Bill Davenport

Houston artspace Skydive has announced a forthcoming publication: Satellites and Socialists: On the Fringe of Houston Arts, a book of “essays, letters, fictions, floorplans, scandals and more”, to premier in…

Jacob Spacek and Megan Spacek are opening the new BLUEorange gallery in Houston at 1208 West Gray St., next to Betz Art Gallery. The co-founders, who are both artists, both…

The Dallas Arts District has announced  a few details of GLIMPSE 2012; a night of light, video, sound, installation and free public art intended as a preview of AURORA 2013,…

On Friday, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art began began putting 600 catalogs, journals and museum bulletins, 368 of them out-of-print, online. Searchable by title, keyword, publication type, theme or…

The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington D.C. based org that aims to raise awareness of historically important landscapes like The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington, Vermont and the…

The City of El Paso is holding it’s fifth annual Chalk the Block public art festival this weekend, beginning this evening at 6pm. The fest, running October 12 -14 in…

K.C. Scharnberg, Program & Marketing Director at Fresh Arts and a founding member of the Horsehead Theater Company is moving to San Antonio next week to take up a new…

The Art Newspaper has a brief analysis of the new landscape of big-name artist representation in an international artworld: it’s even more cutthroat than before, or more openly so: ““the…

The new Texas art section of the DMA’s website got kudos from ArtsJournal blogger Judith H. Dobrzynski for making a stab at telling a regional story, counter to what she…

The announcement of an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of artist Uriel Landeros, infamous for allegedly defacing a Picasso painting at the Menil Collection last summer, has sparked a Facebook…

London’s Metropolitan Police Art Squad is investigating an incident at the Tate Modern in which a man scrawled words in black ink in a corner of Rothko’s Black on Maroon…

Panelists Michelle White, Curator at The Menil Collection; Margot Norton, Curatorial Associate at the New Museum, New York; and N. Dash, a New York artist, named have selected ten finalists…

The Dallas Museum of Art has added a complete listing of its Texas Art Exhibitions to its website, creating a mine of information on regional art back when it was…

CentralTrak, UT Dallas’ artists residency in Deep Ellum, is launching a bi-weekly artist talk series, titled Next Topic. Each session will feature an artist and culminate with an in-depth discussions…

The Rice University Thresher reports that the school’s new James Turrell Skyspace is having some unanticipated conflicts with other uses of the busy campus. Lighting for night-time games on the…

The BBC’s Your Paintings, a website aimed at showing the entire UK national collection of oil paintings online, is just about complete. After ten years of work in the storerooms…

The City of Austin has announced the allocation of its fiscal year 2013 Cultural Arts Funding Program awards. Notable for diversity, and many small grants to specific, quirky projects, either…

Glam director Jeffrey Deitch has added powerhouse entertainment agent Ari Emanuel to the MOCA board, and the results have been immediate: Emanuel reportedly negotiated a partner deal between MOCA and…

The only thing more interesting to the general public about high-end art than its’ outrageous auction price is the incredible, finicky details of its conservation. The Kimbell has created an…

The San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs is now the Department for Culture and Creative Development, effective October 1. The new name comes with some real expansion: the department now…