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    Guzu Gallery: Strange Beasts V

    That poptastic gallery located in the Center of Austin Fandom teams up with Matt Frank to present "Shin Beasts," this latest in their vivid series of creatures beyond the usual fauna of our mundane trappings. With 13 artists (Bob Eggleton among them!) and one fearless tag team challenging the King of the Monsters to a face-off of gargantuan proportions, you know the show's gonna be an eye-sizzling phantasmagoria of fang and fin. Reception:
    Fri., July 28, 7-10pm
    Guzu Gallery
OPENING

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    Art on 5th: Disney Pop

    Here's a collection of new works from the Disney Fine Art Program. With live painting on-site by Tennessee Loveless and Tim Rogerson. RSVP for the reception:
    July 28-29. Fri.-Sat., 7-9pm  
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    Ao5 Gallery

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    Big Medium: Sunbathers

    The Brooklyn-based Ellen Siebers presents a series of paintings inspired by confined spaces. The surfaces she covers are birch panel, the edges beveled in at 45 degrees; the gesso she applies is made from rabbit skin glue, water, and powdered marble, mimicking the surface of plaster.
    Through Aug. 19
    Big Medium

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    Museum of Human Achievement: The Highest Grossing Film of 1994

    The MoHA's flickering in mad delight with a new show of works from KR Pipkin, Lee Webster, Gray Swartzel, Verónica Vega, Joy Poulard Cruz, Shobun Baile, and Alex Lukas – examining "pop-culture fantasies of wealth and decay by isolating a section of time that runs from Sixties gameshows to sci-fi visions of the postapocalypse." Reception:
    Fri., July 28, 7pm-12mid
    Museum of Human Achievement

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    Pump Project: Wait … Lifter

    This is a solo exhibition of new work by improv sculptor and abstract turntablist Ted Carey, whose thoughts are glacial but his actions volcanic. "Entropy is erotic and gravity is a tyrant," says the man, spinning some metaphysical vinyl with three of his 12 fingers. "The honesty of rocks and the anxiety of time guide my creative compass." Closing reception and performance:
    Fri., Aug. 18, 8-10pm
    Pump Project
ONGOING

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    Art for the People Gallery: Three New Exhibits

    Check out "Abstract Absolutely" – 13 artists’ work in different mediums. "I See You" – photography by Karen & Steve Jackson, creating backdrops into surreal worlds. And "Scene Builders" – artists who see a blank space and design the area to tell a story, whether that area is a building's wall, a border's fence, a human's body.
    Through Aug. 14
    Art for the People

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    Art.Science.Gallery.: Far Out

    The gallery's newest exhibition, presented in partnership with the American Astronomical Society and Women in Astronomy (during their annual meetings in Austin, no less) features a miniature, traveling version of the James Webb Space Telescope exhibition currently on display at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center – with artwork inspired by that telescope.
    Through July 29
    Art.Science.Gallery.

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    Blanton Museum: Epic Tales From India

    Now here's one of the world's most comprehensive collections of South Asian paintings outside of India, right there in the gorgeous venue on MLK. See for yourself these "dynamic images originally associated with important literary and religious texts, organized according to thematic narratives."
    Through Oct. 1. $9 (free, Thursdays).
    The Blanton Museum of Art

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    Blanton Museum: Giant

    In their three-channel film installation, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler present a decaying movie set just outside Marfa, left behind after the 1956 filming of Giant.
    Through Oct. 1
    The Blanton Museum of Art

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    Davis Gallery: Radiant

    This annual group show at the Davis focuses on radial compositions, luminescent surfaces, circular shapes, and all things radiant. As David Leonard, Randall Reid, Jan Heaton, Gladys Poorte, and Faustinus Deraet are among the artists represented here, they could've called it "Glorious" and still been right. Recommended.
    Through Aug. 19
    Davis Gallery

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    De Stijl: En Bola

    This new show features Austin collective Los Outsiders' Michael Anthony Garciá, Roberto Jackson Harrington, and Hector Hernandez working with a trio of Texas artists: Lisette Chavez, Jean-Sebastien Boncy, and Mauro Martinez.
    Through Sept. 9
    1006 W. 31st.

