Bill Davenport

The Houston-based artist team of Carter Ernst and Paul Kittelson have been awarded a commission to create an enormous, stainless-steel bird’s nest at the front entrance of William P. Hobby…

Highway, a two-ton recycled steel sculpture from artist James Hetherington‘s "American Backbone Series", will be permanently installed at the entrance to Primrose at Monticello Park Senior Apartments San Antonio, in…

Houston street-art chronicle site Dirty Third Streets has moved to LA, but claims that the "end is not near" in their most recent post. Help him keep Texas street art…

The Houston Art Alliance has announced an open, national call for video for a video art collection to be shown at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. HAA…

Award winning photographer, journalist and videographer, Donna DeCesare‘s reportage about the spread of US gang culture to Central America has won has won her an Alfred Eistendstadt magazine photography award,…

Did you know that all those grey bungalows around the Menil house some of Houston’s innovative arts organizations? The Menil Arts Community Open House this Saturday tells all. Beginning at 3…

Domy Books has teamed up with AK Press to bring comic book activist-artist Seth Tobocman to Domy Books, in Austin and Houston, for powerpoint presentations on his new book Disaster…

I don’t usually announce fundraisers, but when the International Museum of Art and Science (The institution that brought you Grossology: the Impolite Science of the Human Body) in McAllen, newly…

The second event in Julie Thornton’s new Testpeformancetest series will be a musical performance by Maxi Geil! & PlayColt, who blur the boundaries between art and rock with "a heady…

Pink [unplugged], a temporary love factory set up with vintage typewriters, a matrix of pulleys, ropes, ladders and computers human-powered by pink bicycles on the shore of Ladybird lake in…

Talk and Tunes about contemporary, temporary public art is the next bit of culture on Austins’s full plate. Friday night there will be a panel discussion with the artists responsible…

The first Colloquium, a nomadic, intermittent series of evenings filled with a mix of quick presentations from artists on their work is coming to San Antonio this Thursday night. Leslie…

Art patron Julie Thornton has launched Testpeformancetest, a multi-year fund that will bring a mix of national and international performance work to Austin. The fund will also commission new work…

David Sokolec of Border Art dialog reports on an effigy hanging outside University of Texas at El Paso’s Glass Gallery at the Fox Fine Arts Center that has touched a…

Sculptors Dominion, a 6-acre art ranch and educational organization in San Antonio, is opening its gates for the seventh annual Sculptors Invitational exhibition, featuring 110 big outdoor sculptures by artists…

Teachers grapple with social inequity, gifted youth, cultural conflict, financial shortfalls, generous colleagues, crime, and acts of kindness every day, and teachers from Lee High School, including Chuck Fattore, Keisha…

Just to get a jump on the next art-crowded week in Austin, I’ll start now: Art Week Austin runs from April 22-26 with wall-to-wall events starting slowly with with daily…

There will be an informal memorial service for Houston artist Dale Stewart at the Houston Art League at 6pm Saturday April 18, followed by a gathering at to the Menil…

Ex-Houstonian and art car pioneer Tom Kennedy, creator of the Shark Car (“Ripper the Friendly Shark”), the Ben and Jerry’s Topsy-Turvy Bus and many others, died this past Easter Sunday…

Houston’s M Squared gallery is hosting a show and sale of work from Art League Houston’s Healing Art program, opening this Satuday, April 18, 7-9 pm. Art League Houston has offered…