Bill Davenport

Jeff Wheeler organizes picture after picture as sort of pared-down panhandle landscape in his signature orange and yellow stripes, using it as stage set for a parched circus of iconic…

A PhD for Artists is the topic of a brown-bag conversation being presented at the CAA conference (20-23 February 2008) in Dallas by Dr. Domenico de Clario and Dr. Robert…

San Antonio’s Charlie Morris will spend next Summer in Spain on two residencies: 2 weeks finding common ground between the arts and the natural and social sciences at the Centre…

The 11th Street Cleaners, Billed as "Houston’s most creative band", being made up of "visual artists and journalists" will play at Wade Wilson Fine art, Houston at 3 pm Sunday.…

The American Wandering Club, Art History Association, Association of Student Sculptors and L. Balli present the first in a series of films celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Prague Spring.…

The University of Houston architecture department has received over $1 million in grants from the Houston Endowment and the Meadows Foundation to support initiatives in green building. The grants, disbursed…

Austin Video Bee released its first DVD compilation, Failure, on February 11. Formed in late summer 2007, Austin-based AVB promotes experimental work and under-represented and female video and performance artists.…

This Valentine’s day, snuggle up with ArtForum Contributing Editor Katy Siegel and Art in America writer Wade Saunders at the first in this year’s  VIEWPOINT lectures at UT Austin.  Siegel…

Texas Christian University’s Art and Art History Department inaugurates its new art gallery, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, this Friday evening. Their first show, Material Culture, curated by Fran Colpitt, presents…

Sierra Ridge Apartments in Austin has been selected as home to Edible Estates Regional Prototype Garden #5, an edible garden by radical gardener Fritz Haeg. Commissioned by Arthouse in conjunction…

Ann Wilson, associate director of the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin since May 2004, has been appointed interim director of the museum, effective March…

The Tuesday Evenings series at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth brings Dallas-based artist David Bates to discuss his work on February 12 at 7 pm. Free admission.

 Houston artist Kathy Kelley will unveil "Suckling is Continuous", a new year-long public art project incorporating "found tire elements" (a.k.a. used inner tubes), at the Freed Art and Nature Park…

Critic Ken Johnson praised Rackstraw Downes‘ plein-air paintings like Pulaski Skyway Crossing the Hackensack River in this morning’s New York Times, calling them "engagingly intimate", even as he admitted they…

According to it’s press release, Sean Carrol’s b.s. Houston Artblog gets 6,000 hits a month and has had 37,000 pageviews since launch, with visits from 113 countries and every state…

On Saturday, February 9, 2008, Only in Houston will present their second annual Only in Houston Award to the Art Guys on Saturday. The award ceremony, to be held at…

Elizabeth Hunt Blanc, director of Dallas’ McKinney Avenue Contemporary, has accepted the position as Deputy Director of The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University. Programming at the MAC will continue…

San Antonio artist Stuart Allen‘s second annual Central Market grocery bag kite fly was recently held on the beach at Port Aransas. In 2007, the Texas-based Central Market stores began…

Debbie McNulty will join Houston Endowment as a grant officer working with arts organizations on February 25, leaving her post as executive director of Art League Houston. McNulty fills the…

Houston artist Robyn O’Neil wandered onto the Howard Stern show last Thursday, semi-baring her "incredible" body to woo Benjy Bronk and Artie. according to  the show’s highlights page, "Since Artie…