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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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    RichesArt Gallery: Anniversary Celebration

    On Friday, RichesArt celebrates their first year of art and activism with a fashion show with a 200-seat capacity and 100-yard catwalk featuring local brands, a NFT drop, multiple interactive art exhibits, a scavenger hunt, the launching of a youth artists scholarship, a mural reveal, live music, and more. On Saturday, you're invited to take to the lake with a giant boat art party. See website for details.
    June 17-18. Fri., 7pm-12mid; Sat., 4:30pm-12mid. $30-70.  
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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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    Camiba Gallery: Auspicious Premonition

    The maestro of labor-intensive, screenprinted, hand-braided, multilayered graphic brilliance – yes, we're talking about that Adreon Henry – returns to the Camiba Gallery with a new show.
    Through July 16
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    Canvas ATX: Regale

    Artist Jieun Beth presents new oil paintings on uniquely shaped canvases in her solo show.
    Through June 25
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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: A Postcard from Austin, Texas

    This here's a retrospective of paintings by that locally legendary multimedia artist Ethan Azarian (of Orange Mothers fame and more), revealing a wondrously odd world of cows, shoes, ladder-back chairs, and cityscapes in one polychrome display of relentless creative industry.
    Through June 18
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    Contracommon Gallery: Hysteria

    This exhibition by Molly Sydnor is a collection of mixed media works that "interweave both the process of discovery and side effects of being a woman or being perceived that way."
    Through June 18. Fri.-Sat., noon-6pm
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    Davis Gallery: Summer Group Show

    This exhibition showcases the depth of work by the Davis Gallery family of artists, featuring 34 Central Texas-based artists – Malou Flato, Fallon Bartos, Lisa Beaman, Steve Brudniak, Jan Heaton, Denise Fulton, Dana Younger, Randall Reid, John Sager, Faustinus Deraet, David Leonard, and more – celebrating both the present and historical feel of our everchanging state.
    Through July 23
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    Flatbed Press: Seeing Out the Other Eye

    As an Austin native with family traces to the city’s founding, artist Heather Parrish explores the historical layers of terrain and urban development, the legacies of racialized division and displacement, associated with Waller Creek. And she does this, stunningly, via printmaking, experimental photography, collage, and installation.
    Through July 26
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    ICOSA: I Believe In Things I Cannot See

    An exhibition that features collaborative work from Tammie Rubin and Darcie Book? The answer is yes, and our recommendation is high for this show in which the artists investigate how to turn their collective space into an object – where awareness of body and movement become essential – with large, sculptural forms of paper creating a spatial dichotomy, providing the opportunity to travel between two distinct realms.
    Through June 25
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    Ivester Contemporary: Full Bleed

    This is a solo exhibition of works on paper by Austin-based artist Brian Daly, featuring carefully measured angles, arcs, and linework filled with seamless gradients of color that cascade down the page, accompanied by neatly scattered marginalia about "his craft, his color choices, and intimate details of his personal life." Bonus: The gallery's project space reveals the new Ipinya installation by Akirash.
    Through July 9
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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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    Link & Pin Gallery: Summer Strut

    Link & Pin presents a summer show featuring some of their favorite Austin artists; each artist (the amazing Leslie Kell among them) will have a work on display in the gallery, with additional pieces available online.
    Through Aug. 28
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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: 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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    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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    Sage Studio: Supergroup

    SAGE Studio presents a music-themed exhibition featuring the work of Rick Fleming, Jackson Sutton, and Jennifer Williams.
    Through July 2
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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 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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    UT Idea Lab: Never Alone

    This is the first public exhibition of the work of Kendrick Mitchell and Christopher Williams, who are serving life sentences at the same maximum-security prison in southeast Texas.
    Through July 1. Tue.-Fri., noon-5pm
    210 W. 24th
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    Wally Workman Gallery: Jen Garrido

    The power of color is Jen Garrido’s central focus for this new body of work, her shapes forming emotive vessels of pigment that communicate an ever-changing internal and external growth.
    Through July 3
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    West Chelsea Contemporary: Do Not Post

    This show features large-scale work from gallery owner Lisa Russell’s private collection and remains exclusive only to invited museum attendees. Featuring pieces from legendary artists including Aboudia, Banksy, Retna, Doze Green, Cleon Peterson, and more.
    Through June 26
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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
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