Bill Davenport

James Tisdale’s ceramic sculpture, Squirrely, was announced the people’s choice among the 138 pieces of art displayed in this year’s City of Austin People’s Gallery show. The blue-faced, anthropomorphic squirrel,…

In conjunction with the exhibition Fluid Frontier, opening Tuesday, March 2, 4:30-6pm  at the University of North Texas in Denton, the Fluid Frontier symposium will be held at 7pm, Thursday,…

Everyon’e invited to Contemporary Art month San Antonio’s Rebirth Parade will march up the newly-completed Mission Reach section of the San Antonio River, to the Blue Star Arts Complex this…

Along with the usual commission announcements, meeting updates and program reminders, last week’s Houston Arts Alliance newsletter included a a bizarre plug for “The Studio Protector,” an elaborate wall-mounted chart…

Houston’s Art Colony Association has chosen 10 Houston area high school students to take part in their Emerging Artists Installation at the Bayou City Art Festival, on display in Houston’s…

March is Contemporary Art Month‘s month in San Antonio for the 25th time! This year, on their endless quest to raise the national profile San Antonio Art and artists, CAM…

Houston artist Tara Conley has been selected to create a comprehensive art treatment for the Houston Police Department’s new Fondren Patrol Station planned for Westplace Drive. Her project, selected through…

Motion-music painter David Ellis will be in Austin to work on a video piece for UT’s new Visual Art Center. While he’s here, he would also like to paint in…

Between “Digging up the real costs of coal”, and “Credit card biz shift: Penalties to perks”, Christina Rees, co-curator of last weekends’ Modern Ruin show at a surplus Washington Mutual…

Gemini Ink is gearing up for the second edition of Libro Libre, their book give-away during last year’s Luminaria, and is "asking folks" to donate books for the project. Just…

MFAH film curator Marian Luntz is now blogging for the Houston Chronicle! Maybe it’s not news to you, since she began last December, but her blog, SmARTfilm, spotlights movies and…

Celebrate the long-awaited release of BUFFET DVD #1,  a compilation of video work organized around the theme of “Houston” by Sasha Dela,  Kara Hearn and Kelly Pike, at DOMY Books…

Sunday, February 21, at 3pm, Dr. Francesca Leoni, Assistant Curator of arts of the Islamic world at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will commemorate the thousand-year anniversary of the…

According to the NY Times, Marianne Stockebrand, director of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa since 1993, is planning to retire. A search for her replacement will begin immediately. Stockebrand will…

States of Exchange, an interactive exhibition about collaboration opens Friday, February 26, from 6-8 pm at Labotanica, 2316 Elgin in houston. Here’s the deal: individuals "of all creative backgrounds" propose…

Modern Ruin, a two-day exhibition organized by Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer will open on Saturday, February 20 in Dallas, with an opening that night from 8-11pm at the abandoned…

K Space in Corpus Christi Contemporary kicks off it’s paradoxical anti-graffiti graffiti program, G.A.P. 2010 with its first workshop GRAFFITI 101.  The class will be held February 20, 10am to…

The Dallas Contemporary has announced that its director, Joan Davidow, will retire after nine years at the helm, capping off her tenure of mightily expanding the Contemporary’s stature with the…

Houston’s Museum of Cultural Arts, the org that brought you the recent mosiac mural on the side of the Hubbard Financial Services building at Montrose and California St. (a fine…

In celebration of its 15th anniversary, Artpace is presenting a year-long, statewide exhibition featuring the billboard works of conceptualist sugar daddy Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Organized by Artpace Executive Director Matthew Drutt…