Bill Davenport

Saturday, September 25, at 2pm Labotanica, Houston presents a Bone Making Event in support of the One Million Bones project on the national mall in 2013. Participants will showcase their…

Houston Chronicle arts writer Douglas Britt has hit the big time, not for his arts coverage, but for an instructional email he broadcast to the Houston art community, telling us…

Public presentations from labotanica’s [sic, capitalization] first six week residency program, School of Lattitutdes #1 happen Saturday, September 25, from 11am-5pm, with a closing reception from6-8pm. Organized around the theme…

A couple hundred free E-tickets to watch artist Cai Guo-Qiang create his big gunpowder drawing on Tuesday, October 5 and Wednesday, October 6 in Houston are available to the public…

The (new!) Visual Arts Center (VAC) at UT, Austin will host a staccato celebratory weekend of events to mark its grand opening from September 24-26. The expensive part of the…

A recent amendment to a 1990 federal law prohibiting the fakery of Native American arts and crafts now allows all federal law enforcement officers, not just the FBI, to investigate…

The Menil collection has announced plans to publish a catalog raisonné of the drawings of Jasper Johns, a companion volume to the catalogue raisonné of Johns’s paintings and sculptures to…

Fort Worth pilot, pawnbroker and art collector A.C. "Ace" Cook died Moday of pancreatic cancer. Mr. Cook’s impressive "Hockshop" collection of early Texas art has been on display at his…

A trove of unusual copper, terra-cotta and stone sculptures from the ancient West African city-state of Ife are coming to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston after their latest stop…

Workers at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi were rocked by a massive explosion and fire at a beachfront motel directly across the bay Thursday morning. The…

This winter Texas: a Sculpture Celebrating High School Football will be unveiled to coincide with the Superbowl. The 16-foot-tall assemblage of steel recycled from the demolished Texas Stadium and scraps…

The latest addition to the University of Houston’s public art collection, the Art Guys’ The Statue of Four Lies, will be unveiled at noon on Wednesday, September 22  on the UH…

For the past three decades, Texas artists have delivered their sculptures to the annual Abilene Outdoor Sculpture show. On Saturday, Sept 18, nearly all the artists who ever participated in…

The Mitchell Center and Aurora Picture Show will present a three-day media dig right in the heart of Texas. For Media Archeology’s kick-off on Thursday, September 16th, the Houston Chapter…

Everyone’s in on it: Ballroom Marfa, The Washington Spectator, The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio, and Marfa Book Company, are presenting Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border,…

In August of 2005 photographer Jeff Wilson set out to catalog empty Texas high school football stadiums for Texas Monthly magazine. Now the photos have been collected and, introduced by…

Jan Jarboe Russell of the San Antonio Express-News dissects the history and future of of Luminaria, the city’s answer to Paris’ Nuit Blanche and Chicago’s Looptopia festivals. Booster-inspired, but underfunded,…

The Dallas Architecture Forum and the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects have established the David Dillon Memorial Scholarship in honor of the Dallas Morning News architecture critic…

James Magee and his mystical land-art installation, "The Hill" outside El Paso are the subject of a show at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and have sparked a spate…

Nameless Sound is bringing together a Tex-Mex pack of avant-garde musicians to improvise and collaborate at two Houston venues next weekend: on Friday and Saturday, Acuerdo de Musica Libre/ Free…