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All Shades Considered: Panel Discussion
Feed your brain at this convo featuring "All Shades Considered" artists Anthony Flores, House of Kenzo, Michael Anthony Garcia, p1nkstar, and curator Ben Aqua. The topic: "It's Cooler in the Shade."Wed., June 19, 7pm -
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Black Girl Love
This is a stage adaptation of Anondra “Kat” Williams' short stories about black girls in love. Featuring Faith Anderson, g’beda, Allegra Jade Fox, and Oktavea L. Williams, directed by kt shorb and Simone Raquel Alexander for GenEnCo. Join them for opening weekend as part of your Austin Black Pride celebrations!Through June 22. Wed.-Sat, 8pm. $15-35. -
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BuzzKill at the Buzz Mill
Looking for a regular Wednesday night stand-up showcase? Carlton Wilcoxson and Angelina Martin are the new hosts of Buzzkill at the Buzz Mill, and they're fixing to show you a laughing good time.Wednesdays, 9pm. Free.
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ACC Dance Classes
The Dance Department of Austin Community College offers classes in modern, jazz, ballet, and improvisation techniques, with student work produced twice a year in the Choreographers' Showcase. Teachers include Ellen Bartel, Jessica Cox, Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Roxanne Gage, Darla Johnson, Sunny Shen, Catherine Solaas and Melissa Watt. Note: Classes can be taken for credit and applied toward your degree.Prices vary, scholarships available. -
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All Shades Considered: Group Exhibition
Ben Aqua curates a group exhibition of 17 QPOC Texans making art in photography, digital collage, illustration, performance, fashion design, new media, video, and painting to better visualize the artists' lived experience as brown queers in the Lonestar State.:Artists include: Adiean, Anthony Flores, Ben Aqua, Claudia G Aparicio Gamundi, Diego Mireles Durán, Henry N Rodriguez, House of KENZO, Isaiya Venegas, Josue Hart, Manuel Morales, Michael Anthony Garcia, Natalia Rocafuerte, Niko, p1nkstar, Jp Rivfe, Josh Garcia, S Rodriguez, Saakred, and Wayne Dean. Use #AllShadesConsidered on the gram!
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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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Art for the People: Robots in Rowboats
The colorful artwork of Lauren Briére escorts the viewer on a visual journey into outer space, the fun of sports, walks in nature, adventures in rowboats, and more – with robots. -
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Atelier 1205: We Shake with Joy, We Shake with Grief
Witness here an array of life-sized and larger works recently created by Meena Matocha, the artist having wielded charcoal, ashes, soil, acrylics, and wax to create paintings that "combine abstraction and figuration, exploring the space between grief and joy, the place where heaven and earth converge."Through Aug. 4 -
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Atelier Dojo
This school of representational art is led by four world-class locals, teaches drawing and painting (both fundamental and advanced programs), has open studios with live modeling, a schedule of workshops featuring visiting artists from around the world, and is located in the heart of Big Medium's Canopy complex. Oh look – we profiled and interviewed the faculty right here! -
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Auditions: Next to Normal
Ground Floor Theatre and Deaf Austin Theatre are holding auditions for this Tony-winning musical, to be directed by Lisa Scheps and Brian Cheslik for performances in December. This production will be fully deaf inclusive, with each character double-cast with a deaf actor and a hearing actor (some characters are deaf and some hearing). See website for details and appointments.Mon., July 29, 6:30-10pm (hearing); Tue., July 30, 6:30-10pm (deaf) -
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Best Comedy on Airport
There's Sugar Water Purple on Wednesday nights – look, we reviewed their show right here. And this Thursday features improv supergroup Friends for Now and the Cold Ones with their fresh AF sketches. Friday brings the return of the actually-quite-scrutable Y'all We Asian, the laser-sharp ladies of Loverboy, and the Live at ColdTowne stand-up showcase. Saturday features Prayer Circle Comedy's Ho Ho Holy Shit!, followed by Martini Ranch's radiance of Weird Gay Vibes, and Riot Society, and – oh, see website for more! -
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Big Medium: Memory Palace
In her first solo show at Canopy's anchoring gallery, Rehab El Sadek conceptualizes a meditative journey through personal past and the ancient world, drawing inspiration from classic architecture, modern architectural theory, world literature, and historical texts. And the Chronicle's Robert Faires reviews the show right here.Through July 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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Co-Lab Projects: Ebony Reprinted
What does Dana Robinson use to create her monoprints? Images that circulated in printed advertisements, images from which she's removed traces of exploitative white-dominated capitalist visual language to allow the individuals pictured to regain their agency in the world. Images from vintage Ebony magazine ads, in this show.Through June 29 -
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Davis Gallery: METROmorphosis
This new show features works by Annie Darling and David Elliott, the paintings and sculpture on display here offering each artist's own vision – always colorful, sometimes dazzling – of our quickly expanding and changing city.Through July 13 -
