Bill Davenport

Touting itself as a refuge from "boring and serious video art," The second Sam’s Video Jam, at Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson in San Antonio features burgers, beer, and…

James Rosengren is the University of Houston’s Blaffer Gallery’s new deputy director. The Blaffer’s 11th full-time staff member, who has both a BFA and an MBA, was working as an…

Refarm Spectacle, the San Antonio-based collaboration between artist Jen Khoshbin and philosopher Paul Lewis, is starting a new telephone-only sound-art series. Each month’s offerings are organized loosely around a theme:…

The Armadillo, a FEMA trailer transformed into a mobile, sustainable community garden and composting station by students and faculty from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is making a Houston stop…

Farrah Fawcett, sex symbol and actress who died yesterday of cancer at age 62, was an art major at UT, Austin and continued sculpting throughout her life: a collaboration with…

City Councilman Michael Sullivan and Houston Mayoral candidate Roy Morales, with the help of Channel 13 news, are trying to use art to stir up trouble for  City Controller and…

Researchers at the University of Bari, Italy  have determined that beautiful art reduces the perception of pain. Dr Marina de Tommaso and a team fired stinging laser pulses at people…

In weather like this, it’s time to enjoy the darkened depths of Houston’s highly air-conditioned cultural institutions. This Friday, June 26, the Contemporary Art Museum presents Steel Lounge Underground with…

New York State is trying to draft legislation to stem the hemorrhage of art sales (the polite euphmism is "de-accessioning") from heretofore noble institutions feeling the economic pinch. The Metropolitan…

The 10th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management will be held June 28-July 1 in Dallas. The Meadows School of the Arts and Cox School of Business at Southern…

Did you know that several buildings on the UTEP campus were modeled on photographs of Bhutanese buildings in a 1914 National Georgraphic magazine? The Christian Science Monitor had the whole…

Two new DVD’s about San Antonio’s Gallista Gallery community are coming out in July. Bilingual Press will release "Yo soy/Iam: Chicano/Latino Artists in Historical Context 2 and 3," the latest…

Olivier Meslay, expert in British, Spanish and American art for the Louvre has been appointed a Senior Curator of European and American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, and…

In honor of Father’s Day weekend, Houston’s Aurora Picture Show is hosting a FREE screening and concert at Discovery Green on Saturday, June 20. First, it’s "Dads Who Rock" at…

The city of El Paso unveiled a twin-pyramid rammed-earth sculpture by Minnesota artist Janet Lofquist yesterday. The piece, layered from local dirt, discarded aluminum beverage cans, and shredded rubber from…

Stand up again for Dallas arts funding at a series of meetings of the Dallas City Council. Apparently, the current  threat is a recommendation by the City Manager to abolish…

Houston’s Apama Mackey Gallery is hoping to Keep Houston Rich with a low-budget sell-off of local art titled the AMG Visual Stimulus Package. One day only, this Friday, June 19,…

Houston artists Dana Harper and Hana Hillerova are re-opening Sengelmann Hall, a 19th century dance hall and saloon in Schulenburg after performing a top-drawer renovation. With a Czeck bakery, resturant,…

Emvergeoning, the SA-based blog of everything art has a long, nitpicky discussion of an apparently forged Sex-pistols flyer, purportedly promoting the Pistol’s 1978 San Antonio gig at Randy’s Rodeo. Using…

Time Magazine’s Richard Lacayo muses on a slower, pricier authenticity debate surrounding the new pre-teen Michelangelo painting the Kimbell’s just bought for a reputed $6 million.