Bill Davenport

Luminaria, San Antonio’s answer to Disneyland, Is this Saturday, March 14, with a preluminary kicks-off concert at Artpace on Friday the 13th, 7pm. for this second luminaria, bigger is better:…

The 22nd Art Car Parade is May 9, but the deadline for entry to "Houston’s annual celebration of all things wheeled and wonderful!" is Monday, March 16! Your $30 application…

This evening the Ft. Worth Modern brings Nicola Vassell, curator, art writer, and currently a director at Deitch Projects in New York to speak. For this Tuesday evening’s lecture, Vassell…

This Wednesday’s Contemporary Salon at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Gallery will be discussing the Center For Land Use Interpretation’s Texas Oil project and the way in which the CLUI…

San Antonio Art blog Emvergeoning has  sneak preview of Tom Otterness’ new installation in SA, scheduled to open on March 15. Titled, Makin’ Hay, the pieces are scattered over an…

Emerging Mexican artist Diego Pérez García will be the first to particiapte in the new Mexico-Austin Artist Exchange. He’ll spend one month at the University of Texas developing ideas and…

Austin’s Flatbed Press, celebrating its 20th year, is again suppling helpful "Tax Tips For Artsts" on Wednesday March 11th from 6pm to 8pm. Professional Tax Preparer Cheryl Finfrock will shed…

Richard "subtle" Tuttle is coming to the Menil Collection Tuesday evening to give a talk on "Positive Art and Positive Healing." Although most of his work has taken the form…

The Rothko Chapel presents screenings of two films by Udi Aloni at the University of St. Thomas’ Jones Hall (Yoakum Boulevard at Sul Ross Street) will be spiced with an…

Ann H. Holmes, arts writer for the Houston Chronicle for 40 years, died yesterday. At the Chronicle, Holmes worked her way up from copy messenger to fine arts editor, then…

Houston artists Greg Donner and David Krueger are building a hay-bale house, spiritual retreat, and artist studios for visiting artists way out in West Texas. Find out how it’s done…

Registration begins March 8 for the Ft. Worth Modern Art Museum’s popular Summer Art Camp and Summer Art Study programs for children. Art campers spend time in the galleries and…

Tonite! Houston’s Contemporary Art Museum is treating us to a free show by the Bobbindoctrine Puppet Theater. Joel Orr and his motely crew will be performing three short plays: "No…

Super Happy Fun Land is back. Thanks to Faramarz Eisivandm "the Obi-Wan Kanobi [sic] of contractors," the "new and improved "official" Super Happy Fun Land will re-open on Saturday, March…

Meaning "written from left to right and back again", i.e. zigzag! Thursday evening, Dr. Rex Wallace, Chair of the Classics Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, talks about "The Archaeology…

Aleatoric Art, a new web-based not-for-profit gallery featuring artists whose practice blends new-age ritual with old-fashioned automatism is emanating from Houston. The site’s author, J. Coleman Miller, says the site…

The LA Times’ Culture Monster reports that mega-dealer Larry Gagosian and mega-artist Chris Burden have got their tongues stuck to the pump handle: 220 lbs. of gold the gallery purchased…

Rolf Fehlbaum is in Houston to lecture and sign copies of Project Vitra, a 50th anniversary book about Vitra, famous manufacturer of famous designers’ chairs. In the 50’s, Fehlbaum began…

A pair of Interesting, but non-Texas, art stories typify the state of high-dollar art marketing: Anne Leibovitz has pawned the rights to her photographs to raise some cash for real…

It’s NY art fair season and The Armory Show’s satellites, Scope, Pulse and Volta, are featuring some Texas galleries this time around: The 2009 Pulse Art Fair will include Finesilver…