Bill Davenport

The Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas (CADD) have opened the 4000s.f. CADD Art Lab next to Neiman Marcus in downtown Dallas. It’s a nonprofit space, but will feature art from…

I won the Yankee Candle Company pumpkin-carving contest in 1989. I was in grad school. It was a break from deconstructing the political subtext of my "real" work. I had…

Did you know San Antonio's AT&T Center boasts the largest art collection at any sports arena in the country? In case you missed it, they will host a wine tasting…

Downstairs at the CAM, there's a big box full of white, gelatinous stuff with the consistency of grits (without the butter). But where grits are warm and smell good, this…

Controversy is heating up over Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, scheduled to open at the Dallas Museum of Art in October. This new, even bigger reprise of…

Blogger Jonathan Jones tackles the growing prominence of artists’ statements in the interpretive mix in a post in the Guardian (UK)’s Art and Architecture blog. Apparently it’s a hot topic:…

London-based light artist Martin Richman has been selected by the San Antonio River Foundation, a public-private group bent on lenghtening the Riverwalk to create an aqueous paradise in downtown SA,…

After reading of Artpace’s call for new bed linens and table forks to refurbish the apartments that house its resident artists, benefactors Rosina Lee Yue and Bert A. Lies, Jr.,…

To the intense embarassment of the French, Unesco has threatened to put the bison-filled caves at Lascaux on its list of endangered sites after repeated quarreling has failed to repel…

Houston artist Bert Long has been named artist of the year by Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts. Long’s monumental Field of Vision was recently dedicated at the corner…

Brownsville is jumping in cyberspace! The dusty Art of Brownsville blog is posting nearly every day lately. Perhaps the most recent post on the technology and health department regulations concerning…

Damien Hirst, British artist famed for breaking boundaries and budgets, is again making history- bypassing art dealers by sending new works directly to auction, and scaing the bejesus out of…

Koelsch Gallery is just around the corner from my house. Although I've never visited their new location (until now), I watched with interest in 2006 as their steel building went…

A Sorry Kind of Wisdom, featuring Houston’s Katrina Moorhead, along with Kamrooz Aram, Jules de Balincourt, Michael Brown, Natalie Czech, Sam Durant, Wayne Gonzales, Paul McCarthy, and Daniel Rich opened…

ArtHouston, that Houston summertime event formerly known as "Introductions", will orchestrate the simultaneous opening of 36 galleries on Saturday July 12. Organized by the Houston Art Dealers Association, the free,…

San Antonio-based artist Dario Robleto gives a double shot of doublespeak this Saturday, July 12 in two public lectures, first at 11am at Houston’s Contemporary Art Museum, where his work…

The Italian government has declared the ancient city of Pompeii a "disaster zone" entitling it to additional government funds. A volcano of trash is erupting from nearby Naples, and thereatens…

For seven days, seven artists will labor to create Co-Lab’s first collaborative wall painting. Then, On Sunday, July 13, the public (that’s you) is invited to elaborate or completely destroy…

James Ulak, deputy director of the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art will  trace the evolution of the Japanese woodblock print in a lecture at the University of Texas, Austin. Held…

Houston sculptor Sharon Engelstein‘s Blowjob opens Thursday, July 10 in New York. A large-scale inflatable, three ‘rapid prototypes’ and a selection of drawings created from computer files fill ex-Texan clayton…