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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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Cry It Out
Molly Smith Metzler's new play provides an honest look at the absurdities of being home with a baby, the power of female friendship, the dilemma of going back to work, and the effect class has on parenthood in America. Directed by Lily Wolff for Theatre en Bloc, and featuring – wow, what a cast – Lee Eddy, Christin Davis, Jenny Lavery, and Ben Wolfe. And here's what our reviewer thought of the show.Through May 20. All shows 8pm, different nights each week, see website for details. $15-70. -
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ICOSA: These, Our Precious Scars
This collaborative exhibition of sculpture, photography, and installation is created by Erin Cunningham and Alyssa Taylor Wendt. Taking inspiration from the Japanese philosophies behind wabi-sabi and kintsugi, the pair has joined mediums to investigate imperfection, longevity, hope, and revealing seams.Through May 19 -
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Shakespeare in the Park: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Austin Shakespeare transforms the Zilker Hillside Theater into the world of a classic Fifties sitcom to embody this production of the Bard's Falstaff-festooned comedy, featuring a fine cast directed by Ann Ciccolella and Gwendolyn Kelso. Pro tip: Bring you a blanket and pick-a-nick, citizen!Through May 27. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. Free. -
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Diptych II
Maybe never mind whatever else is going on in Austin right now, citizen. Because tonight you can attend this sartorial fantasia from the Hyperreal Film Club and Co-Lab Projects, this event that's transforming the huge, raw warehouse space at the back of Austin School of Film into a high-fashion spectacle. The three-part runway showcase premieres new lines from Austin-based designers Melissa Taylor, Ida Béhjat, and Samantha Fabry. Listen: "DIPTYCH is an inclusive show, welcoming everybody from everywhere to celebrate fashion as a personal, self-expressive art form and its ability to delight, provoke, and inspire." Yeah, this is the stuff you want to see and wear, and tonight's gig is the best way to witness its entrance onto the world's stage – and not just because the joint turns into one big party immediately thereafter. But you know we're gonna like that part, too.Sat., May 5, 8pm. $5-10. -
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New Fiction Confab & Austin Lit Fair
The ninth annual New Fiction Confab features some of America’s most prominent authors leading writing workshops, reading from their latest work, and engaging in conversation: Ramona Ausubel, Rebecca Kauffman, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Thomas Pierce, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Owen Egerton, Jardine Libaire, and Natalia Sylvester. Bonus: A showcase of local literary publications and organizations, including American Short Fiction, AWST Press, Bat City Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cider Spoon Stories, fields magazine, and HOST.Sat., May 5, 2-5pm. Free. -
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Ragnar Kjartansson: S.S. Hangover
All the way from Reykjavik to Austin, Kjartansson's artwork consists of a musical performance (composed by Kjartan Sveinsson, most recently of Sigur Rós) acted by musicians on a historic fishing boat circling the water. Trumpets! French horns! Tubas! Part sculpture, part performance, part musical endurance test, S.S. Hangover is the odd spectacle at Laguna Gloria that our own Kevin Curtin reported on right here.May 5-6. Sat.-Sun., 11am-3pm -
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Sixth Street Gallery: Soul of America
"Some say the America of today is unexpected, surprising, and unforeseen; while others say they saw it coming long ago." In an effort to facilitate conversation on where America is today and where we're headed, Sixth Street Gallery has partnered with Artists 916 to present a show featuring art in a diverse range of styles and mediums, all exploring the theme.Through May 20
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AgavePrint: Furlong
The photographer Raymond Meeks, often inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of image and text, presents a collection of works that play with memory and place and the ways in which a landscape can shape an individual.Through May 6 -
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Amy Miller
This Miller? Portland’s Funniest Comedian in Helium Comedy Club’s annual contest – and Portland’s Funniest 2013 and 2015, according to that Willamette Week alt-weekly up there in the specific Northwest. And she's gonna take the Velv stage to new fiery heights this weekend, is what we're hearing, after a sharp pack of Pat-Dean-curated locals gets it all warmed up for her and you.May 4-5. Fri., 9pm; Sat., 9 & 11pm. $10. -
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An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein
Present Company offers this adults-only theatrical experience exploring the R-rated imagination of the eccentric storyteller, bringing to the stage his provocative short plays, mischievous music, and poetry for naughty children.Through May 21. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. Donations accepted, RSVP required. -
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Art Will Save Us
And here's another of those freewheelin' nights of live art, performances, and music in the gallery-styled warehouse setting of Cherry Cola Dog.Sat., May 5, 7pm-2am. $10. -
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As You Like It
City Theatre presents their staging of Shakespeare's most famous romantic comedy, as directed by Levi Gore.Through May 6. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $10-25. -
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Big Medium: Fisterra Retrospective
