Bill Davenport

Last thursday Holland Cotter ranted, (or is it crowed?) over the NY art market collapse in the NY Times, lambasting "groomed-for-success" art school graduates, critics, curators, and career theorists who…

UTSA New Media professor Justin Boyd moderates a panel discussion on DIY and the Avant-Garde: artists creating alternative venues for cutting-edge art this Thursday, Feb 19 at UTSA’s downtown campus,…

The Dallas Architecture Forum brings curator and critic Elizabeth Smith to speak at the Dallas Museum of Art’s Horchow Auditorium this Thursday, Feb 19. Smith, chief curator at Chicago’s  Musum…

Tuesday Evenings at the Modern brings superslacker computer artist Jeff Elrod in from the Marfa desert on Tuesday, Feb 17 at 6 pm in conjunction with his first solo museum…

In a revised version of the economic stimulus bill recently passed by the House of Representatives, funding for museums, theaters and art centers has been restored- but rest assured, NO…

Rev. Seymour Perkins , San Antonio outsider artist and preacher, 78, died Tuesday. Perkins is best known for his eccentric house/ ministry at the corner of South Hackberry and Nevada…

Buddhist art specialist John Johnston is the new curator of asian art at the San Antonio Museum of Art, which, if you haven’t seen it, has an amazingly impressive collection…

Houston artists Carter Ernst and Paul Kittelson crashed their truck last Thursday on U.S. Highway 87 at Bean Road outside San Angelo while towing Ernst’s giant chicken sculpture to a…

Descibed as "an alternative universe dance club, populated by strange, assorted characters, with the single goal of helping you get your (freak) on, and in the process, breaking down the…

Cindy Ng, author of Girligami, an unbearably cute, "fresh, fun, fashionable spin on Origami”  will sign copies of her book on Saturday, February 14 at 3 pm at the Museum…

Houston’s 13th Annual Citywide African-American Art Exhibition takes over the Rice University central library and the Texas Southern University Museum from Feb 12-March 16 with works by LaToya Allen, Mac…

Shepard Fairey is now suing the AP over his appropriation of one of their photographs for his famous Obama Hope poster. Manny Garcia, the photographer who originally took the image…

Houston Art Alliance is looking for arts professionals to help select upcoming civic art commissions. Architects, designers and art historians are encouraged to apply. Artists can apply, too. Feel free…

Portable Trojan Bear, sculptor Jim Love’s first public commission, has been returned to Hermann Park in Houston, to its apt spot between the miniature railroad and the Houston Zoo. The…

If you’re feeling like a drive in the country between Austin and San Antonio this afternoon, you can amble on over to the beautiful hilltop home of Mr. and Mrs.…

Texans for the Arts is kicking off its 2009 lobbying season with Arts Advocacy Day on Tuesday, February 10th. $45 gets you an arts advocacy workshop with Kellner consulting and HillCo, and…

The Associated Press is looking for a piece of the action on poster artist Shepard Fairey’s iconic Obama/Hope image, which was made using a copyrighted AP photo. There’s no secret…

Seventeen Dallas area artists in six open studios = Art in the Hood Studio Tour and Sale, Saturday, Feb. 7 from11am- 6 pm. The artists are:  Gene Allen, Nancy Thompson, …

B Scene, the Blanton museum’s monthly art party is themed "Gods and Goddesses,"  this February, highlighting those intensely-white classical casts in the round room. Friday, February 6, 6-11. $10 ($5…

Max Neuhaus, musician and pioneering ambient-sound artist, is dead of cancer at 69. Neuhaus’ Sound Figure was installed permanently outside the the Menil’s north entrance in May. One of the…