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Gabriele Galimberti - The Ameriguns & Toy Stories: Artist Talk & Reception
Internationally acclaimed Gabriele Galimberti’s first US exhibition of “Ameriguns” & “Toy Stories” comes to Austin! The people in these images are from all walks of life, with no particular political party, race, culture, or gender in favor. Ameriguns and Toy Stories deliver striking images exploring the timely issues of gun culture and the impact of modern inequalities on children.Fri. Apr. 12, 6pm-9pmLydia Street Gallery -
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Romeo y Juliet
A bilingual adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most cherished works, Romeo y Juliet recounts the tale of two star-crossed lovers, daughters from the feuding houses of Capulet and Montague, reimagined in Alta, California in the 1840’s prior to the annexation of California to the United States.Apr. 10-21UT Theatre and Dance
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Pat Dean and Friends
You might call him The Dean of Austin Comedy – but that's a hacky kind of jape, isn't it? Call him instead a very funny man who's rightfully adored in this crowded scene. And whose "and Friends" are sure to be among the best standups in town.Wed., Feb. 21, 8pm. $7-11. -
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Pop-Up Magazine: Winter 2018
Well, okay, we'll stash this event in Theatre, too – because it's performed onstage and it's not dancing. But what it is, is a series of live, multimedia-enhanced presentations. Like a really good print magazine come to life, is the idea. Featuring The Nod podcast's Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings on "Black History Art" painting; filmmaker Veena Rao on the lifelong friendship between two 100-year-old World War II army nurses; National Geographic photographer David Guttenfelder on the crisis in North Korea; and photojournalist Kirsten Luce on life on the Texas/Mexico border (scored by Austin's own Adrian Quesada). RECOMMENDED!Wed., Feb. 21, 7:30pm. $29. -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Malcolm Bucknall
A chameleon-like eclecticism has characterized his work to various distinct periods of art-historical influences and beyond, but the common thread in Bucknall's imagery is an animal-human mix. It's a vivid personal mythology that we've reveled in before and are excited to see the newest manifestations of here.Through March 3
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AARC: Beyond Bollywood
"Indian-Americans Shape the Nation," a traveling exhibition created by the Smithsonian Institution, makes an artifact-rich stop at the Asian American Resource Center – with a vibrant collection of photographs, art, and interactive learning stations.Through April 8 -
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André Aciman: Call Me By Your Name
Of course you know about this book already: Somebody made it into a mooooooovie! And everybody loves mooooooovies! Still, all snark aside, this coming-of-age love story is a wonderful and lovely thing, and, thanks to the author's consummate skill, a delight to read. (In addition to being, yes, almost equally wonderful as a film.) Pro tip: Get you a copy, have it signed.Wed., Feb. 21, 7pm -
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Art on 5th: Kenneth Tom Olsen
The Danish artist returns to Austin with his collection of spray paints, acrylics, and stencils, rendering new batches of works on the spot.Through Feb. 25 -
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Art.Science.Gallery.: SOLAR
The PrintAustin wonderments continue at this excellent venue, featuring prints about the sun or made by our sun (as in solar printmaking, cyanotyping, or printing with photosensitive inks) or for the sun (concerning sun- or star-related cultural and natural history). And, note, this Saturday is the last day before the gallery leaves Canopy forever.Through Feb. 24 -
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Atelier 1205: Inaugural Group Show
Ceramics, drawing, painting, and sculpture by 17 Austin artists inaugurates this new gallery. Works by Richard Ashby, Valérie Chaussonnet, Thomas Cook, Elizabeth Decker, Jennifer Hill, Soña Holman, Madeline Irvine, David Lamplugh and the rest are sure to delight and dazzle your eyes.Through March 41205 E. Cesar Chavez -
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Butridge Gallery: Refigured: Radical Realism
"Showcasing some of Austin’s finest realist figurative artists, across a variety of media, with their newest, most exciting work." Sounds almost humdrum, right? Just another standard gallery promo? But, listen – you know how something can be so powerful as to, how we say, fuck you up but in a good way? Well, this is one of those things. This is one of those exhibitions. At the Dougherty, yes. Because Jennifer Balkan and Dana Younger and Alejandra Almuelle and Karen Maness and Felice House and more.Through March 10 -
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Carver Museum: Juntos/Together
This section of the comprehensive FotoATX program features vivid photo-documentation of "Black and Brown Activism in Austin from 1970 to 1983."Through April 11 -
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Carver Museum: State of Ascension
Mixed-media vessel works by Rejina Thomas, featuring art she created during the past two decades, with themes positioning the womb as a metaphorical looking glass from which viewers experience and understand the world.Through Feb. 28 -
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Harry Ransom Center: Vaudeville!
