Bill Davenport

Houston artists Katrina Moorhead and Robyn O’Neil have been awarded $25,000 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grants. O’Neil’s one-person show in Dunn & Brown’s booth D10 at Art Miami attracted a lot…

At the opening of Gallery Lombardi’s Xmas Expo, gallery owner Ron Prince  showed a collage entitled " The Gallery Will Close in January, " and apparently, it’s true. Gallery Lombardi,…

The design fot the $7 million Tolerance Bridge over Houston’s Buffalo Bayou near Montrose Blvd. was unveiled  at the city council Meeting last Thursday. Sassy Houston real estate site Swamplot…

According to that barometer of the real, DIGG, Homer Simpson and Legos have replaced contemporary art, which has degenerated into discusions of LA MOCA’s financial history and future strategy.

Aurora Video Library is hosting a video salon with Girls Rock! mockumentary film makers Arne Johnson and Shane King that promises to will knock over some sacred cows and de-stabilize…

It’s the 60th birthday of the United Nations’ universal declaration of human rights! Celebrate Human rights day on Wednesday December 10 at the appropriately depressing Rothko Chapel with speakers Dr.…

Spacetaker‘s third annual Winter Holiday art Market features over 60 local artists, live music, an open bar, and delicious bites from Beaver’s Icehouse and demonstrations from Fetosoap and Aerosol Warfare…

Saturday, December 6 it’s Heights Mistletoe Madness in Houston. Hello Lucky, 18 Hands Gallery, Casa Ramirez, Kaboom Books, Bill’s Junk, Antidote and the other funky gift, art and antique vendors…

The Arlington Museum of Art is the perfect place from which to watch Arlington’s Parade of Lights parade on Saturday, Dec 6. They will be open until 8 pm, serving…

The Chinati Foundation and the Crowley Theater in Marfa relive the formative days of nerdtronics with video of historical art performances from the Experiments in Art and Technology program (E.A.T.)…

This First Friday, December 5, in San Antonio Potter-Belmar Labs will be pulling out some old equipment and performing Live Cinema in the Say Sí black box performance space, 1518…

The city of Miami Beach has banned Cooper’s ink-spitting Dark Fountain from  the public park for which it was intended, because it stains people’s clothes. In other Art Basel Miami…

Record high tides in Venice, Italy caused authorities to warn residents by loudspeaker yesterday, and suspend ferry service along the grand canal. The waters were the highest since 1986.

The Austin Museum of Art will host a showing of blankets printed with drawings adapted from the work of hospitalized children by Austin artist and activist Ian Cion in it’s…

December 4-7, employees and volunteeers at the institutions in Houston’s Museum District get a holiday shopping break- the gift shops at the CAM, MFAH, Science Museum, Czech Center, Zoo, Menil…

From the press release (italics mine): "Two extraordinary artists, Robert Wilson and Bernice Johnson Reagon, will visit the Menil on Tuesday, December 2, in a special, two-part evening.  Robert Wilson,…

Peruvian Archologists have unearthed an Inca mummy, gold brooches, and some ceramics in a tomb at a site called Torontoy inside Machu Picchu state park.  What do you want? It’s…

Even as the flamboyant Zahi Hawass is charming Dallas with the Tut razzle-dazzle, the Egyptian antiquities czar is baring his teeth at the St. Louis Art Museum, which has somehow…

The Director of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth announced today that the Museum will be free every Sunday this holiday season, beginning Sunday, November 30, through Sunday, January…

Plans are brewing to re-create the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The Cologne-based design team led by German artist Gert Hof will make…