Bill Davenport

The Globe and Mail explores savvy and stupid strategies arts organizations are using to promote themselves via social media.

YouTube has increased its upload limit from 10 to 15 minutes! For some this means their video meisterstück can now play in its entirety. For others this means: "More wacky…

The arts had a over a billion dollar total economic impact on North Texas in 2009, according to a just released study by the Business Council for the Arts. But,…

Turrell fans and Quakers rejoice, James Turrell’s Skyspace in the Live Oak Friends Meeting House is open again after a more than two year closure. The roof window, which frames…

Whether or not the $45 trove of glass photographic plates bought at a California garage sale is worth $200 million is still being debated. Some experts think they were created…

The last roll of Kodachrome film Kodak produced was developed this July. If you’ve still got some exposed Kodachrome in a drawer somewhere, one of the only commercial labs in…

D Magazine‘s Front Row blog launches its monthly film series addressing the question “What film do you believe people living in Dallas today need to see?” Public Trust gallery owner…

Austin-based Cantanker Magazine has issued a call for entries for its catalog and exhibition titled "The Ambiguous Object." Jurors for the project are Cook & Ruud, the art think tank…

As questions about the competition arise, the Guggenheim’s YouTube video art Biennial has announced its panel of judges, which will include the likes of Laurie Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Shirin…

In her blog, Regina Hackett takes on Donald Kuspit’s claim that "artists create but need the intelligence of critics to animate that creation" as she discusses the critics on reality…

Tar balls and sludge pools from the BP disaster are hard to miss but now black light is being used to find much more subtle and widely spread oil contamination…

With a subterranean building and an excess of controversial art (heavy emphasis on the scatological) Tasmanian mathematician and professional gambler David Walsh is opening the Museum of Old and New…

"Roads of Arabia" at the Louvre is, according to a New York Times review, filled with startling revelations. Containing hundreds of artifacts never before seen outside Saudi Arabia and judging…

Geekdom is skewering BP’s "incredibly amateur" Photoshopped spill response photos. Gizmodo has a detailed review of all the moronic errors (half a boat and a control tower in the sky)…

If you are actually still watching Bravo’s "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" you may have noticed that the challenges, well, suck. Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City and…

Paddy Johnson at Art Fag City takes on jargon-y art writing in "The Problem With Academic Language Isn’t Big Words." Her post got some great comments, one of which led…

Less than pleased with their digital royalties, authors like Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, Martin Amis, are bypassing publishers and using Amazon to sell e-books straight to readers. The creation of…

Anjali Gupta, Art Lies Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, is leaving the organization to pursue independent projects. A brilliant writer and editor, Gupta was a dynamic force behind the publication, bringing…

The Video Association of Dallas’ The Second Program opens with Brent Green‘s quirky and acclaimed film "Gravity was Everywhere Back Then." Described by The New York Times as "A tinkerer’s…

Christie’s will auction off artworks from the collection of Dennis Hopper in New York on November 10-11. Hopper, who famously bought Warhol’s first soup can at his first show, was…