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Gabriele Galimberti - The Ameriguns & Toy Stories: Artist Talk & Reception
Internationally acclaimed Gabriele Galimberti’s first US exhibition of “Ameriguns” & “Toy Stories” comes to Austin! The people in these images are from all walks of life, with no particular political party, race, culture, or gender in favor. Ameriguns and Toy Stories deliver striking images exploring the timely issues of gun culture and the impact of modern inequalities on children.Fri. Apr. 12, 6pm-9pmLydia Street Gallery -
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Romeo y Juliet
A bilingual adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most cherished works, Romeo y Juliet recounts the tale of two star-crossed lovers, daughters from the feuding houses of Capulet and Montague, reimagined in Alta, California in the 1840’s prior to the annexation of California to the United States.Apr. 10-21UT Theatre and Dance
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Fiddler on the Roof
Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher and the team behind South Pacific, The King and I, and Oslo bring a fresh vision to this beloved theatrical masterpiece, now with with movement and dance from acclaimed Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter, based on the original staging by Jerome Robbins.Through April 7. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 1 & 7pm. $30 and up. -
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Funniest Person in Austin
Ah, here it comes again – the final weekend of the annual competition that brings all the ATX funny to one stage, at least sequentially, in order to determine who's gonna wear the cape and crown. Oh! Who's gonna be the winnah? Who's gonna be the champeen? This is the last weekend of semifinals, followed by Monday night's ultimate battle for stand-up supremacy. We've been ranting at you for the last several issues to make your reservations, citizen! WHERE ARE YOU NOW?Through May 13. $6 and up. -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Sara & Shane Scribner
The Scribners return – and we're almost ready for them. We mean, the eerie magical-realist beauty that this husband-and-wife team render by way of figurative art is so powerful it's difficult to prepare for, but, by the hoary mane of Sleipnir, we're gonna attempt it. Highly recommended.Through April 20 -
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Angela Shelf Medearis: Our People
During 2018, Medearis – known to millions as The Kitchen Diva – donated several books, manuscripts, photographs, awards, and research papers to the Carver Museum. Now, they’ve been curated and presented as this new exhibition.Through June 23 -
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Atelier 1205: Paper Fields
This show unites the work of Austin art educators Kiley Grantges and Jennifer Schroeder. Grantges elevates drinking straws and office copy paper into bas-relief arrays; Schroeder reconstitutes the exuberant mess resulting from her young students’ art explorations into paper mosaics.Closing reception: Sun., April 28, 2-5pm -
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Butridge Gallery: Mayuko Ono Gray and Katy Schmader
Gray’s graphite drawings combine traditional Japanese calligraphy with Western drawing practices and aesthetic; Schmader’s abstract collages explore the connection between tactile traces of a physical environment and the historic system of landscape semiotics.Through May 3 -
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Carver Museum: Constant Escape
Founding members of the Austin-based Black Mountain Project – Adrian Aguilera, Betelhem Makonnen, and Tammie Rubin – debut a new body of work in sculpture, photography, text, and video. Also on display at the Carver: "Re-Membering Is the Responsibility of the Living," an installation by Taja Lindley.Through July 27 -
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Davis Gallery: A Shared Vision
There are about as many "shared visions" as there are pairs of eyeballs in this miserable world, of course, but this show's title is intended to embody the greater meaning of the phrase and – the important part, here – it titles a collection of artwork by Denise M. Fulton and Sam Yeates. The vision of either of those local artists, and the skill each exerts in rendering that vision visible to the rest of us, is nigh on incredible. And now here are new paintings from both of them, the modern fabulists Fulton and Yeates capturing – via oldschool tech like pigments and brushes, imagine that! – realities (and fantasies) sufficient to fuel immersive dreams for years to come.Through April 13 -
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Elisabet Ney Museum: Women of Flatbed
This part of Print Austin features work by leading female figures from the past and future of Austin's own Flatbed Press, including Alice Leora Briggs, Suzi Davidoff, Sandra C. Fernández, Annalise Natasha Gratovich, Sandria Hu, Sharon Kopriva, Mary McCleary, Melissa Miller, Celia Munoz, Liliana Porter, Linda Ridgway, Julie Speed, Sydney Yeager, and more. And, oh look, our Robert Faires gives you a fine preview right here.Through April 28 -
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Harry Ransom Center: The Rise of Everyday Design
Here's a new and detailed look at the history of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America, showing how it transformed the homes and lives of ordinary people and how it continues to influence modern design.Through July 14 -
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La Peña Gallery: Mujeres De Luz
You're invited to celebrate International Women's Day with this group exhibition by women artists, featuring work by Alondra Acosta, Ana Borne, Cecilia Colomé, Veronica Castillo, Juanita Cole Towery, Naxieli Gomez Traub, Theresa Ibañez, Scherezade García, Iliana Emilia García, Mary Jane Garza, Yleana Martínez, Leticia Mosqueda, Farah Rivera, Victoria Rivero, Teresa Scott, Julia Santos Solomon, Elvira Sarmiento, Emily Socolov, Rama Tiru, Jackie Welch, and Terry Ybañez.Through April 10 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Tony Marsh and Natalie Frank
