Bill Davenport

Ubiquitous Chinese gunpowder artist Cai Guo-Qiang will expode a 10-by-162-foot drawing that will line the walls of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s new Chinese art gallery. Cai and his…

The former owner of a Clayton, Missouri art gallery who disappeared in 2005 was arrested Friday in Texas after being on the lam for five years. Brent A. Farris, 48,…

Found some of those embarrassing undergrad art projects while clearing out the studio? If they’re bad enough, the Museum of Bad Art, (MOBA) might be interested. If you aren’t already…

A new technique called "neuromarketing" blends market research with brain imaging technology. It turns out an electroencephalograph will reveal your preferences more accurately than you will. New Scientist used an…

A centuries old version of Paris (France, not Texas) lies beneath the city. The Wall Street Journal explores the Paris catacombs, which preserve the city’s 17th century layout – in…

Photographer Jordan Matter’s "Dancers Among Us" project captures "guerrilla  dance" in NY. Dancers from the Paul Taylor Dance Company perform incredible feats in libraries, parks, restaurants and the Mac Store.…

Protecting artist’s rights gets pretty dramatic when it involves the music industry. The New York Times follows a BMI music-copyright enforcer through bars, restaurants and strip clubs as she tries…

ArtInfo‘s Andrew Russeth posted his list of top ten artist websites. Art Fag City‘s Paddy Johnson found the 90% male list too auction-friendly and retaliated with her own favorites.

Arts Journal blogger Regina Hackett asks why artist Will Cotton isn’t being credited for the arresting visuals he provided for the 31 million hit Katy Perry video. Cotton, who recently…

Are our interior design choices influenced by our prehistoric predecessors? According to a German study, the way people arrange their bedrooms reflects the security concerns of early man. Does this…

65 years ago today, the Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Gizmodo presents survivors first-person accounts and photographs of the human aftermath.

Round three of The Idea Fund is now open for applications. The $4,000 cash awards will be given to "10 Texas-based, artist-generated or artist-centered projects that exemplify the unconventional, interventionist,…

The SEC has charged Dallas’s billionaire Wyly brothers, Sam and Charles, with hiding $550 million in trading profits by using an “an elaborate sham system of trusts and subsidiary companies".…

The Great Depression in living color? FSA photographers like Russell Lee recorded The Great Depression in starkly beautiful black and white images but they shot color as well. The Denver…

You can’t get this on Netflix. Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation’s opulent "video-opera," "The Rape of the Sabine Women" will be screened tonight only in Dallas. It’s part of…

The art world’s Bernie Madoff, New York art dealer Lawerence Salander was sentenced to six to 18 years in state prison on Monday. Salander was convicted of stealing $120 million…

It took eight months of digging but archaeologists have located the entrance to the tunnel that leads to the galleries beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan. The…

Novelist and father of seven, Frank Cottrell Boyce argues that kids helped rather than hindered his art. (Does this mean the Duggars should take up painting?)

Scientists are going to study Stendhal syndrome by monitoring the vital signs of tourists as they view Florence’s Palazzo Medici Riccardi. Will they swoon or won’t they?

A dried deer penis, bootleg "Lost" DVDs, a pitcher of salami, bongs, cow dung toothpaste, guinea pig meat, counterfeit viagra…just a few of the objects seized over five days at…