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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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Immortal Longings
That four-time Tony winner Terrence McNally explores the rich history of the Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev’s itinerant Russian ballet company, in this newest play of his. See what happens in the the tempestuous relationship between Diaghilev and dancer Vaslav Nijinsky – as directed by Peter Rothstein for Zach Theatre, featuring choreography by Kelli Foster Warder. And here's that Robert Faires with a review!Through July 14. Wed.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:30 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $30-93. -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Federal Triangle
Here's a new series of images shot in and around Washington, D.C., with which photographer Mike Osborne might provoke a slightly paranoid twitch in your potentially surveilled soul. Bonus: Leon Polk Smith in the Project Room annex. -
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Martha Kelly
This local comic's been lighting up your screens all over, especially on that "Baskets" show, and we reckon the smart crowd's gonna be packing the theatre for these shows. Suggestion: Get your tickets early.June 19-22. Wed.-Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 7:30 & 10pm. $12-23. -
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Neal Stephenson: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
OK, then: Get in line early, all you snowcrashers.Wed., June 19, 7pm -
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Stephen L. Clark Gallery: Ornithology
This is a new show by Kate Breakey, including hand-colored images printed on silk and embroidered with thread, a variety of unique quail eggs, and much more: powerful in its beauty, nigh on devastating in its delicacy, and highly recommended.Through Sept. 7 -
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Strange Beasts VI: The Return Of The King
It's the city's best cinematic tie-in, we're thinking, as 19 amazing artists pay graphic tribute to Godzilla, the king of the kaiju, the master of all monsters – and his fiercest foes and greatest allies. Originals and prints available among many monstrous machinations.Through July 14 -
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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 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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The Russell Collection: Ethereal
This is a curated collection of works from artists Kathy Buist, Katherine Houston, and Jaime Kirkland.Through June 29 -
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Twyla Contemporary Art
“It changes the room and really makes the house.” The new in-house gallery of these fine-art promoters boasts a diverse roster of artists and includes work by Austin-based Terra Goolsby and Rebecca Rothfus Harrell. See website for stylish details.209 W. Ninth -
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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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Underground Comedy
This newly revitalized basement venue is dedicated to "bringing the best in alternative comedy with shows seven nights a week." For instance: Monday starts things off with that sprightly revue of optimism called Fuck This Week, Tuesday shows you how The Floor Is Lava, there's the all-female comedy showcase called Garage on Wednesdays, and Thursday invites you to witness the Fate of the Hilarious. Then, on Friday, don't miss Unnecessary Sequels (where comics pitch movies you probably don't want to see) and the inarguable power of Sure Thing, hosted by Duncan Carson and Brendan K. O’Grady. Saturday's got some story-centered Sweet Lightning for you, followed by Jasmine Ellis with Been Living Color, and – see website for more! -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Monsteras
This is the WWG's sixth solo show with local figurative painter Patrick Puckett, the artist's larger-than-life canvases deploying the color red to lend his singular figures an undeniable presence.Through June 23 -
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Wander
Austin's innovative Art In Public Places project has conjured up an excellent choose-your-own-adventure sort of experience that incorporates actual sculpture on display around our urban hub. Roam the streets, roam the art, deep in the heart of Texas.All the time, any time -
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Women & Their Work: Truth Before Flowers
Jennifer Ling Datchuk disentangles histories and traumas through objects (teacups, dinnerware) culturally associated with womanhood, using porcelain "to speak in dualities – especially of fragility, resilience, and ultimately the struggle between diversity and the flawless white body."Through July 25. free. -
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Yard Dog: The Ballad of Western Expressionism
The renowned musician and painter Tom Russell's work reflects his life as a world traveler and the years spent immersing himself in the culture of the American Southwest. Now the man's newly transplanted to Austin and here's a show of his vibrant works.
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Austin Public
Committed to freedom of speech and expression, Austin Public is a nonexclusive and content-neutral media studio that offers low- and no-cost training, equipment, facilities, and cablecasting services to all Austinites. It is managed by the Austin Film Society under contract from the city of Austin, and operates cable channels 10, 11, and 16, and live streams. New training classes are ongoing; see website for calendar.
