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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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Amadeus
Directed by Liz Fisher, starring Diego Arroyo Aceves as Mozart and Kareem Badr(!) as Antonio Salieri, this Tony Award-winning play (as scripted by the brilliant Peter Shaffer) features musical interludes with Mozart's beloved compositions. Listen: For one performance only, the music will be performed live by 40 members of the Central Texas Philharmonic; in the remaining performances, audiences will be treated to a "Mozart remix" by local composer Michael Morét. Because, as we've noticed, the Penfold Theatre Company likes to do things 1) right and 2) big.Through April 9. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 5pm. $5-31. -
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Austin Classical Guitar: Yamandu Costa + Richard Scofano
In which the Brazilian seven-string guitarist Yamandu Costa returns to Austin with special guest Richard Scofano on the bandoneón.Sat., April 9, 4:30 & 8pm. $40-75.The Rosette, 3908 Avenue B #116 -
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Austin Symphony: Slavic Splendor
This ASO concert for April brings us an impressive trio of repertoire by three great composers, and the return of crowd-favorite, pianist Olga Kern.Sat., April 9, 8pm. $19 and up. -
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ICOSA: Silent Language
"My work for the past thirty-five years," says the artist Sono Osato, "has been inspired by the confluence of geological and anthropological history, the connection between terrain and symbolic thought." Now her Silent Language #13 is on display in the Window Dressing series at ICOSA. "It's a good point of entry for anyone who is unfamiliar with my work," says Osato – and it's viewable 24/7 within the Canopy courtyard.Through April 11 -
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Inversion: Eternal Graffiti
Award-winning Filipino soprano Katrina Saporsantos and pianist Benjie Dia perform a concert of new works by local composers at Inversion’s first ever vocal recital.Sat., April 9, 7:30pm. $25 (free, 18 and younger). -
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L. Shankar Concert
Shankar is a master violinist, vocalist, and composer known for his soulful performances of Indian classical music, both Hindustani and Carnatic. In this concert he will be accompanied by Abhijit Banerjee on tabla and Rohan Krishnamurthy on mridangam.Sat., April 9, 6:30pm. $15-25. -
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Lifted
"In a dystopian near-future, birds have returned from their recent extinction to carry a teenage boy off into the sky, leaving his father, girlfriend and twin brother searching for answers." This Charlie Thurston play is directed by Elizabeth V. Newman and features James Lindsley, Madison Palomo, and J. Kevin Smith for Filigree Theatre.Through April 17. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $32.906 Koerner -
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Pivot
UT's Dance Repertory Theatre returns with a series of new choreographic works that speak to our collective resilience, adaptability, and lived experience, featuring work by renowned guest artists, faculty, and student choreographers.April 7-10. Thu.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $15-26. -
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Selfie! The Musical
This new musical by Rembert Block is equally whimsical and profound as its iconic characters – Ugly Selfie Girl, Dude Face, Chasing Sunsets – grapple with identity, image, and narcissism in our hyped-up times. Directed by Bonnie Cullum for the Vortex and Ethos, the show features live music by Brooklyn-based band Rembert and the Basic Goodness.Through April 17. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 6pm. $15-35. -
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The Catastrophist
This new Lauren Gunderson play is intelligent, warm, and witty af in its behind-the-headlines relevance. Listen: Virologist Nathan Wolfe, named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World for his work tracking viral pandemics, has hunted viruses from the jungles of Cameroon to the basement of the CDC. Hear his story as he tracks the threats that come from without and within. Directed by Don Toner and starring Ben Wolfe for Austin Playhouse.Through April 9. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $27 and up. -
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The Plastic Bag Store
Texas Performing Arts presents this local installation – at the Blue Genie space on Airport, no less – of Robin Frohardt's brilliant and immersive tribute to the vulgar overdoity of plastic waste that humans are subjecting themselves and the rest of our planet to. Listen: "Visit a grocery store where the shelves are stocked with thousands of original, hand-sculpted items — produce and meat, dry goods and toiletries, cakes and sushi rolls — all made from discarded, single-use plastics in an endless cacophony of packaging. When you visit, the store transforms into a cinema for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic, sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations." Sensationally graphic yet more than just spectacle, this thing's got philosophical teeth as sharp as the fangs we're sinking deep into our own carotid. (Note: Some seatings will be free, via Fusebox Festival.)Through April 17. Sat., 11am, 1pm, 6pm, 8pm; Sun., 11am, 1pm, 4pm; Wed.-Fri., 4pm, 6pm, 8pm. $15-25.
