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    ART Ahead: Mindful Motions

    The creative movers and shakers of Almost Real Things celebrate the artists from their first mentorship program with this group exhibition. Featuring new work by Cryptic Enigma, Hailey Gearo, Felipe Gomez, Brittnee Lavender, Rhea Pirani, and Ben Stallman.
    Through July 15. Donations accepted.  
    820 Shelby #103
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    Big Medium: The Lightning Can't Be Harnessed

    Xavier Schipani is an Austin-based transgender artist, who has focused his practice on creating large painting installations that explore the boundaries of gender, body politics, sexuality and queer identity. His unique voice and personal connection to the themes of his work create intimate experiences in combination with a larger than life scale to establish a contrast between the work and the viewer. He continues to investigate fear and anger, masculinity as performance, and the ambiguity of what makes a man.
    Through July 30. Thu.-Sat., noon-6pm
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    Butridge Gallery: Creature Comforts

    This excellent new show features ceramic work by Marianne Levy, paintings by Nora McMillen Burke, and sculpture by Jon Nelson. The art on display here will definitely, we reckon, provide much delight and comfort to your own inner creature.
    Through July 23
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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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    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: Soul Focus

    This dazzling new exhibition of works by Jacob Guzman represents "a journey through his mind and the avenues of experiences that have led him to be who he is today." Reckon if your journey leads you here, citizen, your eyes are gonna thank you very much.
    Through July 17. Mon.-Fri., noon-6pm; Sat.-Sun., noon-5pm
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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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    Elisabet Ney Museum: Secret Place

    The Ney Museum reveals a provocative new exhibition by multimedia artist Rehab El Sadek.
    Through July 31. Free.  
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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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    Hyde Park Bar & Grill: Eve Larson

    Painter Eve Larson draws upon her dance background for subject matter.
    Through July 29
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    ICOSA: Spatial Harmony

    Here's a group exhibition featuring current members of the ICOSA collective. As that includes the likes of Leon Alesi, Darcie Book, Shawn Camp, Veronica Ceci, B. Shawn Cox, Jonas Criscoe, Erin Cunningham, Mai Gutierrez, Sarah Hirneisen, Madeline Irvine, Amanda Linn McInerney, John Mulvany, Vy Ngo, and even more; and as those are the artists whose works are on display here, we're highly recommending a visit to this Canopy-based wonderground.
    Through Aug. 6. Free.
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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: 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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    Northern-Southern: &

    What's that protean artist Stella Alesi been up to for the past year or so? What new areas of graphic exploration has she charted in ways that compel delighted scrutiny? The answer's in this new show at Northern-Southern, where the painter displays her latest creations alongside that of her friends Momo, Michelle Marchessault, Evan Horn, and Michael Hall – all abstractionists, all with work that's rigorously free. Bonus: There's a zine release reception with the artists on Thu., July 21, 4-6pm.
    Through July 24. Thu.-Sun., 2-6pm
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    Really Small Museum: The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

    And here the Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata, one of our favorite entities in the entire city, shares a traveling exhibit within the tiny walls of this neighborhood outdoor treasure. Recommendation: Just walk on up for a happy eyeful.
    Through July 31. Free.
    1311 Harvey
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    RSM: The Tee Hee Bee Quilt Show

    Ay-yi-yi, they're making hot even hotter with the Really Small Museum’s July installation. There will be a weekly rotation of sample quilts from the Tee Hee Bee on display at both RSM locations, featuring creations by Sara Newsom, Claudia Porter, Mary Ann Ricky, Carol Hastings, Danielle Mariani, and Sandra McCallum.
    Through July 31
    3509 Banton
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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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    Wally Workman Gallery: Inked

    Skin? Yes, skin – and illustrations. In this new solo show by Germany-born artist Anne Siems – the fifth for her at this excellent gallery – the exposed female figures are marked with tattoos of fables, myths, and poems.
    Through July 31
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    Wild Basin: Encounters with Biodiversity

    In this immersive art event that mixes color, conversation, and endangered species, artist Juliet Whitsett invites attendees to become a part of her newest body of work, through a series of activations and interactive experiences.
    Through Aug. 20. $5 and up.  
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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
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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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