Bill Davenport

Eyewitnesses reported a sudden inexplicable tidal pulsation along the coast of Maine tuesday afternoon. Water levels rose and fell from 4 to 12 feet six or seven times in Boothbay…

On November 6 the Dallas Museum of Art and its community partner La Reunion TX will launch Make Space for Artists: Design-A-Studio in Museum’s newly opened Center for Creative Connections.  Museum…

An exhibition of reluctant to pin down art by the Chinati Foundation’s current artist in residence, Charline von Heyl, opens Saturday afternoon from 12-2 pm at the Ice Plant building…

Teri’s Find, the newly authenticated Jackson Pollock painting bought as a gag gift in a thrift store for $5 by truck driver Teri Horton in 1992, is being shown at…

Alfred C. Glassell Jr., fisherman and  philanthopist, passed away yesterday. He was 95. In 1953 he landed the largest black marlin ever caught, 1,560-pounds, a model of which is on view…

Spooky, goofy, or spoofy, here’s this Friday’s lineup: Steel Lounge Underground – the costumed edition at the CAMH with  DJs Little Martin, Fat Tony, and Seth Jones, as well as…

Tomorrow night Artpace welcomes Rochelle Steiner, Director of Public Art Fund, New York’s leading presenter of artists’ projects in public spaces, for the final lecture in the 2008 ArtTalks series…

Tune in to an interdisciplinary symposium titled: The Counterculture in the 1950s and 1960s: From the Beats to Bucky Fuller tears pages from The Whole Earth Catalog and holds them…

Tonight! Lawndale hosts the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Houston Chamber Choir and Musiqa as they present short original contemporary, classic compositions as musical ofrendas in the gallery for the Día…

The Harris County Medical examiner has ruled that that Houston art collector Robert H. Chaney died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Police say that the 50 year…

Artist proposals for the second annual Luminaria, San Antonio’s all-day-all night celebration of the city’s arts and mood lighting scheduled for March 14, 2009 are due online by this Friday,…

My favorite art critic, Jerry Saltz, prods the still-warm corpse of the artworld in New York Magazine. After likening the recent Frieze art fair to a scene from Titanic and…

KERA’s blog has dug up an amusing anthem for arts administrators by Andrew Taylor, director of the arts administration program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a blogger at the…

NY conceptual painter, AIDS activist, and alleged overseer of a Neo Geo revival, Donald Moffett is coming to Fort Worth to ruminate on death, desire, power, and scandal as this…

Houston oilman, venture capitalist, and art collector Robert H. Chaney died Wednesday. The Chaney family’s art collection vigorously courted by the MFAH, was the subject of two recent exhibitions: Red…

Ft. Worth artist Kirk Hayes‘ Launched to Sink at C. Sean Horton’s Sunday L.E.S. gallery in NY was reviewed in this morning’s New York Times. Calling Hayes’ trompe l’oeil collage…

I just got a combined press release from the MFAH that highlights the reinstallation of the Asian Art galleries (with a fabulously restored Japanese folding screen), a lecture on October…

The Artist Foundation of San Antonio has announced the winners of it’s third set of cash prizes for area artists. Among awards for other genres, visaul arts awards included The…

Laura Rathe Fine Art opens it’s new space in the Mix building on Houston’s Colquitt St. on Thursday, October 23 from 6-8 pm with a group show titled "Colour."

Plans continue to move forward for the adaptive re-use of the planet’s first-ever enclosed sports stadium, the Houston Astrodome. The behemoth structure that irrevocably shook the world of architecture may soon have…