Bill Davenport

Texas sculptors James Surls and Jesús Moroles will be among those to speak at the Glenn Harper Texas Uprising Sculpture Symposium at San antonio’s Blue Star Art Center on Saturday.…

Tucked into one of the cargo-container annexes of the new Apama Mackey Gallery, Lisa Marie Godfrey’s Haunt exudes an introverted pathos, rehashing the well-trodden contrast between cute and abject as…

Photojournalist Ben DeSoto, Rick Lowe, Founder of Project Row Houses, and Alvia Wardlaw, Director of the Texas Southern University Museum get together to discuss Rhapsody in Black and White: Charles…

Houston’s favorite microcinema, Aurora Picture Show host its favorite annual event: Extremely Shorts 11. The cream of video works under 3 minutes in length (as juried by avant garde film…

Bert Long’s eye-catching installation Field of Vision will have its official dedication ceremony this Saturday, June 28 at 6pm. The permanent installation, a field of cement eyes on pedestals near…

Ten new paintings by Janaki Lennie have been installed in custom niches in the University of Houston Downtown’s recently completed College of Business building. Lennie received her MFA from UH…

 Real Time: Mobile Phone Video is travelling from the Dallas Contemporary to the Pompidou Center in Paris in June 2008 to show at the Pocket Films Festival.  There’s also an…

Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts presents a talk by South Texas College of Law professor Phillip Page about copyright, its myths, uses, and abuses on Thursday, June 26,…

RE: Deer Head Debacle ICON: trophy deer head SUBGENRE: ornate HOOK: masculine/feminine Jennifer Khoshbin, San Antonio, 2008 Elaine Bradford, Sweatered Elk, 2004   Ethan Moore, 2008 Nancy Josephson   Rachel…

Photo-marketing guru Mary Virginia Swanson will give a lecture to benefit the Houston Center for Photography’s John Cleary Library on Thursday, June 26 at 7:30 pm. Swanson’s talk, FINDING YOUR…

Tony Cragg‘s outdoor sculpture Line of Thought was unveiled last Monday near the entrance to Rosewood Court office tower at the corner of Cedar Springs and Pearl in Dallas. It’s…

Over at UH’s Blaffer Gallery, it was summer vacation. A half-dozen student gallery attendants were chatting companionably at the front desk, and had to spread out to their stations, dutifully…

International artist-in-residence Florencia Levy from Buenos Aires, Argentina is opening her studio, unit #7 at CentralTrak, Dallas’ new artist residency program at 800 Exposition Ave. 6pm- 4am?

ArtsHouston‘s publisher, Frank Rose, has announced that he will be handing over the reins of the magazine he has spent a year revitalizing. Rose and his wife Kara are leaving…

KERA public radio in Dallas has a blog. Their blog brings us news that the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s blog is posting again after a two month hiatus.…

Above Ground, an assessment of the needs of aging artists in New York City finds that, on the whole they’re doing just fine. The study, by the Research Center for…

A new lawsuit between mystic NY artist Alex Grey and Juan Pablo Fernandez, online poster reseller, probes the murk of fair use of images of artworks.  Fernandez is buying Grey’s…

Houston’s Discovery Green park keeps it real with a "soulful rock-art collaboration" this Friday evening, June 20. At 7 pm artist Ann "Sole Sister" Johnson leads and art class using…

Houston: It’s Worth It and the Hermann Park Conservancy are looking for "unique, surprising or just generally charming" phrases about Hermann Park. Some will be etched into stones as part…

The Axum obelisk, looted by Mussolini from Ethiopia in 1937 during Italy’s johnny-come-lately adventure in African colonialism will be re-erected on a plateau in northern Ethiopia this month, after spending…