Bill Davenport

Amorphous international arts org labotanica is seeking artwork for Neverland, an art happening in memory of Michael Jackson at El Rincon Social in Houston on July 17. Billed as a…

Artist Helen Lessick has resigned her post as Civic Art & Design Director at the Houston Arts Alliance, after barely a year on the job, effective immedately. According to HAA…

Saturday, July 11 is Free Film Night at Frenetic Theater, 5102 Navigation Blvd, Houston. Sean Morrissey Carroll has curated Nasty Pictures: Twisted film from Houston artists including Travis Kerschen, Julia…

Native son and Texas art’s face to the world, James Surls, is back in Houston for the opening of his show at Barbara Davis Gallery, and will be on hand…

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin will talk and sign copies of his new memoir, MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION: the Long Journey Home from the Moon at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. …

Chicago art critic Lori Waxman installs herself at Arthouse, Austin on Friday, ready to give  brief, serious reviews to all artists on a first-come, first-served basis as the "60WRD/MIN Art…

This Thursday, Houston mayoral candidates Peter Brown, TJ Huntley, Gene Locke,  Roy Morales and Annise Parker gather to discuss planned land use and the absence thereof in Houston. The forum,…

Madeline Yale, executive director and curator at the Houston Center for photography since 2006, is moving to Dubai. She resigned last week, and her last day is Sept. 10. A…

Jacinda Russell and Nancy Douthey continue their tour of earth-art sites in the southwest. Yesterday the pair of pesky performance artists were at one of the older mankind-meets-dramatic-rock-formation events: Acoma…

Polymorphic Plastic Parade, a village of recycled tipis by artists Sarah Witt and Ian Gamble makes a stop at Republic Square Park in Downtown Austin today and tomorrow, July 6…

Eliseo Rios is leaving his post as interim director of the the Museo Alameda in San Antonio at the end of July. Rios was hired in 2007 to keep things…

Despite vicious media attacks,  topheavy administation and a recent audit, The Houston Arts Alliance has had its contract with the city renewed; HAA will be in charge of doling out…

Among the things HAA is doing one of this this year’s $12 mil: they’re commisssioning International artist Dennis Oppenheim to install  "Radiant Fountains," three sixty-foot tall towers of animated, colored…

Bravo, and the producers of the "Top Chef" and "Project Runway" reality TV shows are casting for a art-related version, in which contemporary artists  who "believe in their art and…

Artpace San Antonio is calling all Texas Artists for it’s 2011 round of residencies: those who get on the shortlist will be reviewed by three guest curators who will make…

Testsite, the Austin exhibition space arm of the Fluent Collaborative, is taking a sabbatical until 2010, citing "challenging financial times" and a "current restructuring" that has included the departure of…

On July 2 and 3, artist Ken Little and his band, Rodeo Ho Ho,  will be releasing their CD “Simple America," a collection of 12 original songs, and performing from…

KERA’s Art and Seek blog reports that Andrew Sie of Light and Sie Gallery in Dallas has died, after struggling with "long-term health problems." A memorial service will be held…

President Obama’s late mother, Ann Dunham, collected batik, those particularly Indonesian resist-dyed textiles, popularized in the US through generations of ethno-craft projects. The Ann Dunham Collection of Batik: Indonesian Identity…

Houston microcinema Aurora Picture Show’s 12th annual Extremely Shorts Film Festival has winners: First place goes to Oscillating Fan by Rob Tyler, second place goes to Frog Jesus by Ben…