Bill Davenport

Artpace is getting set to hand out up to $5000 in travel grants for San Antonio artists. Just tell them who you are, where you want to go, and why…

Since modernism’s beginnings, obscurity has been a useful strategy for confounding the bourgeoisie, twitting the elite, and excluding the peasants. Every utterance is meaningful, and the meaning of opaque rhetoric…

Fotofest’s Fine Print Auction And Fundraiser is this evening at the Doubletree Hotel, downtown Houston. Cocktails, and auction preview at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30, live auction at 7:30. You’ll…

Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, turns 35 in March. The party’s on Thursday, March 13 at 7 p.m. with live music by the 11th Street…

Houston artist Dixie Friend Gay and her crew have completed the installation of a vast mosaic mural at Chevron’s new headquarters in Covington, Louisiana. In the 12’ x 24’ mosaic,…

Dr. Sketchy, a risqué fusion of gentlemen’s club and life drawing class has made it’s Houston debut. The phenomenon, franchised out of Brooklyn and promoted locally by by Katie Laird…

Arts Houston magazine publisher Frank Rose has been served with papers in a lawsuit claiming defamation in a youtube video. ("Paint it black " Newswire 12/19/07). The 16-minute video "Black…

The Ft. Worth Modern will install it’s second large outdoor sculpture later this month. Conjoined by the New York-based artist Roxy Paine is a 40-foot-tall  stainless steel sculpture of two trees…

Houston’s newly-restored Beer Can House made it to page 9 of he NY Times this morning. The legendary structure, clad in 50,00 aluminum beer can is the masterwork of John…

A new marketing campaign is poised to re-make Oklahoma as the "State of Creativity." Really. The Oklahoma Creativity Project’s website collects and shares information about happening people like 28-year-old David…

Buffalo Bayou Art Park opens Decking the Path to Blessedness, a monumental outdoor photo installation by Austin artist Barry Stone with a picnic at the Sabine Street Art Park, just…

The latest post on the street-art photo blog Dirty Third Streets has examples of Houston’s new graffiti ordinance in action: the city can fine owners of property tagged with graffiti…

At 12:15 this afternoon, New Zealand artist Julie Kipa will show traditional Maori tattoo images, discuss her work, and the contemporary art of New Zealand. On Friday and Saturday, March…

Recent tax fraud investigations have turned up widespread inflation in the value of artworks donated to museums, spawning reformist rumblings from economists and the Congress, report Jason Felch and Doug…

Vito Acconci , renowned poet and performance artist, now turned architect/landscape designer will speak about his newer stuff , not involving masturbation, at the Houston MFA on Wednesday at 7pm.…

National art experts congregate in El Paso for the 19th National Association of Latino Arts and Culture’s regional arts training workshop March 7-8. Latino artists, arts leaders and arts administrators…

When you’ve followed an artist’s work for as long as I’ve followed Aaron Parazette’s the first artist you compare him to is himself, and he’s got a lot to live…

Mel Zeigler, artist and impresario will lecture on Tuesday, March 4 at Houston’s Diverseworks. Zeigler is doing a project in Houston this spring involving 4000 balloons that he calls Downtown…

The Tuesday Evenings series at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth brings Katrina Moorhead, a Houston-based artist who was recently awarded the prestigious 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize and included…

A one-day show and sale of Obama-themed art is being held Sunday, March 2 at 2401 Fannin St. in midtown Houston. Sponsored by the i10 Fine Art Agency and curated…