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Opening Reception of "Tenfold" Exhibition

McLennon Pen Co. Gallery is proud to announce its move to a new, expanded home at 1114 W 5th St in Clarksville. The inaugural exhibition titled Tenfold will debut the art gallery's first official artist roster including artists based in Austin, New York, Los Angeles, and Kansas City.

Thurs. June 5, 6pm-9pm
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Coffee Chat: Michael Anthony García and Bug Davidson

This series from Big Medium features leaders in the creative community sharing their personal and professional experiences to inspire others pursuing careers in art. Michael Anthony García is a multidisciplinary artist & independent curator, and a founding member of Los Outsiders curatorial collective. Bug Davidson is a motion-image artist and film/theater director interested in communicating through visual language intersections of media & representation, social corporeal choreography, akousmata and action, and the enchantment of cinematic gesture.

Thu., March 4, 11am. Free.
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Davis Gallery: As the World Stood Still

This is a retrospective of the creative journey that painter Kevin Greer started alone inside his studio during the lockdown that continued through this past month. You want to see some vivid, multicolored abstractions like strategically shattered shards of somebody's lysergic and fire-marked dreams? Then, says Brenner, you should see this.

Through March 6

Davis Gallery
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Fate Incorporated

This is a three- to six-week theatrical experience told through e-mail in a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure sort of format, brought to you by Austin's own Madison Sheridan and crew. Listen: The participant (that's you, citizen) has just been hired as a "relational fate associate" at a corporation founded by the goddess of fate to aid mortals from all different worlds and universes. Your job is to help answer these mortals' prayers and help them as much as possible. Say what? Say, see the website for details.

Deadline for sign-up: March 14. Free.
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Keeping the Light: Songs of Hope

Chorus Austin and Ryan Heller present a virtual concert featuring new and previously recorded favorites.

Through March 13. Free.
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Northern-Southern: Baton

This is a group show by relay, begun in July of 2020 as a method of socially distancing a community in the height of the pandemic: Artists took turns alone in the space, each adding to the exhibition. Now, as it nears its close, the exhibition resembles a community in which work converses and overlaps. With Adreon Henry, Vy Ngo, Dawn Okoro, Leon Alesi, Matt Steinke, Sev Coursen, Stella Alesi, and more.

Closing reception: Sat., July 24, 3-9pm

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Behind the Scenes: Art of the Hollywood Backdrop

Visit mid-century Hollywood without leaving Austin through an up-close view of these Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio assets. This first-ever public viewing of 12 historic Golden Age of Film backdrops provides a look into the nearly lost art of hand-painted Hollywood scenic art. Bonus: Re-creations of other backdrops in the collection, as painted by UT scenic art students training with Karen Maness. And, look: Robert Faires reports on the show right here.

Extended through April 18. $5-12.

Bass Concert Hall
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ChingonX Fire: Group Exhibit

Inspired by the Mexican American Cultural Center's annual La Mujer celebration – and by the first feminist of the New World, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz – this online group exhibit is curated by April Garcia and features womxn-identifying and nongender-specific artists whose artwork is tied to activism, feminism, cultural. and gender identity storytelling, environmental protection, and socioeconomic parity.

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grayDUCK Gallery: Slow Season

Bucky Miller – artist, writer, recipient of the Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship – has exhibited in solo shows at Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum and more, and his work's also been featured in publications like n+1, Der Greif, The Believer, and Glasstire. He says: "The photographs and other things in 'Slow Season' constitute a love note to friends about the very reasonable joys of slow and sporadic attentiveness. When lost in the fog, it helps to pause. Unhurried, there is room for puppet theater. Do not worry: It will be clear the puppets were an asset once things get moving again."

Through March 28. Gallery hours by appointment

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Laguna Gloria

This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.

Thu.-Fri., 9am-noon; Sat.-Sun., 9am-3pm

Laguna Gloria Amphitheater
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Landmarks: Self-Guided Walking Tour

Use your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program any time you feel like it. BONUS: There's also a free, docent-led tour starting at Marc Quinn's "Spiral of the Galaxy" (1501 Red River) on Sun., Jan. 8, 11am.

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Mexic-Arte Museum: Mexico, the Border, and Beyond

Mexic-Arte Museum presents an exhibition of selections from the Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr. collection, an array of work that is considered one of the most important Latinx art collections in the United States.

Through May 30

Mexic-Arte Museum
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The Blanton: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints

Leo Steinberg's wide-ranging scholarship addresses such canonical artists as Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Paul Rubens, Pablo Picasso, and Jasper Johns. Here the Blanton presents selections from the scholar's vast collection – an impressive array of highlights from the European printmaking tradition.

Through May 9
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The Contemporary Austin: "I'm" and "Bible Eye"

Austin-born and internationally acclaimed, Deborah Roberts critiques notions of beauty, the body, race, and identity in contemporary society through the lens of Black children. (Her first solo museum presentation in Texas, "I'm," is part of The Contemporary Austin's participation in the Feminist Art Coalition – a nationwide initiative of art institutions to generate awareness of feminist thought, experience, and action through exhibitions and events.) Norway's Torbjørn Rødland works with analog technology and readymade spaces to create photographs that render the everyday uncanny. His images blend the cool, seductive aestheticism of commercial and fashion photography with the layered complexity of a conceptual practice, resulting in ambivalent perspectives that both attract and repulse.

Through Aug. 15
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The Speaker Speaks: Act I

This audio-theatre presentation is based on the Public Domain Theatre Company’s stage production of Clay Nichols' The Speaker Speaks: An Evening with Sam Rayburn, as directed by Robi Polgar in 1999. This new interation was adapted by – and stars – David R. Jarrott, with sound design, mixing, and editing by Craig Brock. Note: Act II will be released on March 11, and Act III on March 18; after that, the installments will always be available on the home page of the Jarrott Productions website (or your favorite podcast platform).

Thu., March 11, 7:30pm. Donations accepted: AMPLIFY.
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Wyld Gallery

This is Ray Donley's gallery of art by Native Americans, located in that company of artistic glory called Canopy and resplendent with creations from the original people of our struggling country.

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Wyld Gallery