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Creek Show
It's like a trip of lights that are fantastic Downtown, as the fifth annual Creek Show presents nine nights of literally illuminating, site-specific art installations along Waller Creek, just right for exploring and gawking at in civic pride and wonder. It's free, too – although you could attend the preview party on Thursday for first-look braggin' rights and music and, well, see website for details.Through Nov. 17. Nightly, 6-10pm. Free.Waller Creek, between Ninth & 11th
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Art for the People: The Pink Parachute Project
Teodora Pogonat's provocative series of photography depicts women overcoming struggles, hardships, and setbacks through the use of a 30-pound pink military-grade parachute.Through Jan. 26 -
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Art on 5th: Leroy's Place
This here's a show featuring all new work from: NYC's Serene Bacigalupi, Jacques Duffourc, and Whitney Raynor, presenting a spectacle of installations and sculptures of creeptastic creatures that literally escape the frames to take over the gallery space.Through Nov. 25 -
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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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Butridge Gallery: Infinite Worlds
The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists presents a show by professional artists working on a variety of projects from sculpture to book covers to creator-owned projects.Through Dec. 1 -
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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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Davis Gallery: Earth, Land, Property
This five-person exhibit features work by Nicholas Baxter, Julie Davis, David Leonard, Garrett Middaugh, and Jason Webb. "This show intends to question our place among nature and how we've chosen to use our land." Right on – an important consideration, even if you're not part of the Dark Mountain movement, even if you don't have three oxgangs of good earth when the haeric star appears. Also, tbh, we're partial to anything painted by that D. Leonard.Through Dec. 1 -
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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: Erin Shirreff
Here's a new show of the New York-based artist's sculpture and photography, a body of work that "reflects an increasingly complicated world that requires a nuanced understanding of the potential of hybridity and pluralism." And this is our reviewer's reaction to the show.Through Jan. 12 -
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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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OLA Gallery: There and Back
This is a solo show by Leslie Wilkes, featuring psychedelic paintings that experiment with color and momentum.Through Jan. 31201 E. Fifth #104 -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Unconquered
Artwork by Guy Burchak and Chris Celusniak. Burchak's got those painterly skills and works them well on an array of subjects; Celusniak's baroque illustrations are worth losing your eyeballs in for a while.Through Dec. 5 -
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Russell Collection: Duet
This is an "extraordinary" showcase of abstract works by Brad Ellis and Michael Kessler. Actually, we agree: It's pretty extraordinary, all right.Through Nov. 30 -
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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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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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Visual Arts Center: It Sounds Like Cher
This is a group exhibition of new works – painting, sculpture, prints, photographs, and video – by UT's first-year Studio Art MFA candidates.Through Nov. 16 -
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VSA Texas: Holiday Art Show
Gifts and artwork from unique Texas artists – including cards, jewelry, prints, clothing, books, clayworks, and more.Through Dec. 22. Mon.-Sat., 10am-4pm -
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Wally Workman Gallery: 20 Landscapes
Nola Parker, a self-taught artist from Vermont, paints "those places where we have made ourselves known amid the wilderness." Well, yes – but, also? She does it so well, rendering such color-saturated beauty, that it almost makes you want to cry.Through Nov. 24
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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
