Bill Davenport

The earliest pieces from Perry House’s most recent series "The Aftermaths" take the typical cloud of brooding fragmentary forms and let them settle to the bottom of the canvas, like…

San Antonio artist turned New Yorker Alejandro Diaz will be part of Mary Goldman Gallery’s What Do You Care? opening  January 25th in Los Angeles. Diaz is a recent recipient…

Blaffer Gallery director Terrie Sultan announced today that she will leave the museum in April 2008 to assume the directorship of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY. "She got…

Experts at the Heidelberg University library say they have confirmed that the subject for Da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa was Lisa del Giocondo, wife of a 16th-century Florentine merchant, just…

On January 19, the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art (across the street from the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center) presents Texas Collects Asia:…

The Corpus Christi Film Society is hosting a Mixer/Forum at House of Rock on January 17, 2007, beginning at 6PM.  After production reports, where filmmakers take the microphone and talk…

Lisa Cooley gallery opens its first show in Manhattan’s Lower East Side on January 20 with Frank Haines and Austin’s Andy Coolquitt . Cooley, former director of Houston’s Mixture Gallery,…

Trenton Doyle Hancock will be among artists whose prints will be included in the The Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions’ annual Gala and live auction on Saturday, January 19.  Other…

Nona and Richard Barrett of Dallas have given more than 100 works from their collection of contemporary Texas art to The Dallas Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine…

No bids yet on the Art Guys‘ cremated remains. The artists, currently undeceased, declined an offer in January to trade for art, and remain steadfast in their demand for at…

Photos of two new, adventurous projects crossed the newsdesk this week.  The largest building in the world, Norman Foster’s Crystal Island, a mini-arcology in weather-challenged Moscow and Jan Kaplicky’s gelatinous…

Creative Capital has awarded grants to three projects from Texas for 2008.  Luke Savisky (Austin) for his M/x, in the experimental film/video category, Otabenga Jones and Associates (Robert A. Pruitt,…

The private collection of June Worrell, Houston antiques dealer and interior designer will be auctioned off Saturday at the Holiday Inn Select on the southwest freeway. Worrell, who died in…

Philippe de Montebello, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from 1969-74, and longtime director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced his retirement from the Met sometime…

The San Antonio Museum of Art will dedicate Rockport sculptor Jesus Moroles‘ Round Ziggurat Fountain Plaza in its Luby courtyard on Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 3 pm. The museum…

Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art has received the International Association of Art Critics (United States Section) award for “Best Thematic Show Nationally” for its 2007 exhibition The Geometry of Hope:…

Nestor Topchy is teaching Pysanky: the ancient art of Ukrainian egg decorating at the Art League of Houston. The first class is Thusday afternoon, 1-4 pm. Easter is early this…

Engines of Our ingenuity , John Lienhard’s popular five-minute radio show on engineering and creativity will feature Broken Brushes, a bit about Gus Kopriva’s new book on German Expressionism. Episode…

Scooby Doo Crew has the insiders’ take on last week’s Houston warehouse fire, its aftermath, and relief efforts for the displaced. If you can’t stand all the myspace ads, it’s…

Artists Alive and Well ,  a new artists’ support group, will exhibit their work in the concourse of Houston’s Continental Building, 1600 Smith St.  The show was juried by Sara…