2017 was the last year for Jennifer Chenoweth's Fisterra Studio participating in the East Austin Studio Tour, but the annual event – part of EAST since the beginning! – had a deep effect on Austin's sense of community and connectedness. Now here's a show featuring more than 50 artists affiliated with Fisterra over the years collaborating once again. Look: Stella Alesi, Virginia Fleck, Dana Younger, Beth Consetta Rubel, Katie Rose Pipkin, Holly Fisher, Dawn Okoro, Philip Rogers, and Valerie Chaussonnet are among the talented company here.Through May 18 -
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Camiba Art: Alluring View
Rachel Kalisky’s second solo exhibit with the gallery is an array of fused-glass artworks, works that beg to be touched. And the artist says, "Go ahead and touch them!" Well, be gentle.Through May 12 -
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Carver Museum: Punk Noir
Behold this new series of large paintings by Dawn Okoro, exploring the black punk spirit. You already knew black is beautiful; with this exhibition, black may be even more beautiful – and punk AF. And here's what our reviewer thinks of the show.Through July 21 -
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Catherine Lee: The Ney Project
A retrospective of Texas artist Catherine Lee's work in diverse media will be anchored by her monumental sculpture Hebrides #6: Clach An Trushal, on loan from the Contemporary Austin.Through May 6 -
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Comanche Motion: The Art of Eric Tippeconnic
This exhibition is enhanced with artifacts providing historical context for the paintings, rich with the unbroken connection the Comanche people have with their roots. Also, Rodeo: The Exhibition. Boy howdy, it's the history of the Texas rodeo – vibrant, interactive, and fully documented in this fine new show.Through Jan. 2. $9-13. -
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Dimension Gallery: Inevitable Reckoning
It's the second solo exhibition for the Texas-born-and-bred Nick Schnitzer at this excellent gallery, with a new series of work combining craft, science, and storytelling that appeals to our most basic sense of survival. Climate change? Noted, illustrated, made vividly manifest in the construction of this show.Through May 5 -
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Feats Of Clay: Spring Show
This 42nd(!) annual showcase boasts an array of unique sculptural and utilitarian pottery crafted by studio owner Judy Conroy and artists Shirley Fox, Tina Lewis, Marc Jeannin, and Rebeccah Polk.Sat.-Sun., May 5-6, 10am-5pm -
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Flatbed Press: Vasculum
Spencer Fidler’s practice is to collect plants from his property in Las Cruces, N.M., and draw them daily at four times their scale. Read our review right here, then see what such devoted work means for your floratropic eyes, in this new show at Flatbed.Through May 19 -
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Gallery Shoal Creek: The Pink Bow Project
Presenting a large-scale multimedia work by Karen Hawkins, displaying more than fifty nine-foot-tall fabric panels, each covered in 1000 pink hair bows, the bows representing the number of substantiated female child sexual-abuse cases reported annually to Child Protection Services agencies.Through May 12 -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Weave
This new exhibition from Elizabeth Chiles begins with a central question of how to visually express various points of intersection of our lives and the breath, light, and time that holds them. The works on display here include collages and natural pigment paintings made from wild flowers and grasses.Through May 20 -
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Handel's Rinaldo In Concert
This score, Bruno Barbosa tells us, is filled with some of Handel's most beautiful and challenging music.Sat., May 5, 2pm. Donations accepted. -
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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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Hothouse Literary Journal: Release Party
Wait, another literary collection from UT? Well, yes, in fact – this one, from their English Department. Raise a toast to the new purveyors of the belletristic arts!Sat., May 5, 7pm -
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Jerry's Artarama: Veterans/Military Show
That excellent emporium of creative tools and materials hosts an exhibition of art by active and retired members of the military (and their families).Sat., May 5, 5-7pm -
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Joe Machi
You know this grinning guy won the NY Comedy Festival's Funniest Comedian Competition back in 2013, right? You think he's been resting on his laurels since then, you're more of an idiot than, ah, hell, than any Trump supporter, even. Check him out.May 3-5. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 7:30 & 10pm -
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John Shepphird and Ricky Bush
The authors present their newest crime thrillers, Shepphird with the indie-film adventure Bottom Feeders, Bush with his blues-hued Oaxacan Kid.Sat., May 5, 2pm -
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Leona Gallery: Praise From an Undertaker
This show brings together five artists from across the country, united by the dark allegorical nature of their work. From the magical realism of Austinite Win Wallace's drawings to the foreboding heavy-metal terror of Orion Landau's paintings, each of the artists in this show finds their own way of creating worlds of disquieting fantasy and pathos.Reception (with live music by Suckling and Black Mercy): Sat., May 5, 6pm -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Black and White
The sixth show by Tom Molloy in this elegant space is an exhibition of new drawings and found photographs that explore race – the social construct central to much of the injustice and inequality in America. Bonus: Mariah Robertson in the Project Room.Through June 2 -
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Northern-Southern Gallery: Michelle Marchesseault
