Overview

• David Adickes died on July 13, 2025, at age 98 in a Houston-area care facility surrounded by life partner Linda Wiley and daughter Mary Adickes Van Pelt.
• The Adickes Art Public Art Legacy Program and his family are arranging placements for the third set of 43 presidential busts in publicly accessible Texas sites.
• Trial lawyer Tony Buzbee acquired and installed six of Adickes’s Beatles sculptures at his Antioch Ranch in Cass County.
• Versions of the "We Love Houston" sign have been relocated to Hobby Airport and are planned for Bush Intercontinental Airport as a tribute to the city.
• Brazoria County officials are overseeing repairs to Adickes’s 76-foot Stephen F. Austin statue in Angleton after damage from Hurricane Beryl.