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    Flatbed Press: Landscapes: Transformed/Transfigured

    Through installation, sculpture, and printmaking, Sean Caulfield’s work considers the ways our environment is transformed by forces of urban and industrial growth.
    Through July 29
    Flatbed Press

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    Flatbed Press: New Editions

    This annual exhibition at Flatbed celebrates the studio's recent publications (2016-17) and the bright diversity of processes and techniques utilized by the participating artists and Flatbed master printers. Featuring etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, monotypes, and monoprints by Miguel A. Aragón, Francisco Delgado, Annalise Gratovich, Mary McCleary, Peter Neal Nickel, Linda Ridgway, and more.
    Through July 29
    Flatbed Press

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    Link & Pin Gallery: Verstehen and Dreamscapes

    Is this a performance series? Is it a mixed-media exhibition? It's both, actually, as the gallery teams up with En Route Productions to present visual artist Emily Rankin and sound artist Meason Wile's five hour-and-a-half performances of real-time creation of multimedia art in front of a live audience. See website for details.
    Through July 30  
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    Link & Pin

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    Lora Reynolds Gallery: Time

    This is the gallery's first exhibition of sculpture and painting by Catherine Lee, featuring work in bronze, iron, glass, and ceramic. The gathered array displays three-dimensional objects that resemble pottery shards, knife blades, arrow heads, and amphorae; and the accompanying "Quanta" paintings obliquely record the passage of time. Bonus: "Remnants, Relics, and Incidentals," an exhibition of new work by Jessica Halonen, in the adjoining Project Room.
    Through Sept. 9
    Lora Reynolds Gallery

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    MACC: The Last Exhibit for the 20th Century

    This show in the Coronado Gallery at the Mexican American Cultural Center features the paintings, prints, and sketches of Mexic-Arte founder Pio Pulido, rich with big solitary symbols of mystic realism. And, in the Community Gallery, "Home Is Where the Heart Is: Voices From Within," a photo exhibit chronicling the contributions of Mexican American residents of Austin, curated by Gloria Espitia.
    Through Aug. 26
    Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center

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    Mexic-Arte Museum: Capricho

    This is a project by the Borderland Collective's Mark Menjivar that activates the archives of his late grandfather, Joe Font.
    Through Aug. 27
    Mexic-Arte Museum

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    SouthPop: 50 Over 50

    This exhibition accompanies the venue's oral history project from 50 artists over the age of 50 who have played pivotal roles in the evolution of Austin from a sleepy Texas town to the Live Music Capital of the World.
    Through Sept. 30
    South Austin Museum of Popular Culture

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    Stephen Clark Gallery: This Land | An American Portrait

    This exhibition celebrates the release of Jack Spencer's new book of photography from UT Press. The images therein and on the walls: Stunning.
    Through Aug. 5
    Stephen L. Clark Gallery

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    The Contemporary Austin: Garth Weiser and Mark Lewis

    TCA presents the first monographic museum survey of Weiser's stunning abstract paintings. And "Galveston" by the London-based Lewis, who makes non-narrative films about modern urban environments.
    Through Aug. 27
    The Contemporary Austin

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    The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

    This place, ah, it's one of our favorite places in the entire city; and of course they're properly corona-closed. But check 'em out online right now – it's a rich, wonder-filled website – to whet your appetite for when things get back to … uh … are we still calling it "normal," these days?

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    Umlauf Sculpture Garden: Mentoring a Muse

    Check out this first-ever exhibition of works from former UT art student Farrah Fawcett and her mentor, professor and sculptor Charles Umlauf.
    Through Aug. 20
    Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum

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    Wally Workman Gallery: Mary Case

    This is the Workman Gallery's first solo show with the Houston-based artist whose work interprets organic forms with subtlety and spontaneity.
    Through July 29
    Wally Workman Gallery

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    Yard Dog: Southern Folk Art from the Vaults

    Below the Mason-Dixon, below the highbrow radar, yes; but above and beyond the call of mark-making duty, there's a plethora of downhome beauty on display here.
    Through Aug. 29
    Yard Dog

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    Young Latino Artists 22: ¡Ahora!

    Here's the the 22nd installment of the Latinx artist exhibition series at Mexic-Arte Museum, curated by Alana Coates, featuring works by eight emerging artists.
    Through Aug. 27
    Mexic-Arte Museum
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