Bill Davenport

San Antonio’s East Side is invigorated by the 4th Annual Dignowity Hill Pushcart Derby, Saturday, July 24, 5-8 pm. San Antonio artists and local organizations race uniquely-designed pushcarts for speed…

The Lawndale Art Center’s newish Artist Studio Residency program application deadline is coming up fast: : May 30, 2008 by 4 pm! It’s a good deal- three artists get studio…

Dallas uber-collectors Howard and Cindy Rachofsky are selling off Jeff Koons’ Ballon Flower (magenta) at Christie’s, London at the end of next month in order to better focus on American…

Well, the Surrealist Manifesto (and a packet of other Andre Breton documents) were sold for 3.6 million euros (5.6 million dollars), seven times what was estimated! Meanwhile, back in Oslo,…

American YouthWorks , an organization that runs chareter schools for at-risk kids in Austin, is having it’s Spring Art Show and Silent Auction, tomorrow night. Artwork by students and Austin…

The only known complete manuscript of Andre Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 – one of the most influential documents in modern art – will be sold by Sotheby‘s in Paris…

The Art Colony Association, producers of the Bayou City arts Festival in Houston’s Memorial Park, handed out checks totaling $96,798, to it’s 17 nonprofit partners last week:  Art League Houston;…

The recipients of the Artadia Awards 2008 Houston at Three $15,000 awards went to Delilah Montoya, Katrina Moorhead, and Floyd Newsum, Jr. Seven $1,500 awards went to Mequitta Ahuja, Dawolu…

Artists Billy Hassell and Tracy Hicks discuss art and ecology with Dr. Andrew Kasner, the Director of Bird Conservation at audubon Texas, Brent Brock of conservation group Treewalkers International and…

All entries that completed the 24 Video Race will be screened at the Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird, at Mockingbird Station, Dallas on Tuesaday thru Thursday, May 20-22 from…

I got an email a couple days ago asking me to get angry about The Orphan Works Act of 2008, Bill # H.R.5889, now in Congress. The law, basically, limits…

Houston Arts Alliance will host a talk by "cultural analyst" Patricia Martin, who has coined the term "RenGen" to describe youngish people selected for targeted arts marketing. She has written…

Nick Adams, the former Galveston County Daily News photographer alllegedly roughed up, arrested, and charged with interfering with police as he continued to snap pictures of a police arrest at…

ArtStorm gallery is moving from it’s funky garage apartment to a new space in the Caroline Collective building, a co-working co-workplace in Houston’s Museum District.  Beginning in June 2008, ArtStorm…

The Scholar’s Eye: Contemporary Ceramics from the Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, organized by MFAH curator Cindi Strauss opens on May 18. In the spring of 2007, the…

Discovery Green park in downtown Houston hosts an evening of dance, then film on Friday, May 16. Beginning at 7pm the University of Houston Dance Ensemble and Travesty Dance Group…

Dallas’ 24-Hour Video Race will begin Friday, May 16th at midnight at the Magnolia Lounge in Fair Park, located at 1121 First Avenue in Dallas, when up to 100 filmaking…

The online entry form for the Texas Biennial is finally up and working. Cripes!

Mayor Bill White will join architect Yoshio Taniguchi for the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Asia Society Texas Center. 10 am, Thursday, May 15 at 1370 Southmore Boulevard, Houston. A…

Houston artist Christine Bruni Fondren lost her long and courageous battle with metastatic breast cancer on Thursday morning. Fondren was born in 1967 in Houston, received her B.A. from the…