Bill Davenport

For Contemporary Arts Month, Haydeé Muñoz De la Rocha‘s San Antonio-based online art magazine, Art Magazine, will be launching its first print issue. According to the press release, “Our publication…

Founded in 1993 by Austin artist Sam Coronado, the Serie Project is a nonprofit organization that offers free printmaking facilities, training and housing for 8 to 15 artists per year…

NBA demigod Michael Jordan has rented Houston’s Museum Of Fine Arts For His 50Th Birthday Party, during the NBA’a upcoming All-Star Weekend. Jordan’s rumored plans to rent the Piney Point…

R. Gerald Turner, President of Southern Methodist University, announced that the Meadows School of the Arts and Cox School of Business are leading a collaboration with the Cultural Data Project…

Mustang, Luis Jiménez’s last work, aka the Big Blue Horse at the Denver Airport was reconsidered on Monday. Maybe it’s the glowing red eyes, or the prominent penis, but some…

Representatives from SAY Sí got a big surprise (and a big check) at the 2013 Membership Kickoff Party for Impact San Antonio last Thursday, when they were awarded a $100,000…

The Moody Foundation has awarded $20 million to Rice University for a new Center for the Arts. The 50,000-square-foot building, currently in the predesign phase, would provide lecture and studio…

Tejas Englesmith, Houston curator, arts administrator, and radio personality, died Sunday morning, February 7 in a Dallas hospital.  In the 1960’s and 70’s, Englesmith was assistant director of the Whitechapel…

Art League Houston has named Rachel Hecker as their Texas Artist of the Year for 2013. Leigh and Reggie Smith were named as Texas Patrons of the Year, and, in…

Sunday’s Dallas Morning news carried an op-ed piece by Dallas Museum of Art Director Maxwell Anderson, titled Giving Back Art: How Museums See It. The piece defines the “alloy of…

As a result of a recent hacker attack on the Bush family, photographs of three paintings by former President George W. have gone viral on the Internet. The National journal…

The 25th annual Art Car Parade rolls through Houston on May 9-11, 2013, and you can be in it! Just fill out the lengthy online questionnaire, attach a picture and…

Raj Mankad, editor of Rice Design Alliance’s Cite magazine, is circulating a petition asking the city of Houston to close a section of a different Houston street one night each…

Recently, The University of North Texas became the host for the archives of Art Lies, the now-defunct paper-and-ink Texas art magazine that began in Houston in 1994 as a free…

Yesterday was a big day for venerable Houston alterna-space DiverseWorks.  Exactly 30 years ago, on February 7, 1983, DiverseWorks’ inaugural exhibition was presented at Texas Commerce Tower’s 60th floor Sky…

Cadillac Ranch, the iconic panhandle art installation sponsored by eccentric art patron and accused sex offender Stanley Marsh 3, may be in danger of the bulldozer, according to Anthony G.…

From satirical newspaper, The Onion, on Feruary 2: TERRIBLE ARTIST THINKS LATEST PIECE REALLY REPRESENTS A CULMINATION OF EVERYTHING HE’S BEEN WORKING TOWARD ALL HIS LIFE Burlington, VT—Citing a lifetime…

Alana Coates reports on Lady Base, a new gallery in San Antonio’s South Flores Arts District,  in the most recent issue of Artmagazine SA. Run by artist Sarah Castillo, the…

When British  artist Damien Hirst split with Gagosian Gallery last December, the “insanely wealthy” artist was reported to be worth $215 million, making him the world’s richest artist. Living artist,…

After nearly sixty years of collecting, the Dallas Museum of Art has the publication of “The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas“, surveying 140 pieces from the Museum’s…