Bill Davenport

Monday evening, April 19, 70’s rocker Patti Smith is coming to the University of Houston to read from her newest memoir, Just Kids and play a few songs from 7-8:30pm.…

Red Bull Art of Can is planning to bring another of its epic can-shredding and folding promo-fests to The Galleria in Dallas this year, and hopeful artists need to register…

One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer, an exhibition of new site-specific work in four vacant commercial spaces and a park in downtown Austin opens April 20. Organized by the new…

Austin’s 6th annual Fusebox Festival begins on April 21 with 40 or 400 artists all catalyzing interactions between live performance, visual art, installation, theater, dance and music at 10 or…

At DADA (Dallas Art Dealers Association)’s Spring Gallery Walk on Saturday, April 17, 37 art venues throw open their doors to hobnobbing art lovers from 2-8pm. The FREE walk is…

Under new rules buried in the new healthcare legislation, certain persons working in the nonprofit and public arts fields may qualify for forgiveness of their Federal student loans! The new…

The 8-page list of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowships for the US and Canada is out, and Texans  and ex-ans are well represented in the arts: UT art historians Troy Brauntuch…

Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is having a Slow Art Day this Saturday, April 17, from 11am-1pm. Participants will look at ten works of art for ten minutes each (this…

Friday, April 16 & Saturday, April 17, Linking the Arts in Texas, a big ol’ statewide convention for staff and board members of nonprofit arts, cultural orgs of all sizes,…

Darke Gallery‘s new cement block building at 5321 Feagan St., Houston, designed by architect Frank Zeni, will open in May.  The gallery will exhibit contemporary works with a focus on…

Renowned saxophone improvisationalists John Butcher and Joe McPhee will perform together in two Texas art installations this month. First in Houston, on April 14 at the Menil Collection’s Richmond Hall…

ArtPace Travel Grant applications are now available for download. Bexar County artists are invited to submit (online only) by Friday, April 30 to compete for some of the $5000 ArtPace…

The inaugural residency (singular) at PLAND, tiny parcel of land near Taos, New Mexico is inviting an artist to immerse themself in "off the grid" living and creating. Founded last…

The Dallas Museum of Art has added Marlene Dumas’  For Whom The Bell Tolls, Jim Hodge’s and still this, and Yayoi Kusama’s sculpture Accumulation to its contemporary art collection. It…

Booted out of Tarleton State University by pressure on college officials, then given a stage at Ft. Worth’s Rose Marine Theater, until that institution’s board got cold feet, Terrence McNally’s…

A fourteen-foot high horse and two six-foot tall German Shepherds now flank the Houston Mounted Police/Animal Services facility at 5005 Little York Road. The enormous synthetic stone figures are the…

Don’t touch that dial! The Bravo network’s new show "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" will premiere June 9th. In brutal reality-TV style, fourteen artists will compete in timed…

It’s not just Barton Barriers. In March, the Austin art scene rebelled against new requirements that cultural contractors for the city who received Hotel Occupancy Tax funds begin counting tourist…

Macarthur fellow and former Core Fellow Julie Mehretu will discuss her large, accumulative paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts Brown Auditorium on Sunday, April 11 at 2pm. Her work…

Dallas’ Oak Cliff Art Crawl, to be held Saturday and Sunday, April 10-11, is trying something new this year: The Better Block Project will tranform the 400 Block of North…