Bill Davenport

The Dallas Museum of Art Grants to Artists deadline has been extended to Friday, March 13- and you’ll need it, since they apparently require 35 mm slides or VHS tape…

Visionary builder Dan Phillips’ Bone House in Huntsville was devastated by fire on the night of Feruary 12. The Houston Chronicle’s Lisa gray  rakes through the ashes of the project,…

10am: board the boat at Allen’s Landing (corner of Commerce and Main Street) for an excursion with members of the CLUI as they observe and highlight the curiosities of Buffalo…

Houston artist Tim Glover and Diane Barber, co-executive director of Diverse Works will comment on the theme "Civic Art: Do It Yourself" with moderator Helen Lessick, director of Houston Arts…

The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, and Aurora Picture Show present a drive-in screening of industrial films about oil at the site of a former junkyard on…

Houston’s Skydive art space begins its Saturday Free School for the Arts this weekend with a short course in "Building a Green Home in Houston", a tour with designer John…

This Saturday, Feb 28, artist Kevin Curry, recent recipient of one of the new Idea Fund grants, is inviting the public to a quilting bee at Houston’s Lawndale Arts Center.…

Houston’s Gremillion and Co. is hosting Art of the Steppes, a 10-day benefit show of Mongolian art for the development of a non-profit Mongol House for cultural preservation in the…

Charles and Ray Eames, the people who brought those nifty bent-plywood chairs to your elemetary school library, also made films. (and card games and . . . ) Domy Books,…

The key to provincialism is the belief that something happening somewhere else is more important than what is happening right before one’s eyes. Since the people you know and the…

Houston’s Blaffer Gallery is looking for an artist with experience teaching primary school students, ages 6-12 for its Summer Arts Workshop. Held Tuesdays- Fridays June 16-26, 2009, from 9:30 AM…

Houston art collective ArtStorm is closing the doors on its gallery space in the Caroline Collective building, and has postponed scheduled shows and events there. The current show, A Jewel…

And if that wasn’t enough, British artist Lucian Freud has been commissioned to supply an image of a zebra sniffing at a palm tree for the label of the 2006…

A reproduction of a painting from the Amon Carter’s collection was featured in the background of a Saturday Night Live sketch last weekend. Martin Johnson Heade’s Thunder Storm on Narragansett…

Houston artists Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher’s Reel to Reel exhibition at the University of North Carolina’s Weatherspoon Art Museum has been shut down. Citing problems with safety regulations, the…

There’s a house at 931 Cottage St. in Houston, that’s got a hole in the middle. Houston artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck will be mining the building for material…

For over 6,000 years, the famous lapis lazuli deposits in Afghanistan have been the source of natural ultramarine, the highly prized blue pigment that used in works of art from…

There will be a memorial for Houston painter Ron Hoover, who died of lung cancer in last December, at the Station Museum in Houston on Friday, Feb. 20 from 6-8pm.…

Multimedia collective Austin Video Bee is holding a release party for Austin Video Bee 2, its second collection of 12 new videos, this Thursday, Feb 19 at the Carousel Lounge,…

Tom Sime has a new blog site, SmellMyFear.com. The painter-playwright relocated from Dallas to New York last fall to pursue his stage dreams and is already meeting with success, despite…