Bill Davenport

Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches is gearing up for the 19th Annual Texas National Art Competition, a juried show open to artists nationwide, this time  judged by art…

María López De León, Executive Director of NALAC, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, heaquartered in San Antonio, has been appointed by President Obama to the the 18-member…

Austin artist Nick Miller and students in his collaborative mural class at AMOA/Arthouse’s The Art School at Laguna Gloria have finished a new mural at the corner of Congress Ave.…

Slinging Ink, a live-action war of words at Houston’s Diverseworks, is back! A blind panel winnows through submitted texts, fiction, nonfiction or “kitchen sink”, choosing finalists who will read their…

The Chinati Foundation  in Marfa is looking for a new executive director, again. The job description includes some interesting basic facts about the once-mysterious desert art-mecca: their endowment is currently…

Houston artist Bert Long has died. A Houston native, Long gave up a career as a chef for art in 1979, eventually becoming one of the city’s best known and…

The Löwenmensch, or “Lion Man” of Ulm (it might be a woman, but it was named during the “golden age of archeology”), a 30cm figurine carved from a mammoth tusk,…

On Sunday, NY Times critic Roberta Smith issued a call for museum curators to “shake up the snow globe” and mix folk art into the enervating canonical narratives found in…

If there ever was a dubious listing for art on eBay, this is it: new seller wart1963ray, with no feedback record, and no other items for sale, is offering a…

D magazine’s Peter Simek summed up the Art Guys Marry A Plant saga for Salon Magazine Tuesday. No news, but it’s a foreshadowing of how the whole thing’s going to…

Dr. Linda Henderson’s famous book, The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art, first published in 1983, has been expanded and reissued by the MIT Press, and just in…

Beginning tomorrow, January 31, The International Museum of Art and Science invites viewers to watch as Donald Williams, Senior Furniture Conservator Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute and a…

San Antonio artists Ricky Armendariz, Cathy Cunningham-Little, Karen Mahaffy and Vincent Valdez will be the first set of participants for the new Blue Star Art Museum/Künstlerhaus Bethanien partnership. Thomas Cummins…

Kelly Klaasmeyer, editor of Glasstire for the past five years, has announced that she will be stepping down to pursue her own writing projects in early February. Klaasmeyer has overseen…

Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has been named winner of the Greenfield Prize, awarded to a natinally recognized artist whose work is undergoing significant changes. Along with the money, the…

The Southwest School of Art in San Antonio has been forced to delay the start of its much-anticipated BFA program due to a procedural goof in their application to the…

The Third Ward Bike Shop, the original program of Workshop Houston, begun ten years ago by social entrepreneurs Seth Capron, Katy Goodman, Benjamin Mason, and Zach Moser, has been spun…

Historic Houston, a nonprofit dedicated to the salvage and re-use of historic buildings and materials, will open it’s temporary storage warehouse at 4300 Harrisburg Road, this Sunday, January 27th from…

Scott Carter,  who received  his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011, has been getting some attention for his gallery-deconstructing drywall sculptures. Problem is, San…

From January 10- February 15, the Bank of America Center at 700 Louisiana St. in Houston is hosting an exhibition of nine architect-designed rugs created by Afghan women as part…