Bill Davenport

Quiet, poetic, intimate — It occurs to me that paintings like these fill the void left in people's lives by the absence of books.

Buried in a recent newsletter from the Linda Pace Foundation is the news that the foundation plans to auction off Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild (774-4), from their collection to fund…

For Houston artist Sally Glass, Tinder is over. She’s “so bored, in fact, that I’d rather make a funny archival project than find a life partner through a smartphone app,”…

Two Houston exhibitions share a low-key, amorphous spirituality.

The United States Tax Court ruled earlier this month that artists who make little or no money from the sales of their artworks and support themselves through teaching can continue…

On Friday, The Dallas Museum of Art announced a pack of staff appointments: Brenda Berry has been named its new Chief Financial Officer, responsible for all accounting, financial operations, and…

Grace Ndiritu, Dan Schmahl, and Hilary Wilder have been named 2014 – 2015 Artists in Residence at the Galveston Artist Residency. Ndiritu is a British/Kenyan artist whose performances, writing and…

I'm not saying that many of the works on display would not have been better left in their shipping crates, but whether dogs or divas, I'm glad they were here.

Sebastian Campos, owner of The Mission Gallery, has announced the “end of our yearlong outpost in Houston.” The gallery’s space in the 4411 Montrose building will close its doors on…

Alverson's finger-lickingly tactile bricks, bars and tubes and his leaden, gloomy colors invest simple symbols with whole operas of pathos.

Marshal and Victoria Lightman’s ever-present Houston art appreciation group, Looking at Art, turns 25 this year. Established in the fall of 1989, Looking At Art takes groups of earnest self-educators,…

Art at Halftime, on the iTunes store, and in the galleries: here are three of the thirty-five things I've seen, photographed and made notes on this busy September.

Mark Osborne has been named Executive Director of The Printing Museum in Houston.  Osborne took over the duties from Interim Executive Director Amanda Stevenson on August 18, after serving as…

The University of North Texas College of visual arts and Design has renamed The North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts (NTIEVA) as the “Jo Ann (Jody) and…

Texas Filmmakers Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas have been siezed upon to provide insights into the character of fugitive Eric Frein, accused of killing one police officer and wounding a…

The Houston Fine Art Fair was beyond terrible. Is this is the real international art world?

Robert Irwin, 86 year old California light-and-space artist has finalized plans for a 10,000 s.f. building at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa with the help of Vernon and Amy Faulconer…

Houston’s Memorial Park, haven of joggers, turtles and squirrels, is the subject of a twenty-year master plan, unveiled yesterday by representatives of Memorial Park Conservancy, Uptown Houston Tax Increment Reinvestment…

Alberto Mejia II is the new manager of the city of Austin’s Dougherty Arts Center. Mejia arrived in Austin this summer from Seattle, where, as a self-described “engaged idealist” he…

Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum has just finished digitizing all the prints in their archives of eight important American photographers, putting more than 35,00 images online. The images are from…