Bill Davenport

Confirmed by the Senate last week, the new head of the NEA, Broadway producer Rocco Landesman, seems refreshingly outspoken in Robin Pogrebin’s New York Times interview. In reference to remarks…

Are you sitting down? Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is launching something called the "Dallas Cowboys Art Program." According to ArtDaily.org, the program will commission site-specific contemporary art installations for…

Lauren Kelley is the subject of Skydive’s "Saturday Free School for the Arts" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Christian Baer will interview the artist, who creates stop motion animation…

Get that couch off your porch. Joe and Jahjehan Bath Ives need your loveseat, dining room table with two or more chairs, low coffee table, household knickknacks, pillows, dishes, vases,…

According to Bloomberg.com, Sotheby’s Chief Financial Officer, William Sheridan, thinks the art market has bottomed out. The auction house reported an 87 percent drop in earnings for their second quarter…

Artist Charles Huntley Nelson died last week from complications following a stroke, art critic Jerry Cullum reports in his blog. Nelson was suffering from advanced stomach cancer. Originally from Houston…

There is a nice post about Julian Dashper on the Texas Gallery website. The New Zealand artist died last week. Artist Nancy Douthey recalls his influential 2003 show "Unique Records."

You can lead an artist to subject matter but you can’t control what he does with it. According to New York Magazine, the head of Credit Suisse global proprietary trading,…

The Wall Street Journal‘s Eric Felten weighs in on copyrighting images of public domain artworks. His conclusion? You can’t. Before you start swiping online images willy nilly, however, Felton usually…

Texas is surviving the recession better than most states and "Houston is arguably America’s most enthusiastically cosmopolitan city, a place where the future has already arrived," according to a special…

Testsite is screening two Duncan Ganley films today in conjunction with the current Art Palace show, I Am Not So Different, curated by Rachel Cook. Midnight, mid-atlantic (2008-2009) is billed…

Aspects of "shamanism" appear in contemporary art from time to time. "Do Shamans have more Sex," an article by Robert Wright in Slate magazine, provides an unromantic overview of the…

Last February, Annie Leibovitz basically pawned her entire life’s work – past, present and future – eventually receiving a total of $24 million in loans from Art Capital Group, Inc.…

Drive-in theaters may be a thing of the past but you can still watch movies under the stars in Houston. The Menil Collection and Aurora Picture Show are screening High…

"How to beat the recession: cut costs, slash prices, don’t lie and be creative," an online article from the Art Newspaper, offers frank advice to galleries from art world veterans.…

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House is for sale in Los Angeles. If you don’t remember the Mayan temple-esque structure from an architectural survey class, you’ll probably remember it from Bladerunner.…

In 2003, US troops built Camp Alpha in Hilla, Iraq over a 4,000-year-old archeological site, the home of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Ishtar Gate, the Lion of Babylon…

Soundtracks for art? Select works from the Dallas Museum of Art’s permanent collection now have audio and other online "bonus features." The soundtracks were created by a UT-Dallas sound design…

Artists, while you cross your fingers and hope for national healthcare, check out The Artists’ Heath Insurance Resource Center. It ain’t exactly a single payer system, but they have plenty…

Artist Peter Coffin’s project “How to Sneak into a Museum Without Paying,” is a collection of drawings that show you how to do just that. The artist is working with…