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Art on 5th: Dave Lowell
This native Austinite specializes in graphics that are deconstructed into patterns of light and shadow and then sprayed through layers of intricately hand-cut stencils onto canvas or found objects. Stop in at Art on 5th and see what he's worked up now.Through Nov. 9. Free, but RSVP. -
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Atelier 1205: Uncanny Nocturnes
In which 11-year-old artist Beck Seitsinger debuts his art in a gallery setting, joined by grown-up Austin artists B. Shawn Cox, Richard Ashby, and Scott Rolfe, all rendering a colorful exploration of the night.Through Nov. 11 -
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Blanton Museum: Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
This new exhibition, organized by the Vitra Design Museum and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, presents the work of more than 120 artists and designers, displaying sculpture, prints, fashion, furniture, film, photography, apps, maps, digital comics, and more to show how African design generates innovative design approaches and solutions with worldwide relevance.Through Jan. 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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Harry Ransom Center: Archaeology and Romance
Ed Ruscha, anyone? We'll bet yes – we're big fans ourselves – and now here's a diverse selection of the celebrated American artist’s books, photographs, drawings, and pprints. With archival production materials, preliminary sketches, and studio notebooks; with more than 150 objects providing visitors an unprecedented look into Ruscha's creative process. And the Chronicle's Melany Jean tells more about this show right here.Through Jan. 6 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Gumbo of Gravel
Here's an exhibition of lithographs and sculpture by Ed Ruscha. "Paradox and absurdity have just always been really delicious to me," says the artist. "I've always been dead serious about being nonsensical."Through Nov. 3 -
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Mexic-Arte Museum: Viva la Vida
This exhibition presents Mexic-Arte’s 35-year quest to educate the public about the significance of Dia de los Muertos, offering displays of art, ofrendas, and archival materials as a historical survey and a testament to the holiday’s unique character in the region.Through Nov. 25 -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Color Me Happy
Featuring the three-dimensional work of Cindy Debold and the photography of Roger McBee.Through Oct. 31 -
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Russell Collection Fine Art: Yang & Yun
Three artists with Eastern roots blend ancient techniques with Western influences "to reveal a highly curated collection of art that goes deeper than the canvas." In Joeng and Choon Yun’s case, the canvas is bark from South Korean Dak trees, put through a 2,000-year-old process of boiling, beating, cleaning, and drying. Rimi Yang’s artistic style also bridges the cultural divide with Japanese block print and 19th-century portraiture.Through Oct. 31 -
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Stephen F. Clark Gallery: Rick Williams
This group show celebrates the gallery's 25 years of showing the best of regional photography (and Lance Letscher's collages), and features a tribute to the career of Rick Williams.Through Dec. 1 -
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Taking it to the Streets: A Visual History of Protest and Demonstration in Austin
The Austin History Center's latest exhibit spotlights local efforts to create social change over the decades, including the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation movements. Residents are invited to upload personal photos of recent marches and rallies for inclusion.Through Oct. 28. Free. -
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The Contemporary Austin: Other Forms of Life
If someone's going to be presenting other forms of life, how lucky for those forms and for the viewers of those forms, that it's the New York–based artist Huma Bhabha, here offering an unforgettable array of human, alien, god, plant, animal, and machinelike entities, rendered in her unique combination of representation and abstraction, in two dimensions and three, in whatever media works best. Celebrated in professional art circles, welcomed with a mixture of wonder and fear by ordinary citizens with eyes to see, Bhabha's creations provide an infusion of transgenre brilliance and savagery that Austin, in particular, needs right about now.Through Jan. 13 -
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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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The UMLAUF Prize Exhibition: Slippery Clump
Prize juror Sedrick Huckaby has selected French Canadian sculptor Shanie Tomassini as this year's winner, and so the artist receives a full exhibition of her work, featuring oversized sculptures, fountains, and negative-space forms installed throughout the Umlauf’s six-acre site. And what does the Chronicle's Melany Jean have to say about this?Through Nov. 4 -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Shadows
Mia Carameros and Holly Wilson's work incorporates the idea of the shadow both literally and figuratively, through Carameros' botanical creations and Wilson's narrative sculptures.Through Oct. 27 -
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Women & Their Work: Many Mini Murder Scenes
Candace Hicks' new show features a series of rooms constructed in miniature and vignettes created from cut paper, each reconstructing a tableau plucked from crime fiction, offering viewers the experience of playing a detective searching for clues. See our review right here.Through Nov. 8 -
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Wonderwall Studio: Spirit Room
This show displays 29 original paintings and 23 high-quality reproductions (on acrylic and maple and other materials) by Austin artist Caitlin G. McCollom.Through Nov. 1Wonderwall Studio, 4401 Friedrich, Bldg 2, #200
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The Art of Ice Cream
This? Is one of those ooooh-this'll-look-great-on-Instagram pop-ups that all the like-hungry kids are flocking to, cameras at the ready, surfaces polished for posing. The venue's packed with a colorful array of ice-cream-themed environments, obvs, and so they'll offer you free samples of frozen confections, too. Note: See David Brendan Hall's photo gallery of the place right here.Through Dec. 30. Wed.-Mon., 11am-8pm. $15-25.3208 S. Congress
