Bill Davenport

This Sunday, Houston’s newest art collective, BOX 13 will begin remodeling its galleries and wants your help. Remove chair rails and shelves! Prep walls for paint! Don’t miss the fun!…

The ubiquitous, media-friendly Art Guys will "Lie in State" in the rotunda of Houston’s City Hall between noon and 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1. Though the building is not…

The Texas Commission for the Arts is holding a strategic planning meeting in Houston on Friday the 28th, hoping to gather ideas on how to best corral its share out…

The inimitable author and art critic Dave Hickey will be at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth on Saturday, March 29 at 11 a.m. for a lecture: Fort Worth:…

Paintings by the Houston Zoo’s orangutans, elephants and siamangs will be on display at a one-night show and sale at Houston’s G Gallery. The 2008 Pongos Helping Pongos show will…

Continuing on the fraught-drawing, booze-and-bodily fluids theme, here’s a little gem I picked up at a thrift store years ago. It’s got a lot in common with Chris Cascio’s work…

Dennis Kois, Director of the Grace Museum in Abilene will be leaving in June for a new job has accepted the directorship of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park outside…

Willard Spiegelman does a good job describing that sublimely austere, churchy feeling that brings thousands of pilgrims to Judd’s Marfa each year in Thursday’s Wall St. Journal.

Art investment funds are looking to the Middle East, Africa, and India for growth potential as the US economy tanks. A brief but fascinating discussion of recent activity here. Did…

Though the Fotofest Meeting Place events remain shrouded in mystery, TONIGHT the public is invited in to see the work of artists that participate in reviews amid a fun- and-vodka-filled…

Arthouse will officially announce the long-planned renovation and expansion of its Austin headquarters, The Jones Center at 700 Congress Avenue at a press conference with the Mayor, the architects, Arthouse…

Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum begins accepting ballots for Decision 2008, a new program in which visitors get to vote for their favorite work in the Carter’s collection, and explain…

Obsessive Compulsive Awesome at ArtStorm is a mixture of counterculture cheek and adolescent bathos by two artists whose work is hard to sort out until you get the knack: Arthur…

Apparently the Wall Street Journal is as hard up for art news as Glasstire. Yesterday they ran a piece which, boiled down, is basically the news that Durer’s famous 1500…

The Dallas Morning News reports that about 200 pieces of art from the estate of the late Raymond Nasher will be auctioned off in May at Sotheby’s in New York.…

With Fotofest spreading its frenzy across Houston, and Chinese photography everywhere, it’s time to understand the new Chinese art phenomenon. Two interesting articles today talk about it from different perspectives:…

The Knitta phenomenon continues to attract media attention like lint on rayon, according to an informal comparison in the Arts Journal blog Aesthetic Grounds, trumping heavily funded and promoted public…

The San Antonio Express-News has some profiles of artists and projects that will be part of the upcoming Luminaria mega-event in San Antonio this Saturday. Gabriel Velasquez is working on…

The Smithsonian Institution is putting together a web-searchable index of it’s approximately thirteen million photographs.  "the Smithsonian set out to catalog and organize the world,” Merry A. Foresta, director of…

Luminaria: Arts night in San Antonio promises a multimedia art blitz on Saturday night, March 15. The downtown celebration will be from 6 pm to midnight with stages, gallery exhibitions…