Jerome Weeks of KERA (Dallas public Radio) has a fascinating, minutely techie story describing how the zillions of pieces of red glass are being installed at the new Margot and…
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Bill Davenport
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Fotoseptiembre is off and running in San Antonio! On Thursday August 28th, the first shows open the Southwest School of Art & Craft with work by Brooklyn-based Zoe Sheehan Saldana…
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Lost Broadcasts, a new DVD of video by Eileen Maxson, is now available from the Aurora Video Label for $19.99. A former Houstonian, called "the Cindy Sherman of the MySpace…
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Scientists using a unique x-ray system have cracked the mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism, a corroded lump of bronze found by sponge divers a hundred years ago on the floor…
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A 1200-pound cement statue of the Ancient Egyptian god Horus has been discovered in inaccessible brush country in Marin County, California. Discovered by a Mill Valley fire deparment brush-clearing crew,…
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I saw the Big Show at Lawndale weeks ago, when it first opened. I took a lot of photos, and picked these as my favorites. I’m afraid I’ve lost my…
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There’s a new flap about Jackson Pollock. A member of the Board of Regents of the University of Iowa suggested that the University take steps to estimate the market value…
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The 11th Court of Appeals in Abilene has upheld a ruling against people complaining about ugly wind turbines in their backyards, because Texas law "does not provide a nuisance action…
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Austin artist Bob Bacon will be this year’s only Texan with an installation at Burning Man. Bacon’s 57 foot "Primordial Fish", designed to appear as a fossil imprint on the…
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Houston’s Deborah Colton Gallery takes over Molly Gochman’s Commune on North as it’s new headquarters beginning this Saturday. Colton plans to keep it’s old space in David Addickes’ Summer St.…
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Revered Beaumont Photographer Keith Carter‘s work is on view at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas; his new book, A Certain Alchemy , published by the University of Texas Press,…
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Art251, a new gallery opened this summer by self-decribed "corporate escapees" Mike Gerra and Kim Farrow Gerra in suburban Dallas/Ft. Worth just got an Art-O-Mat vending machine, and tells all…
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August is the month to get away from Houston’s heat, and this year, as usual, I visited family in the UK, with a side trip to the southern France for espadrilles and…
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The ubiquitous phone camera blog Is This Houston captured an unfriendly piece of exclusion so bizarre it might be art. In front of the Allen Center (remember Paul Kittelson’s Gnomes?)…
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El Paso art advocate David Sokolec paints a somewhat downbeat picture of the El Paso Museum funding issue in his blog Border Art Dialog this week, pointing out that with…
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Dan Goddard’s blog for the San Antonio Express News gives a rundown of San Antonio artist Dario Robleto‘s busy program of exhibitions in Houston, Toronto, San Diego & Marfa, including…
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Tyler Green’s blog, Modern Art Notes, is featuring a multi-part interview with Houston Artist Robyn O’Neil about her ninteenth-century influences, the little signs all over her studio, and her part…
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Kevin Curry, who is hard at work covering a house with quilts, Amber Eagle, who is returning to Houston after four years making confectionary art in Mexico, and Artadia award…
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San Antonio’s Blue Star Art Space is hosting a lecture by curator David Rubin titled "Past, Present and Future: Artists Looking at Time," followed by a performance by Albert Einstein…
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Centraltrak visiting artist Greg Biermann presents a night of digital video emanations called Digitalkinesis 01. Eschewing film and all that, it’s some kind of post structuralist hypno-therapy with gummi bears.…