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  • Affordable Art Fair Austin

    After a hugely successful first edition, Affordable Art Fair Austin returns May 15-18, 2025 at the Palmer Events Center, showcasing thousands of original contemporary artworks ranging between $100 to $10,000. Welcoming 55 local, national and international exhibitors, the second edition will be unmissable.
    May 15-18, 2025  
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    Palmer Events Center

  • The Juilliard String Quartet with pianist Anna Petrova

    With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946 and hailed by The Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring.
    Sat. May 17, 7:30pm  
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    Riverbend Centre
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  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Victim (1961)

    When Victim came out in 1961, homosexuality was illegal. Director Basil Dearden’s neo-noir thriller was the first British film to name it explicitly – and treat it sympathetically. It centers around a blackmail scheme targeting a closeted barrister (Dirk Bogarde, who was himself closeted), and his pursuit of the blackmailers after their scheme turns deadly. Initially banned in the U.S., it’s now celebrated as a groundbreaking queer film, here video-introduced by expert film programmer Elizabeth Purchell, who’ll shed more light on its history and social impact. – Kat McNevins
    Wed., May 7
    AFS Cinema

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Barry Lyndon (1975)

      In December 2021, X (né Twitter) user dotflan posted a 26-second video that would forever change how internet denizens interpreted period piece Barry Lyndon. By combining the thumping lyricism of 21 Savage’s “a lot” with Ryan O’Neal as perfect imbecile Lyndon failing up social classes before failing right back down to abject poverty, the once-thought-tedious historical epic finally reads to everyone as hilarious as it truly is. Pull on up to any Austin-area Drafthouse and join the growing Kubrick-funny reclamation movement. – James Scott
      May 3-7
      Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Alamo Drafthouse Village, Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

    • Arts

      Books

      Inky Eyes Comics Mixer

      Those who peddle panels and speech bubbles on an indie level, rejoice! Alienated Majesty Books plays venue to a quarterly comics mixer hosted by author Ashley Franklin (The Hills of Estrella Roja, The Skin You’re In) that acts both as a get-to-know-you event as much as it is a reading series. Inaugural readers include folks like Kat Fajardo, Laura Cañas, Logan Beecher, Morgan Thomas, and Sammy Ness. As the social provides free drinks and a plethora of perusable small-press comics for purchase, interested indie makers need only bring their pens, paper, and a few gently used books to donate to Inside Books Project, which collects and sends free books/educational materials to Texas prisoners. – James Scott
      Wed., May 7
      Alienated Majesty Books

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Mikey and Nicky (1976)

      As reported on by me to my friend over text, the first time I watched director Elaine May’s toxic boy-best-friends movie, I immediately got the flu. Such is the power of Peter Falk and John Cassavetes’ codependent mania in this miracle of a film. I say miracle because this took a lot to be in its current state, which is still largely rough-and-tumble in terms of literal film quality. Over budget and schedule, yanked from May’s hands by Paramount, and cut to shreds without her eyes on it, the initial box office release tanked May’s desire to direct for another 10 years. Lucky for all of us, she later re-cut the film into the state it screens in this week at HFC. Don’t make my mistakes: Get your flu shot before attending. – James Scott
      Wed., May 7
      Hyperreal Film Club

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Noroi: The Curse (2005)

      The found footage genre gained traction in the states with The Blair Witch Project, a scratchy camcorder-fuzzed terror about a film major getting more than she bargained for. Following in those footsteps – and in fact stepping quite beyond Blair Witch’s trail – is Japanese director Kōji Shiraishi’s fifth film. This pseudo-VHS rip spells major bad vibes from the very first scene, where you learn the director of the fictional doc you’re about to watch died in a house fire alongside his wife. What plays out over the short but never sweet 115-minute runtime are slow-burn scares of the metaphysical variety. Drafthouse drops screenings this Monday and Wednesday, but no sweat if you miss ’em. This is one scary movie that plays very well on a home screen with all the lights off. – James Scott
      May 5 & 7
      Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Scream (1996)

      Revisionism is rife in film appreciation. Sometimes it’s deserved (no, Birth of a Nation didn’t invent cinema). Sometimes it’s just contrarianism (of course Avatar has fans). But sometimes it’s just insane – like the idea that any of the post-Scream teen-friendly slashers were anywhere near as good as Wes Craven’s horror landmark. No one else could combine both brilliant scares and academic commentary so seamlessly, and his dismantling of all those well-worn terror tropes is what made them fresh again. From casting America’s sweetheart Drew Barrymore as the first to be dispatched to its convention-busting denouement, it’s clear why it’s so many people’s favorite scary movie. – Richard Whittaker
      May 4 & 7
      Violet Crown Cinema

    • Arts

      Theatre

      The Accidental Producer

      Many may know the name Marc Seriff from that ol’ online business of his (AOL, for those not in the know), but here he’ll be talking about his theatre journey that started years ago at an Austin Musical Theatre production of West Side Story. Austin Playhouse’s producing artistic director Lara Toner Haddock moderates a discussion with Seriff where he’ll regale all about his and his wife’s many projects while artists re-create the events on stage. – James Scott
      May 5 & 7
      Austin Playhouse
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