Bill Davenport

The picture on the front page of yesterday's NY Times had, of all things, high-school football. It appears there's a tiny town in northern Kansas that has a really good…

One character in Jonathan Marshall's video is dressed in an elaborate muppet-like bear suit that is on display in the show. The bear character crawls awkwardly on all fours thorough…

When I look at Jonathan Marshall's Book of Lenny at Art Palace the first thing I see is it's similarity to a lot of other art I've seen recently, but…

Dear Blog: Didn't win. Still too depressed to blog, although I've got a lot of nice pictures from Austin. It could have been worse. If I were going to admit…

Sunday, October 31, 2007 I actually saw Wayne Gilbert's show at the Art League last week, but Halloween seemed an appropriate time to discuss it. There's a lot to discuss;…

    Compare and contrast: two bus stops. The one at the top is on Post Oak, near the Galleria, and is part of their futuristic "space city" themed street…

The other bright spot of my Saturday afternoon was Michael Bise at Moody Gallery. The big question after his 2005 Widow show (also at Moody) was, "This is great, but…

I just came back from Artstorm, a new artist-run space in a garage apartment in Brookesmith. I arrived a couple hours before the big opening, naturally everything was chaos. The…

Last week, on Saturday, I spent a few hours at the Westheimer Block Party, lured there by email from Sean Carroll bearing promises of an alternative guerilla art fair. Instead,…

  I feel a little shy about liking this piece – it's so stereotypically feminine that I feel I need a woman to give me her perspective. I can imagine…

A few weeks ago I did a talk about art criticism at no tsu oH. I haven’t written about it until now because I’ve had to mull over the difficult…

I didn't know you could inflate metal like that. William Cannings has invented a way of puffing up hollow steel shapes so that they resemble vinyl. Eighteen new pieces at…

Faced with a broadcast accusation, I always feel as if it's directed at me. Thinking too much!? Not me! Schindler's is an aggressive piece; before anything else, I've got to…

Round Up was one of those disappointing shows that feel like the aftermath of a party. The gallery lights were dimmed; the floppy green tent that filled most of the…

Emily Sloan's SOS is four sculptures and four drawings cobbled together into an installation. It's jumbled and incoherent, but I don't think it's terminal.  The contrast between Sloan's overly careful…

I'm agreeing with Titus (re his most recent blog post: "Another hash house opens in the Design District") about artist statements- I find that the best way to keep from…

Heading over to the MFAH to catch the last day of the Brazilian Constructivist show, I had to divert to take a picture of the big red dinosaur out front.…

Suddath's new work is a folded geometric toy made from rusted pipe outside Lawndale's back door. Half plop-art and half industrial relic, it balances uneasily with doodle-like casualness, a little…

One of the most difficult things to write about is art for which I don't really have strong feelings. Writing an art blog this becomes a major issue. Here I…