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Art & Fun Junk Eruption
Take a trip to this curbside buffet of fun junk, a "convenient gift shop for everyone in the universe," where you can create your own prices.Sat., April 9, 9am-5pmCollection Rert, 2608-B Rogers -
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Atelier Dojo: Remote Studios
The local powerhouse of figurative painting, the art school that's the smart school for artists of all kinds, they've got a painting-along-at-home series going to help you keep your skills honed in these socially restrictive times, featuring live costumed models posing on camera and a thriving community of creatives rendering that lovely human biotecture from their separate studios. "Join us for a three-hour costumed-model drawing session. Use any supplies you wish, listen to music, share your work, chat with others. It’s a great way to stay connected with your art community!"Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30pm; Fridays, 6:30-9:30pm; Saturdays, 9:30-12:30pm. $5. -
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Auditions: Running Bear
Hyde Park Theatre is holding auditions for a role in Running Bear, a new play written by Raul Garza and directed by Rosalind Faires, to be staged in June and July. They're seeking seeking actors for the role of Emily, a 17-year-old dreamer and risk-taker, who should be of Afro-Latin, Latinx, or Black heritage; performances will be compensated. Auditions will be a reading from the script; sides will be sent in advance. Email the director for appointment.Audition date: Mon., April 11 -
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Big Medium: A Cloud Floats In / A Ship Passes By
Says the artist W. Tucker: "This show continues a through-line in my work – a conscious effort to pay attention to how I go through life, how I see the world around me, and what is happening in that world. This show represents this effort to see."Through April 9. Thu.-Sat., noon-6pm -
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Blanton Museum of Art: MemWars
Many artists work in multiple mediums, but for Lubbock-raised Terry Allen, music, performance, writing, and visual artwork are truly all part of the same practice. As a visual artist, he often creates immersive sculptural installations with an aspect of performance, incorporated through projections and video. For this ninth installment in the Blanton’s Contemporary Project series, Allen reveals a three-channel video installation and a related group of drawings.Through July 10 -
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Carver Museum: Peace to the Queen
The photographer, humanitarian, and educator Jamel Shabazz presents a career retrospective spanning four decades of work, featuring candid portraits of women of color – as curated by Ja’nell Ajani. "At a moment when Black and Brown women are more visibly leading the charge around movements for racial and economic justice, this exhibition has materialized and aligned at a critical moment in American history and Shabazz’s career."Through Sept. 17 -
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Cloud Tree Gallery: Dreams Carry Water
Recent figurative paintings by Lee Barber bring a flood of rhythmic shapes and harmonious colors at once narratively intriguing and soothing, turning the walls of this Eastside powerhouse of art into a multipartite work of oblique storytelling.Through April 10 -
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Co-Lab Projects: Volumes
This is a project by multidisciplinary artist Ezra Masch: an audio-visual instrument that uses a drum set to activate a site-specific grid of lights. In this case, the specific site is the interior of a room all around you. It's a stunning, near-synesthetic evocation of percussion, immersing you in staggered rhythms of light and sound as drummers explore the relationship between temporal space and physical space. And who are those drummers? Adam Jackson, Chris Cogburn, Alton Jenkins, Julia Hungerford, Thor Harris, Lesley Mok, Brannen Temple, Line Upon Line, Sean Ripple, Milo Tamez, and Greg Fox are those drummers. Note: Free opening reception features drumming by Jackson, Cogburn, and Jenkins; other drummers supercharge the weekly performances. See website for details.Weekly performances through April 23 -
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ColdTowne Theater
ColdTowne's new brick-and-mortar place is totally open, and who knows what they'll shake this city with next? But one truth remains: ColdTowne is a designated den of gold, baby, sweet comedy gold. -
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Contemporary Dance Master Class with Company Member of The Lion King
Editorial space allowing, we like to remind you of the diversity of classes that Ballet Austin offers, of course – they're listed in your Chronicle online if not in print. But we're shouting out this one in particular, and in advance, because Lion King. Suggestion, dancing citizen: Let that touring show's own Eric Bean teach you how to make the moves that matter in these modern times.Sat., April 23, 10:30am. $45. -
