Bill Davenport

La Reunion TX , the utopian community-cum-artist-residency program in Oak Cliff section of Dallas, is fixing to remove some unwanted trees and is looking for eco-friendly executioners. On February 2,…

Houston Arts alliance will begin accepting applications for its latest round of Individual Artist, Artist Projects and New Work Fellowships on January 7. For artists who have lived in the…

Black mold threatens cave art at Lascaux! The French government takes emergency action, spraying a fungicide on the walls to fend off the the second mold attack since a new…

The new appropriations bill for fiscal year 2008 approved by Congress before the holidays and signed into law by President Bush the day after Christmas increases federal funding for the…

The 1620 Keene St. Warehouse in Houston burned to the ground in the early morning hours of the new year. Firefighters arrived at 1:15 am to find the building fiercely…

Portland, Oregon artist MK Guth comes to Houston’s Diverseworks on January 11th to enlist participants in her new interactive work, Ties of Protection, a long Rapunzel -like "interactive braid sculpture"…

Dallas-based musician/hacker/retro-computing artist Paul Slocum’s "Time-Lapse Homepage 21," a one-minute video that collapses the development of a single personal page in 1,200 screenshots at 20 frames per second will be…

I’m creeped-out by the art as an industry viewpoint of Randy Cohen and the Houston Arts Alliance (see "Happy happy happy new year!" in the December 31 newswire). Just take…

In November, Americans for the Arts Vice President of Policy and Research Randy Cohen spoke to Houston arts, tourism and economic development leaders, advising them on how to influence greater…

Judging from attendance figures released on December 19, last year was the best ever for the Dallas Museum of Art. Out of a total of 641,000 visitors, 130,000 saw Van…

Art City Austin is looking to spend $25,00 on temporary artist projects to spiff up its annual fair, formerly known as the Austin Fine Arts Festival and transform the banks of…

Houston artists Greg Donner and David Krueger are working on a solar-powered straw and metal building in the desert two hours south of Marfa. About seven miles north of Big…

The American Wandering Club invites artists to burn their works from 2007 on New Year's Eve. At 4:44 pm (in honor of the 44 years since Argentine artist Marta Minujin created…

Even Texans can take a lesson in thinking big from the Egyptian government, which plans to copyright the pyramids, reports yesterday's Guardian (UK). The plan is to use royalties generated…

The Joan Mitchell Foundation has just announced the recipients of its 2007 painters and sculptors grants. Among the 25 winners were a slew of Texans: Dario Robleto and Alex Rubio…

John Alexander's retrospective gets a resounding thump from Blake Gopnik in today's Washington Post. The show, which just opened at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum in Washington D.C., was organized…

German artist Claudia Hinsch, Chinati Foundation Artist-in-residence, will have an opening Thursday, December 27, 6-8pm at the Locker Plant on East Oak Street in Marfa.

Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has won the 2007 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, a $50,000 award given out by New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem. Founded in 2006, the first award…

The Chinese have rebuilt the Astrodome as an opera house, the Russians still can’t send their art to London, lest the Brits confiscate it, Roberta Smith rails against her own…

Aurora Picture Show, famed microcinema in Houston’s Sunset Heights is looking for a new home, but not a new building.  They plan to take their beloved church-cum-theater on the road,…