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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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Chris Cubas
Cubas is to comedy what the corpus callosum is to communication between the divided hemispheres of your cerebral cortex: necessary. Necessary if you want to laugh, especially, in the middle of a week in the middle of a life in a world that's increasingly, it sometimes seems, a carnival of treachery and stale Dorito crumbs. Y'know? Yeah, you know. Get your tickets now.Wed., Jan. 31, 8pm. $12-17. -
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FronteraFest 2018: The Short Fringe
What's on the schedule this final week? Brilliant monologues? Comedy improv? Cabaret singers? Avant-garde dance? Bizarre performance art? Multimedia? The 25th annual FronteraFest's "Best of the Fest" gathers the diverse goodness of this year's crop and forms it into the tastiest schedule of short theatre 2018 is likely to see. Check the website for details!Through Feb. 17. Tue.-Sat., 8pm. $18. -
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Stefan Merrill Block: Oliver Loving
There's a family in crisis, a town torn apart – and the boy who holds the secret has been in a coma for ten years. Discover the story in the acclaimed author's newest novel tonight.Wed., Jan. 31, 7pm
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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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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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Austin Central Library: Portraits of the People Who Shape Our City
That magnificent new library Downtown hosts this portion of FotoATX, displaying George Brainard's photos of musicians, artists, journalists, and other icons that make Austin unique.Through Feb. 18 -
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Big Medium: For When the Leaves Grow Cold, but I Still Require Your Shoulder
This suite of paintings by Ricardo Vicente Ruiz is rooted in the history and folklore of harvesting seasons in the Southwest. Curated by Jeffrey Dell, it's the gallery's first exhibition of 2018.Through Feb. 17 -
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Billy Reid Austin: Porcelain Lounge
Here's a selection of new work from Keith Kreeger Studios, including unique porcelain pieces that were hand-thrown exclusively for this pop-up shop.Through Jan. 311122 W. Sixth -
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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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grayDUCK Gallery: Café Avatar
"As humanity enters a new graphic skin, how will we remember our physical selves – or are we becoming computational mochas? Where do our avatars hang out when not in use?" Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi's new show explores these questions with a playful collection of images and objects, both figurative and abstract.Through Feb. 18 -
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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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La Peña: Latino Artists in Printmaking
This part of PrintAustin features prints made by artists from Texas, Mexico, Peru, and Chile, including woodcuts, linocuts, serigraphs, printing on ceramics, fabrics, and more.Through Feb. 8 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: The Last Tree on the Planet
Jason Middlebrook’s new sculptures are black, powder-coated steel, isolating the bold designs he's painted on slabs of wood for the last ten years and making them into three-dimensional line drawings. Also, here's a big bonus: "Haaston Paradise," the latest ceramic and fiber works from those irrepressible Haas Brothers.Through Feb. 3 -
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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: Photography in Imagery
Here's another part of FotoATX, the festival highlighting local photographers.Through Jan. 31 -
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RecSpec Gallery: Last Time
This fierce gallery of art and design in the midst of Flatbed presents a show of new mixed-media and print works by Austin-based Eva Claycomb, offering "a quick look at slow time."Through Feb. 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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Slugfest: Misremembrance
Whether making intaglio plates with construction supplies or using prints as building materials in sculptural forms, the works of Silas Breaux are inspired by his observation of the relationship between natural and built environments. This part of PrintAustin is a perfect show for Slugfest, we reckon, the venue itself a lovely relationship between natural and built environment. Bonus: Cats, live ones, in the gallery.Through Feb. 17 -
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Somatic Flow Contemporary Dance Class
This is an all-levels movement class in Somatic Movement Education/Bartenieff floor work, with 45 minutes of movement integration exercises and 30 minutes of a movement phrase.Through April 25. Wednesdays, 6:45pm. $20. -
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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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Susanna Dickinson Museum: Historic Downtown
This segment of the FotoATX initiative features historical photographic images of Austin’s famous landmarks.Through Feb. 18411 E. FIfth -
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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 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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Visual Arts Center: Shove
In which Rachael Henson and Emily Lee, artists from the exhibition "Almost Doesn't Count," knead a giant ball of dough, using their entire bodies to complete the task. Helluva interesting spectacle – sort of pantheistic, you might say – takes about an hour.Wed., Jan. 31, 5pm. Free. -
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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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Yard Dog: Small, Smaller, Smallest
In which Austin artist Deborah Mersky is joined by her Seattle compadres Julie Paschkis and Joe Max Emminger for a show of small paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture.Through Feb. 18
