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VSA Texas presents an evening of laughs with the debut of seven new Austin comics: Jourdan Sarate, Nicole Cortichiato, K. Fargo, Mary, Jen McKinney, Sarah Beckman, and Lonestar.

The photographer Ilana Panich-Linsman gives us a small glimpse into the lives of those detained and displaced, via images captured on the U.S.-Mexican Border.

Here's an exhibition – adventurous, fantastic, and let's not forget fun – by 57 Texas-based artists, featuring a diversity of styles and mediums.

This new exhibition, curated by Alyssa Taylor Wendt, brings together a collection of international artists to present work – video, installation, photography, painting, and sculpture – in conversation around the concept of genetic memory. Featuring Beili Liu, Cordula Ditz, Scott Vincent Campbell, Birthe Piontek, Jaime Zuverza, and including an excerpt from Wendt’s latest film, The Memory Inheritance.

This new show highlights new developments in Jeffrey Gibson’s genre-bridging practice, with 50 works made between 2014 and 2018 – including intricately beaded wall-hangings and punching bags, paintings, ceramics, garments, helmets, and a new video commissioned for this exhibition.

Through intimate portraits and abstract landscapes, Vy Ngo depicts the experience of physically and emotionally living in two different cultures, her show here a reflection of the space in which many children of immigrants live within their identities, their communities, and in the context of the American Dream.

David Culpepper, founding member of Ink Tank Collective, presents a new show of works – models, maquettes, other mordant manifestations – in this busy Springdale General outpost of Co-Lab Projects.

Yippee ki yay, space cadet, it's time to head 'em off at the Pass Nebula as the State History Museum presents an exhibition that spans more than 150 years of Western and science fiction history and features 100-plus artifacts (including props from Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, and other skiffy media fare). And our arch-geek himself, the estimable Richard Whittaker, also a part-time Sith Lord, reviews the show for you here.

Yes, it's a ways up there, isn't it? Georgetown? But, tell you what, it's totally worth the drive to see these intricate, peculiar, gorgeous works of ceramics created by Jennifer Hill. It's a series in which the adept artist explores the visual relationships between land-based flora and marine life, and witnessing it is the next best thing to scuba diving around Cozumel with the ghost of H.P. Lovecraft.

The artist Mikhail Karikis' Children of Unquiet from 2014 gets the big screen treatment here, and you can watch: Videos are accessible to all and free to view.

Cameron Mackintosh presents the new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony-winning musical phenomenon, direct from its acclaimed Broadway return. Remember how good it was? How it roused the rabble and galvanized the crowd? How it stirred the heart and the mind to greater glory? Could it be even better now? Listen: "New staging and re-imagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo." We daresay, hell yes!

Works by 29 artists in a variety of media, each piece no larger than 15 inches in any direction. Featuring Leslie Kell, Jo Lagattuta, Carol Hayman, Shruti Mehta, Jane Pomeroy, Pete Holland, and Joy Timmons.

McMakin brings us recontextualized furniture and untold (actually, very carefully quantified) numbers of coats of paint, with his "Two Bowls, a Cabinet Door, Two Tables, and a Window (with a Blue Wall)," and Keyser's got a new showcase of her vivid "Works on Paper."

Here's an exhibition from the studio of the legendary Max, featuring a significant nod to Woodstock, celebrated at three separate receptions.

This exhibit showcases the work of Martha Grenon, one of Austin's premier music photographers, her images capturing the excitement of bands performing in Austin since the early Eighties.

This installation presents new work that expands Lily Cox-Richard’s research into the contextual history of materials, making visible unseen systems that dictate materials’ production, value, and use, and engages larger questions of natural resources, labor, the specifics of place, and the politics of viewership.

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.

Yeah, no, this is a monumental showing of work – including a series of paintings commissioned for the exhibition – by one of the best, most provocative artists working on this planet. The former Austinite (he taught at UT for 20 years) Michael Ray Charles "is known for art that investigates the legacy of historic racial stereotypes of African Americans. Since the 1990s, he's created complex, layered paintings that challenge stereotypes, power dynamics, and social and cultural hierarchies." Ah, words can't even – but our Arts Editor Robert Faires offers a fine preview right here.

Three Cups Collaborative offers this opportunity to discover or renew the power of your physicality, voice, and creativity in a 2.5-hour workshop lead by Stephanie Courtney.

Austin-based artist Sarah Ferguson has experimented with the trifecta of light, color, and perception for two decades, creating vibrant and immersive experiences for the viewer. See this show and witness spectral manifestation as never before.