Bill Davenport

Suitcase Wheel by Houston’s Art Guys was installed Friday at the San Antonio International Airport (where else?). A project of Public Art San Antonio (PASA), the 16-foot wheel of vintage…

Anthony Palasota, tireless Houston arts supporter, has died after a brief illness. Familiar to everyone as a fixture at Houston openings, for years Palasota religiously put together a weekly email…

US News and World Report‘s new rankings for Graduate School of art and Design are out. Selected by polling deans and other academics in 2012, there were no Texas schools…

Like Glasstire blogger Leslie Castro, non-Glasstire blogger Robert Boyd recently took a rambling trip through Dallas. Though he formed no conclusions, he saw a lot of art, a life-sized bronze…

We Open Art Houses (WOAH), Sharsten Plenge’s art-venue-in-a-shopping-mall project in west Houston, is looking for tenants for it’s “affordable, project-ready space” at its new West Oaks Art House at West…

Artist Charles Arnold will move into and occupy the front window of the Longview Museum of Fine Arts for the entire month of March. According to the stunt’s Facebook page,…

Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird returned to UT’s Harry Ransom Center on February 14. The homecoming of one of the center’s most in-demand works for a six-month…

When Eleanor Friedberger drove from Austin to the Big Bend for a residency at Ballroom Marfa,  she ended up sick on her first night, but then things took a turn…

In case you’re curious, Otis Ike has posted a photo album of theotis Ike/ Joanna’s recent Mardi Gras at Numbers with Christeene on his website. Sweat, booze, and various slimy…

The Nasher Sculpture Center today announced an ambitious series of commissions for public art pieces by local, national and international artists in honor of its tenth anniversary. The program, called…

Glasstire asked Houston artist Beth Secor to talk about her current show at Inman Gallery, and she tells how drawings of Texas trees are tangled up with her father’s death…

The City of Austin’s new African American Cultural & Heritage Facility, at 912 E. 11th Street, opens with a community celebration on March 1 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.…

The first Fort Worth Architecture Genealogy Chart, courtesy of Willis Cecil Winters, FAIA and W. Mark Gunderson, AIA, is now on the AIA FW website. Tracing the lineage of promnent…

On Friday, the Rothko Chapel announced that Nabila Drooby, one of the longest serving members on its Board of Directors, had passed away on Saturday, February 9, 2013 in Beirut,…

Like light rail, another big , sounds-good idea that isn’t worth it, Houston Art Alliance’s project to bring Blue Trees to Houston is going forward with a similar well-intentioned inevitablity.…

The San Antonio Department for Culture and Creative Development has announced its annual film competition, the Neighborhood Film Project 4 (NFP4), asking filmmakers to highlight one of four neighborhoods as…

Actor Ryan O’Neal is going to be allowed to sue Craig Nevius for defamation. Nevius told the Star tabloid and Good Morning America that O’Neal “stole” a $30 million Andy…

The Amarillo Globe-News reports that eccentric millionaire and accused sex offender Stanley Marsh 3 of Amarillo, along with inner circle, have settled  civil lawsuits by eleven claimants who accused Marsh…

Joshua Hargrave’s installation, Sprawl, is one of two shows opening all day today in Deep Ellum storefronts. The Deep Ellum real estate company, Deep Ellum 42, has offered its vacant…

Pushing the pop-up art show to an extreme of topical ephemerality, Houston Gallery Zoya Tommy Contemporary has put together a celebratory one-day theme show in honor of the NBA all-Star…