Here's the first solo show from the NYC-based artist whose systematic abstractions bring steady patterning to a complex spectrum of colors. But, ah, what did our reviewer think of these works?Through May 5 -
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Old Bakery Gallery: In My Mind’s Eye
Beryl Kerwick, Pete Holland, and Vivien Burns are the featured artists this month.Through May 31 -
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Out of Ink: 10-Minute Play Showcase
ScriptWorks presents the 20th annual showcase of 10-minute plays, this time featuring a theme of "Lost and Found" – mementos of long-lost loves, articles of clothing, a painting, and the brain of a deceased president are a few of the lost things to be found – and boasting a lively cast embodying scripts by Robin Anderson, Martha Lynn Coon, Pelita Dasalla, Ava Love Hanna, Max Langert, Sandy Maranto, Briandaniel Oglesby, and Megan Thornton. And, oh: Here's what Robert Faires thought of last year's showcase.Through May 5. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $14-16. -
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Performance Park
Bonnie Cullum and her diverse army of creatives present this immersive theatrical scavenger hunt that encompasses the entire Vortex compound with thematic games, riddles, music, dance, and mystery, featuring Tarot Major Arcana characters among your guides and gurus and puckish performers. Read more about it in this preview.Through May 12. Thu.-Sun., 7:15 (with different entry times until 8:15pm). $15-35. -
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Prizer Arts & Letters: The Elder Child
This is a selection of paintings by legendary musician and queer icon Gary Floyd, lead singer of the Eighties Austin punk band the Dicks.Reception: Fri., May 4, 6-9pm. Performance by Floyd and those Himalayan Mountain Boys: Sat., May 5, 4pm -
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Pump Project: Prima Materia
This "Prima Materia," this exhibition of first stuff, is also also close to the termina praesentationem – the final exhibition – for Pump Project. Yeah, rising rents. Because Austin, right? So visit the storied PP while you still can – and catch sight of, among other things, Steve Brudniak's new work. And all of it? Curated by Erin Cunningham, Alyssa Taylor Wendt, and the ICOSA Collective.Through May 26. Saturdays, noon-5pm -
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REVEL: A Celebration of Live Design
Here's a showcase of work created for the stage by the MFA candidates in Design and Technology in UT's Department of Theatre and Dance – including costume design and technology, lighting, integrated media, and scenic work.April 30-May 6. Mon.-Thu., 9am-6pm. Reception: Sun., 6pm. Free. -
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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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Tapestry: April Fools
Acia Gray and her percussive company get all Vaudevillian with a high-energy show that tweaks current events and offers up a tap-dance spectacle with the live music of Datri Bean and The Butler Bean Band.May 3-6. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $23 and up. -
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The Back Pack: Upstaged
The Back Pack, a silent sketch movement troupe – and one of the best things to happen to live performance in Austin since Rubber Repertory hit the road – continues to push the envelope by including live integrated media in their new show. This time out, the hilarious and inventive quartet is featuring work from a collaboration with Lina Chambers and Paper Boats, and, as ever, exploring the possibilities of "clowning, dance, puppetry, shadow work, animation, foley, and whatever the next thing our hearts desire."Through May 20. Fri.-Sun., 7:30pm. $15.Back Pack Co-Lab, 2400 E. Cesar Chavez #206 -
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The Contemporary Austin: Against a Civic Death
Rodney McMillian's social critique of American histories, injustices, and structures of power explores the changing symbol of the White House and the concept of civic death.Through Aug. 26 -
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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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Trio
This world premiere of Sheila Cowley’s fantastical play in which "a three-way romantic triangle takes shape and the real world merges with the world of make-believe through swords, masks, monsters, and the power of the imagination." Directed by Elizabeth V. Newman for Filigree Theatre.Through May 6. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $30. -
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Visual Arts Center: 2018 Thesis Exhibitions
Presenting "Affordable Dream House," for the Studio MFA; "If This Then That," for the Design MFA, and "Catalyst," for the Senior Design grads.Through May 11 -
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Wally Workman Gallery: America Martin
This is the gallery's fifth solo show with the Los Angeles-based artist, whose inspiration for subject matter is found in her love of form and figure as depicted by the Impressionists and Modernists of the early 20th century.Through May 28 -
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Women & Their Work: Good Luck with the Sun
With the sun as her subject and collaborator, Krista Steinke explores the physical and psychological impact of our greatest energy source, her exhibition incorporating video, personal narrative, and experimental photographic processes. And here's our review of the show.Through June 7 -
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Yard Dog: Off the Record
St. Louis artist Kerry Smith's new series features his gouache and oilstick paintings of iconic record album art.Through May 27 -
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Young Voices of Austin: Give Us Hope
Composers for this inspirational concert range from John Legend to Jim Papoulis.Sat., May 5, 5pm. $10-100.AISD Performing Arts Center, 1500 Barbara Jordan
