Bill Davenport

Turner Prize-winning British artist Jeremy Deller takes his nationwide road show It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq to Houston and Dallas this week. The museum-show-in-a-trailer, towing an attention-grabbing…

The Ashmolean, Britain’s oldest museum, has run out of money three quarters of the way through a planned 61 million pound renovation that would double its floor space with a…

From 2-4 pm Saturday, members of InCUBATE, a Chicago-based group will discuss what “collective activity" looks like, what it costs, and why it matters. They are trying to develop financial…

This Saturday, April 4,  Mitch & Carolyn Cohen’s 1st Saturday Art Market populates its customary parking lot at 548 W 19th St., Houston, and it isn’t even hot yet! 50…

Mark Dion blurs the boundaries between natural history, art and science at his talk this evening at the MFAH’s Glassell School, 7 pm. ALSO: Today’s the last day to put…

Houston’s Orange Show needs over 300 volunteeers, especially those on skates, to keep this year’s Art Car Parade rolling along. This evening, from 5-7 Tuesday, April 2, they’re hosting a…

Tonight! Hopeful contenders for Austin Mayor and city council are on the hot plate as The Honorable Betty Dunkerley moderates a discussion of the candidates’ plans for the arts in…

Russ Pitman Park, in that part of the City of Houston known as The city of speed cameras, or Bellaire, is a 4-acre nature conservancy with a pocket prairie, a…

Leigh Boone, the Executive Assistant at the Houston Center for Photography, was injured Monday in an accident involving the collision of two fire engines at the intersection of Dunlavy and…

Ed Ruscha, prolific sign-painter and modern art theorist will discuss his life and work at UT, Austin’s  AT&T Conference Center Amphitheatre, 1900 University Avenue, on Thursday, April 2. You’ve just…

Prospect.1, the New Orleans biennial of contemporary art, may have generated a lot of publicity for the storm-wrecked city, but it was reportedly $1.1. million over budget, a gap painfullty…

Today, the cover of the NY Times shows a Mexican Army patrol with machine guns but David Sokolec, in his blog Border Art Dialog, offers a look at the flourishing…

Wednesday, April 1 is your chance to see chance to see real "action-painting" when more than a dozen World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars and Divas summon their fine art skills to further the…

The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess, the newest book by the Romanian-born American writer and heavily-accented NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, offers a meditation on absolute ideals turned…

Robert Delford Brown, 78, visionary performance artist and one of the original originators of the "happening" was recently found dead near his home in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he lived…

Saturday, it’s Spring Gallery Night in Ft. Worth. 2-9 pm. Saturday, Bayou City Art Festival at Memorial park, Houston, spreads it’s soggy wings. (Friday and Sunday, too; as a matter…

In a juicy artworld sideshow to the economic meltdown, Lawrence Salander, prominent NY art dealer, was arrested thursday on charges that he cheated his clients out of an alleged $88…

This Saturday, March 28, the 5th annual Dignowity Hill Pushcart Derby pits San Antonio’s funkiest, fastest, and/or most creative carts amid food, fun and neighborhood activism at Dignowity Hill Park,…

Writer Gregg Bordowitz does: "I have an embarrassing admission to make. I still believe that art can change the world. I know a work of art can’t feed the hungry…

Grotto Wall at Sparky Park, a former Austin Energy substation site, now a pocket park in Austin, is finished! The masonry “artwall” by artist Berthold Haas "transforms an existing cinderblock…