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Hip Haven's Moving Sale plus Estate Sale
Austin decor maker Hip Haven will be downsizing and moving to a new location. They'll have loads of great Hip Haven merchandise discounted from 15-50% off, plus 2000 square feet of vintage and antique items from multiple estates. Cash, card, or Venmo accepted. (Doors open promptly at 11--no earlybirds!)Sat. Apr. 27, 11am-5pmHip Haven Inc. -
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Laundry & Bourbon with Lonestar
Laundry and Bourbon with Lonestar, two companion one act plays set in backyards of a small Texas town. Three ladies come together to talk about their life's ups and downs. Lonestar follows the life of three small town boys and the events that have shaped them. Both shows give us highs & lows with humor spread around, for good measure.Apr. 19-May 5Navasota Theatre Alliance
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Mean Girls
You've seen the movie, right? It's funny because it's true, it's true because it's vicious. Now Broadway in Austin invites you to witness the harrowing social hierarchies of young women in this hit musical version from an award-winning creative team – including scripter Tina Fey, composer Jeff Richmond, lyricist Nell Benjamin, and director Casey Nicholaw.Aug. 2-7. Tue.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 1 & 7pm. $55-125. -
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Summer Stock Austin: Alice's Wonderland
This is a regional premiere co-written and directed by J. Quinton Johnson (of Broadway’s Hamilton), revealing the story of a brilliant, passionate teen coder who dreams of changing the world with her new video game. Featuring an original score inspired by hip-hop, pop, gospel, and contemporary musical theater.Through Aug. 8. $15-35.
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Art for the People: Abundance
This show is called "Abundance" because that's what it represents: an abundance of bright new works from a plethora of local artists.Through Aug. 26 -
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Art4Water: Sacred Springs Kites
Art4Water’s inaugural program (now on view at Downtown's gorgeous library) is a collaboration between the Watershed Association, Terry Zee Lee, and more than 30 national artists in the creation of dozens and dozens of water-inspired art kites.Through Nov. 30. Free. -
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Artworks Gallery: In the Flesh
The depiction of the human body in its purest form is challenging to capture in most media, but that's what Austin artist Arye Shapiro has been driven to do for the past 20 years – most recently focusing on painting the human figure in oil.Through Aug. 13 -
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Banned Camp
Austin Public Library and BookPeople present a series of free events for citizens to "engage with books that have been banned or challenged, and be part of the conversation around the freedom to read."Through Aug. 28 -
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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: Mi Voz Más Clara
René Alvarado's had 25 years as a full-time working artist, and by this point the figurative surrealism of the painter from San Angelo is breathtaking in its depth and emotion. Cloud Tree's been a full-time venue for six years now, and by this point we're getting used to checking out whatever's on the walls, maybe reeling a bit, and going "Wow … just wow, man."Through Aug. 6 -
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Ivester Contemporary: Dream Job
This is a group show displaying sketches, maquettes, and digital renderings of the projects and ideas that the participating artists would pursue if money, time, knowledge, and space weren't in the way: twelve-foot-tall bronze and stained-glass outdoor sculpture, a playground in the shape of giant animal bust, and skyscrapers wrapped in custom vinyl designs. See the creatively imagined in proposal form; see parts of this world as they could be. Bonus: Accompanying show "Review" features six video artworks by seven artists: Andie Flores, Michael Anthony García, Ariel René Jackson, Renee Lai, Katy McCarthy, Natalia Rocafuerte, and VLM.Through Aug. 27 -
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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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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Blow-Up
Bing Wright's new pictures are enlargements of uncommonly tight crops from images of children at play on a seashore — an outstretched hand splashing water or carrying a beach bucket, liberal smears of sunscreen, fluorescent plastic hair clips, a foot dragging through burbling waves.Through Sept. 10 -
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MACC: Sendas de Mi Vida
This new exhibit includes paintings from the past two years, vibrant artworks by Blas E. Lopez only now revealed to the public.Through Aug. 27 -
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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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Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition
"This special collection of the artist’s renowned ceiling frescoes from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is reproduced in a format that allows viewers to get face-to-face with the [copies of the] masterpieces." Note: See how the promotional image is of a person taking a photo of the reproduction of the famous artwork? Baudrillard, we reckon, wept. YMMV.Through Aug. 8. Tue.-Sun., 10am-6pm. $20.20 ($14.14 for kids). -
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Neill-Cochran House: The Hope Suite
Mark Smith’s The Hope Suite is a series of forty-four collages inspired by the theme of global unity. Each 24-by-18-inch work on paper consists of a background monoprint or a digital photoprint, overlaid with collage, calligraphy, and mixed media. Note: The originals are part of the permanent collection of the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago; the works on display here are limited-edition prints of those originals.Through Dec. 16. Free. -
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Pet Dick: The Found Tapes
Wait, is this even theatre? Should it be listed somewhere else? The facts are: It's a professional audio performance accessed through the internet; it's dramatically funny (or funnily dramatic); it's from theatre powerhouse Jarrott Productions. Especially because of that last thing, here is where we're pimping this Carlo Lorenzo Garcia-scripted work about how "in 1969, in rural Illinois, private investigator Labinowicz documented on micro-cassette tapes his investigations into a series of unexplained pet deaths over the course of 20 years."Available through Aug. 31. $15-18. -
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Richard Rutner: Global Inspirations
Here's an exhibition of work by native New Yorker and Austin-based artist Richard Rutner, capturing the natural and cultural influences he's encountered in his global travels.Through Sept. 18 -
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Summer Stock Austin: In the Heights
Summer Stock Austin presents Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about family, community, and life in a vibrant neighborhood in New York City's Washington Heights.Through Aug. 8. $20-50. -
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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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Women & Their Work: One Bad Monkey
Through soft sculptures and draping foam relief tapestries, Steef Crombach examines the secret life of local icons like the Wheatsville Raptor and the Big Star Bingo Gorilla and more, exploring each character’s evolution as its identity morphs over time and place.Through Aug. 4
