Bill Davenport

At parties, we talk about Houston and our observations always match: it’s an easy place to live, we never expected to stay, two years and we’re outta here, nobody knows…

For five weeks this summer, Diverseworks’ 3000 square foot main gallery has been turned over to artists Eric Zapata, Maria Guzman, Tina Kotrla, and Kia Neill, with only a blog…

In a myserious nocturnal tumble, a glazed terra-cotta lunette by the Renaissance sculptor Andrea Della Robbia apparently slipped off it’s steel shelf, flipped in the air and crashed to the…

Caroline Webb, a sophmore at Nothwestern University in Chicago, will intern at Dallas’ McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC). She plans to major in Art History.

Make Magazine‘s Maker Faire will visit Austin October 18-19 and is scheduling appontments for techies, artists, artist-techies, and other renaissance persons at the Austin Childrens Museum Sunday, July 20 from…

Hilary Harnischfeger’s debut show at Never Work gallery on New York’s Lower East Side is praised by Keran Rosenberg in a capsule review intoday’s New York Times.  The accompanying photo…

The Jeff Koons Balloon Flower (Magenta) that used to grace Dallas’ Rachofsky collection was shipped to Germany for polishing, then displayed in London’s St. James Park before its sale, sold…

ARTPIX has received an NEA grant for $15,000! The grant, one of several going to Texas institutions, is  aimed at creating "access to artistic excellence," and is not intended directly…

Cantanker Visual Art Magazine is looking for art for its juried summer catalog. New works that are exactly 7×7" and loosely fit into the idea of "transitions" will be juried…

The International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen announces the return of its free admission program, made possible by a $50,000 gift from Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas III…

Each year, the Dallas Contemporary names an artist, an art professional, an a patron as Contemporary Art Legends. This year’s honorees are Houston artist Joe Havel, journalist Quin Mathews and…

Performance artist Jimmy Kuehnle, recent MFA graduate at UTSA arrives hot off the plane from Japan, to hit The Laredo Arts Center this Thursday, July 3, in a big, red…

Arthouse may be in Austin, but it’s new blog is right here!

Houston artists Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch are staring a new artspace on the 9th floor of the Sky Bar Building, 3400 Montrose, Houston. Their new space, SKYWING, aims to…

Erected by Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, this clever piece of environmental sculpture, a fake Prada store, sits on highway 90 outside Marfa. I just heard about it.…

Fingerprint experts are excited by the possibility that a fingerprint, presumably that of Jackson Pollock, was copied from a can of blue paint he used on one of his last…

I’ve had several people comment on the deer-head blog, pointing out additional artists who use deer-head trophy imagery. In order to stay focused, I consciously chose examples that shared an…

San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez underwent open-heart surgery this week to replace an enlarged aorta. Artist Nate Cassie said the surgery went well and Chuck is recovering fine, reports Dan…

After 140 artist/tenants, the apartments that house the residents at Artpace need a facelift. The San Antonio art space has therefore created a registry at Bed, Bath, and Beyond (under…

Pecha Kucha, a cultish wave of accelerated slide lectures has taken root in Texas. Last Thursday, artists, musicians and others each showed 20 slides for 20 seconds each to form…