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Davis Gallery: In the Wake of the Exodus
A new show of major works that legendary sculptor Steve Brudniak has completed over the past decade or so? Eerily gorgeous pieces of Industrial Age machinery and furniture and objects that are like something out of a Guillermo Del Toro fever dream, creations that "aim to share glimpses of experiences we aren't aware of through ordinary channels – into realms influenced by science, dreams, meditation, hypnosis, therapy, psychedelics, music, the subconscious, and spirituality," as the gallery says? Good thing this exhibition is up during SXSW. Because, when you want to impress any in-from-out-of-town friends with the level of talent in Austin, Brudniak's stuff is at least some of what you want them to see. Which also means, we're sure you've inferred, it's what you shouldn't miss, either.Through April 16 -
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Disney’s The Lion King
This is, yes, the highly acclaimed, soul-stirring, kinetically spectacular, elaborately costumed, omg-we're-running-out-of-adjectives stage adaptation of the Academy Award-winning 1994 film from Walt Disney Pictures.Through April 24. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 1 & 6:30pm. $35 and up. -
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Fallout Comedy
This hotbed of local performance is carrying on even more than usual, with an eclectic mix of live, mind-rocking comedy from some of Austin's best, all week long. Hey! The place is our cover story, as reported by Valerie Lopez! And, srsly, who would ever disagree with the sentiment of Monday night's Fuck This Week show? Check the website for details. -
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Flatbed Press: The Love and Money Show
In this new exhibition of monoprints created at Flatbed during the pandemic, Texas-based artist Maricela Sanchez breaks down barriers between art and daily life, using the iconic imagery of a $100 bill and repeating patterns of lips in multilayered monoprints to create her own currency.Through April 9 -
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Gracywoods Neighborhood Art Fair
Featuring 16 vendors with ceramics, printmaking, wood burning, fresh flowers, watercolor prints, naturally dyed fabrics, oil paintings, preservation art, crochet, woodworking, handmade paper, handmade jewelry, and more.Sat., April 9, 11am-3pm11812 Swearingen -
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grayDUCK Gallery: When You Call My Name Quietly
This show by South Korea-born and Texas-based artist Soomin Jung features a series of landscape drawings rendered in gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on paper, simultaneously accurate and surreal.Through May 1 -
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Ivester Contemporary: El Otro Ojo
This is an exhibition of new work by San Antonio-based artist Cruz Ortiz, who uses long-established modes (for instance, portraiture) to institutionalize Tejano culture that has largely been marginalized in art history as well as in American history.Through April 15 -
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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 -
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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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Link & Pin Gallery: Woman As Object
Robyn Jamison’s multimedia installation comes from her lifelong inquiry into the nature of being human. "The context of objectification sets the stage for inhumanity,” says the artist, whose work speaks to “a mythology of woman’s transformation from marginalization to personhood."Through April 30 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Nature Cult (early freeze, late sleet)
This excellent Downtown gallery features an exhibition of resin and extruded paintings by Donald Moffett.Through April 23 -
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Lydia Street Gallery: Elemental Mind
Austin-based artists Jacqueline May and Jana Swec seek connection to something deeper, May using outright symbols, mathematics, and language, while Swec uses landscapes as the symbols themselves. May plays with materials: oil, encaustic, collage, and more recently mosaic; Swec uses acrylic like the master painter she is, creating vistas of provocative significance.Through April 15 -
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MACC: Entropy
Recent works by Venezuelan artist Mery Godigna Collet, revealing the artist’s ability to transform deep research into profoundly moving works of art.Through June 22 -
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Martha's Contemporary: Hokey Pokey + What You See Is What You Get
