Bill Davenport

Houston’s Cactus Music, is branching out: the first "musicians as artists" show at its new "Record Ranch Gallery" opens Saturday, April 18 from 7-10 pm with baseball paintings by Will…

There will be a memorial service for Leigh Boone, executive assistant at the Houston Center for Photography who died last week, on Saturday, April 18, 4 pm at the Rothko…

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in multimedia, live. Legendary Joshua Light Show teams up with legendary electronic-rock band Silver Apples for a performance featuring the…

In January, The Galveston Arts Center was given a passel of artworks by the Galveston native artist and gallerist Margaret "Sis" Biehl,  who passed  away in July 2008. An enthusiastic…

May 1 is the deadline for artists and arts orgs looking for emergency Hurricane Ike Relief  Grants.  The Texas Commission on the Arts, in partnership with the National Endowment for…

Dale Stewart, a Houston artist best known for his association with the "I Love You Baby" collective, shot and killed himself Monday just before noon in the park outside the…

Leigh Boone, 29, executive assistant at the Houston Center for Photography, died of head injuries Saturday morning at Memorial Hermann hospital where she had undergone emergency surgery after her bicycle…

Turkish musician Tolga Unaldi plays Modern Turkish Sufi Music on the ney, a traditional Turkish end-blown reed flute at the Rothko Chapel on Wednesday, April 15 at 7 pm. Born…

OOPS! The Dallas Museum of Art opened Julian Onderdonk: Bluebonnets and Beyond last Easter Sunday, 2008. The early Texas impressionist is largely responsible for the whole bluebonnet painting genre.

If you’ve still got time left over from the bluebonnet show, check out the "Wizard of Peeps" diorama series featured in the Chicago Tribune. And BTW, in Egyptian Magic (London,…

Art lawyer Simon Stokes gives a rundown on the current state of UK copyright law vis a vis the visual arts in the current Art Newpaper online, citing recent cases…

Bloomberg reports that, in New York, New York Steven Harvey, director of Salander-O’Reilly gallery has pleaded guilty to charges that he falsified business records for his boss, Lawrence B. Salander,…

I sympathize with Chris Jagers’ dismay at the renewed assertion of language at the primary, superior carrier of meaning in his blog next door, but don’t get too worried. It’s…

CKCStART street and urban arts and Spacetaker are  hosting a free graffiti drawing workshop for urban artists aged 13-17 at the Spacetaker Artist Recource Center  inside Houston’s Winter Street Studios…

This Saturday, April 11, Houston’s Devin Border Hiram Butler Gallery is revving up for the sixteenth annual easter egg hunt on its luxuriously landscaped gallery grounds. Last year, this included…

On Saturday, April 11th, Houston’s  Orange Show rolls out its traditional Easter bunny petting zoo and hidden orange hunt in and around the colorful maze of Jeff McKissack’s monument to…

After 23 years of exhibiting the finest regional, national and international art,
 El Paso’s recently closed Adair Margo Gallery  has resurrected itself in a new space as Adair Margo Fine…

This afternoon, two fused-glass artworks will be installed at Houston’s Southeast Division Police Station at 8300 Mykawa Road. Beacon and Lumen, by Minneapolis-based art contractors IPS Art, the team of…

The recent magnitude six earthquake east of Rome, in addition to killing 179, damaged a passel of old buildings: the the Romanesque church of Maria di Collemaggio in L’Aquila was…

Mike Yrrobali and other urban muralists in El Paso are putting the finishing touches on a sea-themed panorama, painted on the interior surfaces of the El Paso Skatepark, one of…