Bill Davenport

The 2009 Business of Film Conference happens all day Saturday, September 12 at the Rice University Media Center in Houston. For a measly $50 ($40 for students, SWAMP & TALA…

Huntsville visionary builder Dan Phillips‘ funkadelic fantasy houses have altered the fringes of Hunstsville for a decade, now they’re altering the front page of the New York Times Home section.…

Domy Books and Sublime Stitching are throwing a book-signing party for Handmade Nation, the book of the movie by Faythe Levine. Their press release promises beer, music,  prizes and visits…

CADD ArtLab is closing after one short year of educating the public at its nonprofit gallery on Main St. in downtown Dallas. In what they’re calling a "one year experiment"…

Houston artist Cody Ledvina and  collaborator Curtis D’Costa have too much time on their hands. In addition to running the Joanna Art Space (Ledvina), their new Mega Fight Blog compiles…

Woodcarver James D. Phillips chainsawed a couple Ike-killed oak stumps in front of Galveston City Hall into a Dalmation and a fire hydrant last week, but Galveston isn’t the only…

David Sokolec of Border Art Dialog reports that the lobby of the El Paso Museum of Art was filled with a large metal nude woman, two swans, and a walk-in…

Have you heard that CDs are becoming obsolete? Oh, excuse me! they’re already out! Interbent has a predictable catalog of feeble attempts at recycling the tons of shiny, landfill-bound discoids.…

Lori Betz, owner/artist of the tiny Betz Art Gallery at 1208 W. Gray, Houston, is holding  her own Art Fair, merging art (everything under $100!) with "live art demonstrations, fortune…

You should have got there quicker; Lawndale’s already given away all the tins for its Day of the Dead event.

The Houston Arts Alliance has added Carole Anne Meehan and Matthew Lennon to its Civic Art+Design team. Meehan was Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; she joined the…

UT Austin’s new Visual Arts Center will be opened up for preview tours this Saturday, says Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin of the Austin American Statesman. Scheduled for completion in 2010,…

Just to give you an idea of the swanky digs ArtPace artists-in residence enjoy, ArtPace San Antonio is having a garage sale this Saturday, August 29, selling off gently used…

September 4 is this year’s deadline for aspiring ArtPace residents from Texas. Get your name on the shortlist for that short list of honored (and well-remunerated) artists-in-residence at Linda Pace’s…

Houston Center for Photography has announced its new interim director, Ms. Bevin Bering, artist and Gallery Director of Houston’s Bering & James Gallery. Bering also owns and operates Bevin Bering…

According to Mexican folk Catholicism, the celestial and terrestrial worlds come together once a year, and so do Houston’s artists and those little steel rectangles Lawndale Art Center is ready…

"We want everyone to know about the A/V Swap", with over 34 films by Houston artists and musicians in The Good, the Bad and the Dirty category, screening Saturday, August…

The Women Printmakers of Austin are moving to a new studio in the "lively" Pump Project Art Complex in East Austin, and are throwing a studio baby shower to gather…

DIY art philanthropist Mat Benote hung a small painting surreptitiously in Houston’s MFAH over the weekend, then sent out a press release to Douglas Britt at the Houston Chronicle, and…

In 1979, a year widely accepted as the official end of twentieth-century modern culture, Texas art legend James Surls helped found Lawndale Art Center. In 2009, he’s coming to reminisce…