This is the first Reynolds Gallery show for both of these artists, and we were all like, "Hey, Natalie Frank! With a Grimm exhibition just in time for Ballet Austin's Grimm Tales based on her fantastic works!" and we barely even made note of Mr. Marsh's part of this two-person display … until we saw some stunning images showing the gorgeous and fairly chthonic "Cauldrons and Crucibles" work the man does with ceramics small and large – and then we made damned good and sure our schedule was clear for an even longer visit to this excellent Downtown venue.Through June 8 -
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Mexic-Arte Museum: Drawings from the Permanent Collection
This is the first time that the museum offers an exhibition focused solely on drawings from its permanent collection, with works by more than 40 artists who explore a wide variety of techniques.Through June 3 -
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Stephen L. Clark Gallery: Flowers
In which acclaimed collagist Lance Letscher focuses his prodigious paper-manipulating skills on botanicals and the gallery's walls become a bright garden of delights. Our review? Our own, as it were, collage? Right here, citizen.Through April 13 -
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Texas State History Museum: Texas From Above
Here's an original exhibition featuring aerial images captured by photographer Jay B. Sauceda during a six-day flying journey around the state. This show highlights the beauty of Texas borderlands and explores the process of capturing the images.Through June 16 -
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The Blanton Museum: Zulu Time
This new solo exhibition of two-dimensional and sculptural works by Brooklyn native Kambui Olujimi, now on view in the Blanton's Contemporary Project gallery, will revitalize your awareness of what's coordinated and universal. And, listen, the Blanton now stays open until 8pm on Fridays – through July 26.Through July 13 -
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The Blanton: Copies, Fakes, and Reproductions
This exhibition, a Holly Borham-curated collection focused on printmaking in the Renaissance, presents works that showcase the various intentions behind copies, ranging from legit collaborations between designers and printmakers to the unauthorized copies of Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts (these resulted in a landmark legal decision against image piracy). And, listen, the Blanton now stays open until 8pm on Fridays – through July 26.Through June 16 -
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The Blanton: The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music
This film by The Propeller Group, an artist collective based in Vietnam and California, combines actual footage and staged portrayals of Vietnamese funeral rituals that shift dramatically from documentary to poetic. And, listen, the Blanton now stays open until 8pm on Fridays – through July 26.Through May 26 -
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The Contemporary Austin: Hi, how are you, Gonzo?
Abraham Cruzvillegas’ vibrant artistic practice begins with the concept of autoconstrucción, an idea rooted in transformation, exchange, and play. During the exhibition, a series of site-specific sculptures will be enlivened through music, performances, workshops, cooking, storytelling, artmaking, skateboarding, and more, in activations led by the artist’s collaborators from Mexico City and community partners from Austin. See our feature article for more.Through July 14 -
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The People's Gallery: Exhibition 2019
Here's the 15th annual exhibition at Austin City Hall, presenting a wide array of painting, sculpture, drawing, and other media by 113 local artists. This year, the exhibition includes a special selection of photographs: The Bold Beauty Project of Texas, featuring images of Texas women with disabilities taken by photographers from across the state. -
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Umlauf Sculpture Garden: With Out, With In
If you're standing at the crossroads of wood and sculpture, one of the talented giants you'll see landmarking that intersection is James Surls. If you're at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum for this new show, you'll be amazed by more than 30 of that maestro's works – his iconic, surrealistic wooden creations as well as a few of his giant steel and bronze structures. Note: This is, surprisingly, Surls' first solo exhibition of sculptures in Austin.Through Aug. 18 -
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Women & Their Work: Walk the Sky
Bumin Kim's thread and string become the media to explore many of the same questions usually investigated with paint, examining the nature of line beyond the two-dimensional surface into three-dimensional space.Through April 18 -
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Words/Matter: Latin American Art and Language
Drawn primarily from the Blanton’s extensive collection of Latin American art, this exhibition offers an innovative perspective on how artists of the region have explored the links between visual art and written language since the early decades of the twentieth century, with examples ranging from Alejandro Xul Solar and Joaquín Torres-García’s creation of alphabets and metaphysical signs, to the visual experiments of Brazilian concrete poets in the 1960s, and the political codification of language by conceptualists since the 1970s.Through May 26 -
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Yard Dog: City and Sky
The work of Chicago-based artist, illustrator, and muralist Nate Otto occupies its own lane somewhere in between the worlds of folk art, street art, lowbrow art, and contemporary fine art. And now a rich portion of it will occupy this popular South Congress gallery.Through April 14
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