Here's a two-person exhibition that features painting, installation, videography, and sculpture by Moll Brau and Wes Thompson. It's a deep dive into a pool of loneliness, triumph, and rebirth. It's a forest of mazes where fireflies provide the light. It's a show of creations from a pair of terrific, hardworking local artists and you don't want to miss it. -
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Mexic-Arte Museum: Chicano/a Art, Movimiento y Más en Austen, Tejas,1960s to 1980s
This exhibition serves as a primer on the rich and understudied Chicano art movement in Austin, presenting a variety of mediums, themes, and artists, bringing together revolutionary artwork with abstract, conceptual, and commercial art, to show the breadth of creativity these artists achieved.Through June 19 -
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Northern-Southern: Fitting
Artists Rachael Starbuck, Michael Muelhaupt, and Jesse Cline live in a house in one of north Austin's less noticed neighborhoods. Professionally, Starbuck and Muelhaupt are sculptors, materials experts, and educators; Cline practices and teaches design. Their new work for this show engages with life – serving growth, offering comfort, and inviting play.Closing reception: Sat., April 30, 4-6pm -
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Staged Reading: Miss Lulu Bett
Different Stages presents a reading of the first woman-written play to win the Pulitzer Prize, with this performance of Zona Gale's acclaimed script directed by Norman Blumensaadt and featuring Ian King, Bethany Harbaugh, Lana Dieterich, Anne Hulsman, Vanessa Hoang, Trey Deason, Beau Paul, Catie Hankins, and Dylan Strickland.Sat., April 9, 2pm. $10. -
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Story Circle Network
Nonprofit organization for women, offering monthly reading and writing circles and more, in North, Central, and South Austin. -
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The Black Hair Experience
The Black Hair Experience "fuses the aesthetic of an art exhibit with the engagement of photoworthy activations," all inspired by the beauty, stories, and culture of Black hair. “This is a culturally inclusive experience that provokes real-time connections through the universal symbol of hair,” says co-founder Elizabeth Austin-Davis.Sat.-Sun., 10am-8pm. $30 and up.9600 S. IH-35 Ste. I-500 -
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The Blanton Museum: Invisibilia
This is the first retrospective of Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz's work in the United States. The exhibition includes 40 exemplary works from his most evocative series created between the 1970s and today, wherein the artist has "turned photographic processes inside out to underscore the intrinsic fragility and transient nature of the image," revealing "how the act of opening the aperture to light instantaneously transforms the present into the past and life into memory."Through June 5 -
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The Blanton: Fantastically French! Design and Architecture In 16th- to 18-Century Prints
Drawing primarily from the Blanton’s extensive holdings of French prints, this exhibition invites you to look closely at exquisite details, marvel at fantastic forms, and take delight in ornate embellishments that celebrate the creativity of imagination across three centuries.Through Aug. 14 -
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The Contemporary Austin: The Whisperers
Tarek Atoui is a Paris-based artist and composer whose work explores the medium of sound through a highly collaborative process that generates networks of community involvement. The dynamic installations on view in this exhibition are both sound environments and spaces for activation through occasional live performances.Through Aug. 14 -
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The Rocky Horror Show
Here's ZACH Theatre's spin on the Richard O'Brien cult classic, a full, spectacular production complete with party-packs and audience participation, directed by Dave Steakley.Through May 1. Tue.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat.-Sun., 2:30 & 7:30pm. $25 and up. -
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West Chelsea Contemporary: Duel Diagnosis
This immersive exhibition features the artistic duo Dave Navarro and PADHiA – with special guest Al Diaz.Through April 17 -
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Women & Their Work: Delimitations
Through the use of Morse code, semaphore, and the flag form Alexandra Robinson appropriates symbols of American exceptionalism, which are informed by her upbringing and familiarity with military family life, and American ideals. The work in this exhibition is steeped in ideas of identity and signifiers that question place and how one exists in that place.Through June 2 -
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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.Call for appointment
