Bill Davenport

The Dallas Museum of Art decided last week that a painting given to the museum in 1931 as painter Asher B. Durand’s “In The Woods” is actually a much nicer…

A 2,000-year-old statuette of the Greek goddess is too hot for the San Antonio Airport: an image of “Aprodite Emerging from the Sea” advertising the San Antonio Museum of Art’s…

Uriel Landeros’ one-man show at Houston’s James Gallery has garnered national attention, with articles in the Houston Chronicle, the NY Times, and the Associated Press. Landeros is the 22-year old…

With demand dropping for dull piety in art, contemporary artists have left the Nativity, the Annunciation, etc. to popular illustrators, and have rallied around Halloween as the new iconographic nexus.…

The Center for Curatorial Leadership has chosen 11 fellows for 2013; among them are Emily Neff Curator of American Painting and Sculpture The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Andrea…

Houston’s Beer Can House will be featured on HGTV’s new show “Home, Strange Home” this Friday, October 26th at 8pm CST! Host Chuck Nice and his HGTV crew made their…

Tom Luce,the lawyer asked by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to act as mediator between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Museum tower in their tug of was over the ongoing…

The City of Austin Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office, Cultural Arts Division (EGRSO-CAD?) handed out its annual Partners in the Arts Awards last week, recognizing the unsung cowboys of …

Houston’s Aurora Picture Show is looking for submissions for its “Open Screen Night,” a new quarterly event featuring experimental media projects and other screening events that are unlikely to find…

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Landscape Partners have received the Grand Award for the Modern’s landscaping in the 2012 Environmental Improvement Awards Program sponsored by the…

City officials in Carlsbad, CA quickly removed a six-foot wooden fork from a traffic island (at a fork in the road, get it?) last week, but not before CNN got…

The upcoming Latino Arts Fest in Dallas’ Bishop Arts District includes an open call exhibition for area visual artists juried by  Benito Huerta, Director of the Gallery at UTA, conceptual…

The Dallas Observer reports that Big Tex, the giant, awkward talking cowboy that has been a landmark of the Texas State Fair in Dallas for years, was destroyed by a…

In conjunction with Lawndale Art Center, Glasstire is luring some interesting people to warm the stools at our art fair bar: yesterday we learned how to crack a coconut the…

Artadia, the Fund for Art And Dialog, announced the winners of its sixth round of biennial grants to Houston artists at noon today at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair. Two…

The juiciest art-related headlines are about everything but art: this week professional conservators shame amateur art restoration in the Art Newspaper in the wake of the “Beast Jesus ” phenomenon,…

The Idea Fund, bank-roller of  “new, risk-taking forms that help to define new practices in contemporary art” is still accepting proposals for its next cycle of grants-but hurry! Their deadline…

Loading dock doors open this morning at 8am at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center to admit the soon-to-be-fevered installation crews for the second Texas Contemporary Art Fair. In addition…

Philanthropists in beaded gowns filled the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s art deco themed halls for the 2012 Grand Gala Ball, chaired once again by Cornelia Long, chairman of the…

From the Wall St. Journal: Eric Clapton’s  painting by Gerhard Richter, “Abstract Painting (809-4),” sold at Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction in London on Friday for $34.2 million—more than anyone…