Bill Davenport

This Saturday, November 15, internationally renowned 5th Ward artist and gardener Bert Long Jr. cordially invites everyone to the public unveiling of his year-or-so overdue 30-foot autobiographical mural "Art/Life" at…

O. Rufus Lovett, photographer of the Kilgore Rangerettes and Weeping Mary, TX, will be on hand to sign his new book, Kilgore Rangerettes, just out from the UT press tonight,…

Hope Ginsburg, visiting art ist at SMU and creator of participatory events called Sponges that investigate of the way knowledge is absorbed, exchanged, and represented, will speak at 6:30 p.m.,…

Eduardo Diaz, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, was appointed yesterday to lead the Smithsonian Latino Center, replacing Pilar O’Leary, who resigned amid ethics investigations in…

Conceptual sculptor Dennis Oppenheim will lecture at the University of Houston on Thursday, Nov. 13 at 6:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall, across the courtyard from Blaffer Gallery. Oppenheim’s Crystal…

Tonight at the Fort Worth Modern it’s Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, the Swiss/American collaborative team whose work is in the Modern’s exhibition No Room to Answer. Hubbard and Birchler…

Wayne Dolcefino’s expose of the misuse of Houston Arts Alliance money kicked off last night  on KTRK’s 10 O’clock news with a lot of frothing at the mouth: a brief…

UT Austin’s Creative Research Laboratory has teamed up with the Blanton museum to sponsor a series of events this winter titled "Mapping Exchange." Described in the wordy press release as…

Watch the fireworks on tonight’s 10 o’clock news on Houston’s channel 13, KTRK. Rumor has it that Wayne Dolcefino will unveil a series of undercover reports on the shady underbelly…

San Antonio realist painter Warren Hunter‘s works hang in the Alamo and the San Jacinto Monument; now he’s being honored with a Texas Historical Commission Historical Marker, dedicated Saturday at…

Mel Chin is at it again- saving the children through art. His new Paydirt project aims to collect $300 million in "fundred dollar bills" drawn by schoolchildren, then exchange them…

Andrei Rublev is Fredericka Hunter’s favorite film. Next Tuesday at 6:00 pm there will be a screening of the 1969 film epic by Andrei Tarkovsky at the MFAH.  Tarkovsky portrays…

There’s a new idea in art funding in Houston: The Idea Fund. Cooked up between The Warhol Foundation Initiative, Aurora Picture Show, DiverseWorks Artspace and Project Row Houses, the new…

Reel to Reel, a complex multisensory network kinetic sculptures by Texas-based artists Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher opens tonight, Friday, November 7, 6–9 p.m, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary…

Beginning tonight, Bobbindoctrin continues continues its tradition of cutting through the holiday treacle with a new collection of puppet shorts! Bobbindoctrin’s Fifth Annual Puppet Festival, local artists including Ciaran Chelloveck,…

Forget the west coast, let’s eat it now!

The USA, missing for several years, was found yesterday in Ohio.

The roll-call of new Houston art spaces swells again as Galeria Perdida, the project of artists Andres Janacua and Julie Spielman, announces its para/site series of installations at Project Rowhouses,…

Starting in the mid-1970s a number of Texas sculptors began to congregate in various academic settings to talk about sculpture on a regular basis, and they’re still talking: The 11th…

The Dallas Video Festival returns to the Angelika film center at Mockingbird Station, Dallas on November 7-9. Highlights will include Raiders: The Adaptation, the  amateur re-make of the Speilberg adventure…