Bill Davenport

Glasstire contributor Harbeer Sandhu is among 21 writers receiving Arts Writers Grants from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, for his blog project Critical Condition: “Aiming to provide a local forum…

In a post yesterday in CultureGrrl, blogger Lee Rosenbaum nitpicks the new free-admission policy at the Dallas Museum of Art. In support of her fears that dropping admission charges will…

Houston’s Zoya Tommy Contemporary Gallery, aka PG Contemporary, opened her first show at a new space at 4411 Montrose, beginning a new chapter in her upward spiral, but ending a…

Mighty Fine Arts is relocating  to 409A N.Tyler St., a few doors down from its current location, at the conclusion of the current Clay Stinnett “Blood and Whiskey” show on…

After almost ten years,  . . .might be good, the bimonthly online magazine published by Austin’s Fluent-Collaborative, is going on hiatus for the foreseeable future. In a farewell editorial in…

UT’s Blanton Museum of Art has appointed Veronica Roberts as curator of modern and contemporary art. She is currently adjunct associate curator of contemporary art for the Indianapolis Museum of…

On Thursday The Whitney Museum announced three curators for the 2014 Whitney Biennial: Tate Modern film curator Stuart Comer, curator of film at Tate modern, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia…

Second only to Halloween as an art-saturated holiday, the end of each year is an orgy of group gift shows, holiday decorating events, and year-end pleas from nonprofits happy to…

The Idea Fund has announced the ten Texas-based artists collectives with unusual projects for their 5th round of grants:  The Bridge Club – Art and Performance Collaborative (Huntsville); Erin Curtis…

The British Museum has announced that the Museum of Fine Arts Houston will be one of the stops for the Cyrus Cylinder, a 9-inch piece of baked clay shaped like…

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck has made another of his periodic stabs at art criticism, grabbing a little media attention (like this, sigh) for dunking a photograph of President Obama in…

Yesterday, a “press communiqué” from the Dallas Contemporary announced two new adjunct curators: Pedro Alonzo and Lilia Kudelia will joi  the org, helping to “enhance the institution’s mission of presenting…

On Wednesday, December 5, the public is invited to talk over the proposals with Mikyoung Kim, consultant for the HemisFair Park Public Art Plan from 6-7:30 pm at the Magik…

The Dallas Museum of Art announced yesterday that it will return to free general admission in January 2013 and launch an unusual new free-membership plan. The new program, DMA Friends…

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced yesterday that Artpace San Antonio is recommended for a $60,000 NEA Art Works grant to support its core International Artist-in-Residence program.…

Art critic Jerry Saltz has gotten the collecting bug- but, not being able to afford the seven-figure prices of the Gerhard Richter paintings he craved, instead challenged artists to fake…

On Saturday, December 1, 2012, thousands of volunteer victims are needed to participate in a regional hazardous materials training exercise at the Travis County Exposition Center, 7311 Decker Lane in…

Hive, Nestor Topchy’s “master-planned, artist-centric utopia” is stepping closer to becoming a reality- Lisa Gray reports in the Houston Chronicle that the seven-story dome constructed of shipping containers, housing work…

The El Paso Art Association has spun off a new photography show from its annual juried “Arts International” show, which ceased to include photographs last year, due to lack of…

Dallas Art News founder Michael Roman “spent a few minutes” interviewing new Meadows Museum curator Nicole Atzbach and posted his results yesterday; among a list of less than startling revelations…