Bill Davenport

In partnership with Amegy Bank, Spacetaker’s Artist Resource Center will host three "Focus on Finances" Happy Hours this fall designed to introduce Houston artists to the business aspects of making…

Rachel Koper reports in the Austin Chronicle reports that James Housefield, adjunct curator at the Austin Museum of Art and beloved professor of art history at Texas State University is…

A couple of weeks ago the New York Times ran an article by Nicolai Ouroussoff that decried the pragmatism of today’s architects, wistfully longing for more dreaming and less building.…

Dallas artist, curator, and musician Paul Slocum, director of AND/OR gallery and prime mover of Tree Wave is this Tuesday’s speaker at the Fort Worth Modern’s Tuesday evening series. Tuesday,…

Venues for sculpture that includes a dab of performance are rare. Co-Lab, Austin will host a performance/installation titled: The Reprisal & Renovation of Discarded Ideas by Deena OH (aka Nanobangbang)…

It’s Hunting Art Prize time again! This year is the prize’s 29th, but it’s fourth go at Texas. Hunting PLC, an oil services company, will give $50,000 to one lucky…

You’ve got another week! Artpace, the prestigious San Antonio residency program, has extended their Open Call for Texas Artists until Friday, September 12 at 5 pm. Applications must be submitted…

Youtube, while providing unprecedented exposure for independent media artists, also provides unprecedented permanence. Richie Budd conjures the video ghosts of the nineties with three new/old good/bad art collective era videos:…

The MFAH’s education department has a mascot! The new donkey-riding-an-elephant logo could be a crypto-political statement, but the double-decker beastie will be rolled out on at the museum’s Target Free…

Mayra Cruz, founder of the Art of Brownsville blog, has announced that "for the sake of my health and for peace of mind", she will be handing over the reins…

Burned, banned, ignored, reviled: modern art has been all these things, but nothing’s so cruel as carelessness. Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center has misplaced a 1921 Fernand Leger…

Gene Hathorn, a convict on death row in Huntsville since 1985 has agreed to give his body, should he be executed, to the Danish-based artist Marco Evaristti, who plans to…

Vandals have heavily damaged the tile murals at the shrines of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Virgin of Fatima atop Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico, near El…

Legendary Houston artist/entertainer/entrepreneur Jim Pirtle is having a show at New York’s Cue Foundation, curated by legendary Houston artists/entertainers the Art Guys. Pirtle’s work would not be complete without a…

Katrina and its aftermath once again  provide dramatic media leverage to contemporary art! Just as everyone else was leaving, British street art mega-star Banksy visited the city, or paid someone…

The Pope has declared  Martin Kippenberger’s wooden sculpture Zuerst die Fusse (feet first) blasphemous. The piece, on view at the Muselon museum in Bolzano, Italy, so enraged one government official…

Over the weekend, Duke,Deon, and Treon Rick of Sketch Klubb painted a huge fetal cowboy mural at DOMY books, Austin, similar to their recent project at  DOMY owner Dan Fergus’…

The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC), headquartered in San Antonio, has been awarded $475,000 from the Ford Foundation to support the NALAC Fund for the Arts. which…

The weather’s still unrelivedly hot, but school is back in session, Atlantic hurricanes are being assigned names near the middle of the alphabet, and Glasstire’s Fall Preview comes out this…

The University of Texas has scored 28 modern sculptures to strew about it’s Austin Campus as part of their new Landmarks public art program. The idea is that these works,…