Bill Davenport

Houston’s Dan Havel makes a triumphant return to his native Minnesota with his new show opening at at Minneapolis’ Icebox gallery. The work, titled "Open 24 Hours", was made using …

Regarding the whole Christian Viveros-Faune/Village Voice thing : Tyler Green’s finger of shame is pointing the wrong way. Instead of scolding Christian Viveros-Faune for failing to disengage himself from competing…

Houston collector and pioneer dealer in photography John Cleary passed away yesterday morning after a one month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 70. Last week the Houston Chronicle ran…

Friends of the Spiral Jetty are organizing a protest against oil drilling operations in a nearby section of the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Ironically, it is feared that the project…

Wasn’t that Paola Morsiani in the New York Times yesterday? The former curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, now at the Cleveland Museum of Art , was among a…

The Aurora Video Library open house and Menil Bookstore deck party happens on Saturday, February 2 from 5-8 pm at 1524 Sul Ross, Houston. Light refreshments and an outdoor screening…

Last week Tyler Green’s blog Modern Art Notes argued that Village Voice art critic Christian Viveros-Faune’s work on two commercial art fairs constituted a conflict of interest that disqualified him.…

Perpatetic and well-decorated Houston artist Mel Chin gives a lecture and exclusive screening of Running After Disaster 9-11/9-11, Chile/U.S.A , his hand-drawn animated film, with a book signing of the…

In their continuing effort to make Houston not only tipsy, but a better place to live, Poison Girl, 1641 Westheimer in Houston, donates the profits from an evening’s bar tab…

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will host FREE preview screenings of Antonio Ferrera and Albert Maysles’ HBO Documentary The Gates , which chronicles Christo and Jeanne-Claude‘s mammoth (what…

Box 13, a new nonprofit artists studio/exhibition space signed a three-year lease yesterday for a 13,000 square foot building at 6700 Harrisburg at Cesar Chavez in Houston.  The building, built…

Houston artist Kent Dorn’s show Monument opened last night  at Clint Roenisch gallery in Toronto.

A bunch of free events Saturday to celebrate the opening of the Design Life Now : National Design Triennial at the Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum: notably a free panel with…

From a recent press release about a symposium in Karlsruhe, Germany. Maybe it was translated poorly: "OUR LITERAL SPEED manifests the imperatives that materialize the theoretical and the pedagogical." If…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will host a symposium devoted to the eighteenth-century Italian "prince of painters" Pompeo Batoni on Friday, January 25, and Saturday, January 26,. Edgar Peters…

John R. Lane, director of the Dallas museum of art, announced the creation of the position of The Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA and María…

Peel Gallery in Houston is curating an amorphous experiment in vernacular design to coincide with Design Life Now : National Design Triennial opening at the CAM. Conceived by San Francisco…

Toby Kamps , Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, will give a talk on Brazilian artist Jac Leirner and her current exhibition of pieces made from everyday objects…

Phillip E. Collins, has announced his resignation as Chief Curator at Dallas’ African American Museum effective December 31, 2007.   He will focus on independent curatorial projects and will serve as…

The Washington Post has an interesting discussion of the appreciation and history of parking garages, even as the Israeli government pushes for more electric cars . Apparently the drive-by city…