved San Antonio community activist, drummer, and arts advocate Manny Castillo, 40, died on Tuesday, January 6, of cancer. As co-founder and executive director of San Anto Cultural Arts, he…

William Steen, artist, collector, curator, and mystic, died of pancreatic cancer on December 20 in New York, where he has lived since 2001. Long time framer at the Menil Collection,…

Houston’s Discovery Green park is hosting Houston’s "First Annual Magnificent Seven All Out Ice Sculpting" contest on Saturday, January 10. Beginning at 10 am, Seven selected artists will carve seven…

For the first time since 1997, The Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont has achieved accreditation from the American Association of Museums, proving it’s up to snuff on stuff…

The Blanton Museum of Art has announced a new series of fifty-minute tours built around broad, commonsense themes like "What is America?", "Symbol and Allegory: the Hidden Language of Art"…

In the current economic crisis, even that Pharaoh of box-office stuffers, King Tut, has begun to wilt. The Dallas Museum of Art is offering dicount tickets to the Boy King’s…

A new mural by Austin artist Angel Quesada, known for his mural/signage work on the walls of the Mexic-Arte museum, graces the wall of the Austin State School  at 35th…

Recent psychological studies confirm it- people who contribute to online sites like Youtube or Wikipedia tend to be grumpy and have low social skills. It is theorized that they are…

Despite its name, The Harpo Foundation of Kumquat Avenue, Coconut Grove, Florida, is no joke. It hands out money to non-profits that commission new art from under-recognized artists, and last…

Galleria Lazzara, a new pay-to-play gallery off 290 in Houston will open the fourth of it’s monthly shows on January 8, featuring works by five artists who, according to their…

The Galveston Island Convention and Visitor’s Bureau wants YOU to design the Mardi Gras poster for this year’s 98th event on February 13-24. They’re holding an open contest: anyone, anywhere…

The Austin Museum of Art has put it’s planned 30-story mega-expansion on indefinite hold as co-developer Hines Interests pulled out, citing the economic meltdown.  Jeanne Clair Van Ryzin has the…

The Art Guys are offering the name "Art Guys," their registered trademark, for sale along with their logo and assorted Art Guys ephemera. They’re asking $500,000, but it seems like…

In the latest on a story I’ve mostly ignored, Diane Haithman in the LA Times arts blog reports that Los Angeles’ MOCA has decided to accept Eli Broad’s $30 million…

Cite magazine and the Rice Design Alliance have launched OffCite.org, a new blog about architecture and design in Houston and elsewhere, but, having caved to the digital-media future, they can’t…