This exhibition reveals the story of where American entertainment all began, featuring photographs, manuscripts, and other documents and artifacts related to Harry Houdini, Mae West, W.C. Fields, Bert Williams, George M. Cohan, Burns & Allen, Tony Pastor, the Nicholas Brothers, Barbette, and others. Step right up, citizen, as our own Robert Faires tells you more about it right here!Through July 15. Free. -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Ellsworth Kelly: Prints
The late artist's Austin edifice will soon be unveiled at the Blanton – whose own Kelly exhibition is another gorgeous thing indeed – and here this elegant Downtown gallery presents an exhibition of lithographs he made between 1966 and 2012.Through March 31 -
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Lozano Long Conference: Create, Consume, Collect
UT's Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies presents the 2018 conference, considering "The Lives of Colonial Latin American Artifacts." Three days of informative panels and keynote speeches here, with an opening concert from Austin Baroque Orchestra.Feb. 21-23. Free. -
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Mexic-Arte Museum: Fotografía y Nuevos Medios
Amassed over the last 35 years, the museum’s newest exhibition explores the plurality of resistance, highlighting varied lineages of Latinx and Latin-American resistance. Here's our full review of the show. Bonus: The concurrent "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta" exhibition features the work of 30 printmakers.Through May 27. $10. -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Through Our Eyes
Here's an exhibition from Sun City's Special Interest Group of the Visual Arts.Through Feb. 28 -
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RecSpec Gallery: 18+
A look at bodies, eroticism, and sexuality from the perspective of 23 women and nonbinary artists including Abi Daniel, Joanne Leah, Inés Estrada, Annalise Gratovich, Annie Alonzi, Drew Riley, Holly Bobisuth, and more. And here's our review of the show.Through March 10 -
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Seeing Beyond What Is Real
New works by Lawrence Jolly, Daniel Davis, and Iain Neberman, who are "pushing the envelopes of realism to explore and connect the worlds of observable reality with the deeper realities of the imagination."Through Feb. 28 -
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SouthPop: 40 Years of Esther's Follies
Four decades of the funniest topical sketches in the whole blamed city? That's exactly what Shannon Sedwick and Michael Shelton and their talented crowd of friends have brought to Esther's Follies, and now the history of those Follies – posters, prints, original artworks, doc-u-men-ta-tion of all kinds – are on display in this bastion of local goodness.Through Feb. 28 -
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Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
This is the workshop Hannah Kenah led for Rude Mechs while they were creating their Field Guide. Together, you'll write, you’ll share – and there'll be a mic and a stool. Sign up now for this one-day class that's low-pressure, high-fun, and makes the last Sunday in September worth waking up for.Workshop date: Sun., Sept. 30, 3pm. $20. -
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The Blanton: Form into Spirit
Here's a show exploring the conceptual origins of Ellsworth Kelly's last great work, the 2,715-square-foot freestanding building called Austin – a monumental structure with colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture, and 14 black-and-white stone panels in marble and granite – the opening of which coincides with this Carter E. Foster-curated exhibition.Through April 29 -
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Top Comedy Spot on Airport
Yes, there's Sugar Water Purple on Wednesday nights. And this Thursday features Friends For Now, a daring supergroup of improv, and then the sketch shenanigans of Pendulum. Friday brings Movie Riot and the laugh-inducing ladies of Loverboy and that Live at ColdTowne stand-up showcase hosted by Carina Magyar. Then there's Saturday, with the Dave Buckman-directed Roast of St. Nick and the love-stinks larking of Missed Connections ATX, followed by a gathering of that mysterio-hilarious Midnight Society. And Sunday's got a Stool Pigeon spieling up the laughs for you, and – see website for more. -
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Umlauf Insights: Becoming Michelangelo
UT professor (of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art) Louis Waldeman's discussion complements the current "Flight & Fall: Charles Umlauf's Dualities" exhibition by focusing on the sculptor's most significant artistic influence.Wed., Feb. 21, 7pm. Free. -
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Umlauf Museum: Flight and Fall
The popular venue offers a rich journey through classic archetypes as interpreted through Charles Umlauf’s sculptures and drawings.Through March 12 -
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Waterbed with Mac Blake
Blake's Waterbed celebrates its third anniversary tonight, featuring a lineup that's nigh unto dazzling with comedic brilliance: Matt Bearden, Devon Walker, Amber Bixby, Vanilla Presley, Aaron Brooks, Taylor Dowdy, and more. Bonus: new animation from Harrison Hammonds.Wed., Feb. 21, 8pm. $8. -
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Women & Their Work: No Trace of Now Will Remain
Inspired by the writings of Rimbaud and Victorian mourning attire, Gail Chovan "gives exaggerated form to the long deceased by adorning apparitions in hyper-stylized garments and accessories from the past, using fragments and fabrication to enshroud memories, give form to absence, and celebrate remnants as potent vehicles for resuscitation." We excitedly await the opening of this new show of work from the queen of Blackmail.Through March 1 -
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Your Playable City: Shadowing
Here's a fun new Downtown installation, created by Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier, in which streetlights play back the shadows of those who pass beneath them. No, for real. As a citizen walks under the lights, "the shadow of a previous visitor will walk, hop, or dance beside them, and then their own movements will be captured and displayed to the next passerby." And here's a map of locations.Through March 18
