Bill Davenport

Galleries may offer discounts but rarely do you get an across-the-board “sale”; the current economy is changing all that. For Frontroom = Backroom, Marty Walker Gallery has hung up the…

You and your kids can create a Man Ray-style photogram at the Houston Center for Photography’s Family Day. Digital family portraits, projected drawings and other interesting activites are also on…

Trekkies take it to the next level when Aurora Picture Show presents Star Trek fan films. Savage Empire was written and filmed by Starship Exeter, a group of Trekkies who…

Dallas’s Conduit Gallery is turning 25 and it’s throwing a party. To celebrate, gallery artists are going all out on the decorations with stuff like balloon installations. Artist-designed birthday hats…

Parodies of cheesy motivational office posters will adorn the staff offices of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston as the exhibition/extravaganza No Zoning:Artists Engage Houston continues tonight. Sysiphus Office, organized by…

Is Hans Ulrich Obrist an alien? Art Fag City’s Karen Archey offers convincing proof in her post about a Tuesday Guggenheim panel with Obrist, Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong and the…

He’s filmed himself playing basketball while wearing a Laker’s uniform and a Scarlett O’Hara hoop skirt. Now, Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford, included in the Dallas Museum of Art’s exhibition…

Japanese internment camps and racist caricatures, Dallas’ Crow Collection gets edgy with The Return of the Yellow Peril, a survey of the work of Roger Shimomura from 1969 to 2007.…

The George Sugarman sculptures on view at 602 Sawyer in Houston are actually pieces from an epic, dismantled installation originally created for the First National Bank Building in St. Paul,…

Getting straight to the heart of the struggle between public ownership of museum art and museum-controlled access to those works, Britain’s National Portrait Gallery has filed a lawsuit against Derrick…

The latest guerilla arts project in Dallas is GuerillaArts, an art school/ resource center/residency program founded by young artist Patrick Short, to help other young artists, in East Dallas.  Big…

Dallas’ Mighty Fine Arts gallery is having a coupon sale this weekend:  30% off any piece of art in the house. Only good for this weekend, July 17,18,19, 12-5pm. Free…

Meanwhile, in Houston The Sketchy Neighbors club explores a beautiful myth shared by local musicians and visual artists, in which each thinks the other is raking in the dough by…

Dash Snow, 27, great-grandson of Texas art philanthropist Dominique de Menil, has died of a heroin overdose in New York. The young man, who supplied what Ariel Levy termed "that…

Let’s have a parade! On Sunday, July 26, sweaty DIY paraders will meet at the San Antonio River Tunnel Inlet at Sundown (7:45pm, if you don’t have a sun) and…

Dallas’ Deep Ellum Foundation is looking for  20 artists to repaint the concrete sculptural panels that inhabit the underpass that is the Deep Ellum Art Park. Eleven years after the…

Hurrican Ike inundated Galveston with salty, petroleum-laden water that killed 80% of the island’s trees. The Galveston Island Tree Conservancy is looking for woodworkers and artists who could use some…

Blowing in from the creators of HIWI, (Houston, It’s worth it) IKE: The Book indulges in a little disaster nostalgia, collecting pictures, testimonials, poems and diary entries about last year’s…

The Kimbell has commissioned filmmaker Philip Haas to create an installation of five short interpretive films inspired by works in the Kimbell’s collection. BUTCHERS, DRAGONS, GODS & SKELETONS wades into…

The Amon Carter Museum has acquired a rare, complete set of Edward Sheriff Curtis’ The North American Indian (1907–1930). Curtis’ 20-volume masterwork of visual anthropology includes 2222 photogravures, making it…