Bill Davenport

Skydive, a new Houston art space organized by ex-Core Fellow Sasha Dela, is finally opeing on Wednesday, October 22, 7-10 pm with Insurance is Not Always Assured curated by Jonathan…

The financial crisis has caught up with the white hot art market. Doomy echoes from the Frieze Art Fair, disappointing auction results everywhere. Sotheby’s stock is off 72.6 percent this…

The deadline for Texas artists to submit their best shot at the annual $50,000 Hunting Art Prize, sponsored annually by oil services company Hunting PLC. Texas artist 18 or older…

The refurbished, prizewinning Bayou City Art Festival camps out in downtown Houston this weekend, with booths by the Orange Show, Lawndale and 300 other artists and orgs. Saturday and Sunday,…

X-Ray Fluorescence: What Is It? And What Is It Doing in an Art Museum? The secrets of chemical fingerprinting as used to deduce the compositions and plot restoration strategies is…

This Friday, October 17, Christopher Rothko will speak at The Rothko Chapel about his father’s philosophical and creative genius.  Christopher Rothko is the editor of The Artist’s Reality, a book…

It’s official! Tickets to the first ever Dallas Art Fair go on sale to the public on November 1, 2008. The fair will be held at the Fashion Industry Gallery…

Thad Starr won $9168 for his prizewinning 1528 pound pumpkin at the 35th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off  in Half Moon Bay, California. That’s at $6 per pound.

In Ménerbes, France, there is a beautiful 18th century town house. Dora Maar, Picasso’s mistress from 1936-45 once lived there, and before her, General Baron Robert, one of Napoleon’s helpers.…

Tonight! Tuesday evenings at the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth brings Austin-based architect Lawrence Speck, whose projects include Houston’s Discovery Green park and the Austin Bergstrom Airport, to speak…

Malouf Abraham and his wife, Theresa are donating their home, converted from a historic Baptist church building, their extensive collections which include an original Norman Rockwell painting, and a pile…

Thunderbox Road, a show of twelve outhouses decorated by hill country artists, squatted in Boerne for Second Saturday’s art fest last weekend. A $10 per ticket people’s choice raffle awarded…

Dan Fabian spent the summer drawing, and drawing, and drawing. Apama Mackey’s containerized art gallery on the 11th St. art corridor is crowded with 37 witty pages that balance obtuse…

Presidential candidate John McCain has released his long-awaited arts policy statement, but it’s not very long. Requested  at the beginning of the campaign by the Americans for the Arts Action…

In case you missed them at Domy in Austin last month, experimental musicians Paul Winstanley and the Nameless sound ensemble (a remix of some participants in the David Dove Duo)…

Historical Design, a Manhattan art gallery, is suing former customer and former Enron executive Jeff Shankman, claiming that Shankman tried to extort money from the gallery under threat of denouncing…

On Saturday, October 11th the sidewalks along downtown San Antonio’s Houston St. are the canvas for  the 2008 edition of Artpace’s Chalk It Up event. Teams of school kids community…

Free Press Houston’s Westheimer Block Party returns this fall with more stages, bands, artists, and portable toilets than ever before. Saturday, October 11, from 12 noon-2am the 300-500 block of…

Fort Worth’s 7th annual Pottery in the Park fesitval brings "tableware, vases, and artistic pieces" to the grounds of the Lockheed Martin Recreation Association,  3400 Bryant-Irvin Rd. Fort Worth,  (next…

Roll up your sleeves: it’s time to wash and wax the public sculpture of Austin! This Saturday, October 11 at 10 am a professional conservator will explain the proper maintenance…