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Hip Haven's Moving Sale plus Estate Sale
Austin decor maker Hip Haven will be downsizing and moving to a new location. They'll have loads of great Hip Haven merchandise discounted from 15-50% off, plus 2000 square feet of vintage and antique items from multiple estates. Cash, card, or Venmo accepted. (Doors open promptly at 11--no earlybirds!)Sat. Apr. 27, 11am-5pmHip Haven Inc. -
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Laundry & Bourbon with Lonestar
Laundry and Bourbon with Lonestar, two companion one act plays set in backyards of a small Texas town. Three ladies come together to talk about their life's ups and downs. Lonestar follows the life of three small town boys and the events that have shaped them. Both shows give us highs & lows with humor spread around, for good measure.Apr. 19-May 5Navasota Theatre Alliance
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Debbie Dunn & Tami Lewis Brown: Instructions Not Included
The authors present their nonfiction graphic novel (illustrated by Chelsea Beck) that reveals "How a Team of Women Coded the Future" – how Betty Snyder, Jean Jennings, and Kay McNulty provided the early computer ENIAC the programs it needed to function.Tue., Oct. 8, 6:30pm -
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Jesus Christ Superstar
Broadway In Austin brings us the 50th anniversary tour of this award-winning Andrew-Lloyd-Weber-and-Tim-Rice phenomenon that highlights the extraordinary events in the final weeks of the life of a certain mythic Nazarene. Note: Originally staged by London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, this production won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival.Oct. 8-13. Tue.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 1 & 7pm. $30 and up. -
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Max Booth III: Something Indecent
This variety show, hosted by … um, shit, we forgot his name … anyway, it features Shane McKenzie, Jess Hagemann, Lucas Mangum, and Robert Dean and promises to be "a strange night of debauchery and hilarious depravity."Tue., Oct. 8, 7:30-9pm. Free. -
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Punch Comedy
That's right, Matt Bearden's legendary Tuesday night comedy showcase returns for another year of highlighting the best talent in town. Not sure who's on the lineup – it changes from week to week, of course, and is sharply curated – but there's always Bearden, of course, and a bunch of people who can make you laugh yourself to shambles. Word to the wise: This gig sells out like whoa, so reserve tickets early.Tue., Dec. 3, 8pm. $7-11.
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12 Ophelias (a Play with Broken Songs)
Check it: "Shakespeare's Ophelia rises up out of the water, dreaming of Pop-Tarts and other sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called a Rude Boy, and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself." This Caridad Svich play is directed by Jess Shoemaker.Oct. 3-13. Tue.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $15-26. -
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Ao5 Gallery: Rust Dust & Lust
That Gabe Leonard fellow – that guy with all those girls, guns, and glory – returns to A05 with his cinematically staged paintings of sharpshooters, gangsters, gamblers, and musicians.Through Oct. 12. Free, but RSVP for the reception. -
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Art Hop 2019
Feel like heading a little north, citizen? This statewide juried arts competition, organized by Georgetown Art Works, features exhibitions at the Georgetown Public Library and the Georgetown Art Center.Through Oct. 26 -
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Carver Museum: Future Inhabitants
The willful self-destruction of humanity by Earth’s most formidable species – humans – is the topic of New Orleans-born and Dallas-raised photographer Tia Boyd. Through a series of portraits, Boyd reveals "a surviving race of godlike women warriors who have come to terraform the planet for future inhabitants." And here's our full review of the show.Through Jan. 11 -
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Charles White and the Legacy of the Figure
This is one of two exhibitions on master American artist Charles White that will be mounted at UT this fall, celebrating a major donation of White’s artworks by Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon, just as they participate in the centennial commemoration of the artist’s birth.Through Nov. 30Christian-Green Gallery, 201 E. 21st -
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Co-Lab Projects: A Land with No Name
Sara Madandar's new series of paintings takes its inspiration from Persian history, exploring how complex notions of gender and national identity have changed in Iran between the 19th and 20th centuries.Through Oct. 26 -
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Cowboys in Space and Fantastic Worlds
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.Through Dec. 1 -
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Curator-led Gallery Talk: Charles White
Learn about White's visual renderings of the Black experience, as presented via the Blanton's exhibition of the artist's drawings and prints – and the art of his peers.Tue., Oct. 8, 12:30pm. Free. -
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Davis Gallery: Big Pink Blanket of Love
In partnership with the Peabody Fund and Dell Children’s Medical Center, Davis Gallery presents a unique group show in support of: the gallery's own Jan Heaton, one of Austin’s premier: watercolorists. More than 60 artists have contributed 4" x 4" squares of their own artwork in an overall pink palette that will be hand-stitched together to create a pink quilt, symbolizing the community’s compassion, strength, and friendship – in memory of Heaton's daughter, Kristin Peabody, taken by an aggressive cancer after ten years of battle.Through Oct. 12 -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Secure the Perimeter
Some artists try to capture their city, their geographical region, and they succeed at it. Only the best will ever succeed as well as Austin's John Mulvany does in capturing his Eastside neighborhood. Listen: "Everything in life is present in the neighborhood," says the artist. "If you are inclined to walk around with your eyes and senses open, you notice things you might otherwise miss. A dead grackle in the road, the unkempt beauty of East Austin backyards, the violent magenta-pink veil of cherry blossom enveloping a vacant house, a cockroach carried away by ants. This exhibition is an invitation to look closer. The neighborhood, like the natural world, is in a constant state of creation, transformation and decay." And this is precisely what you'll see, in Mulvany's array of realist, atmosphere-haunted paintings on the familiar grayDUCK walls. (See Barbara Purcell's review of the show right here.)Through Oct. 20 -
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LINE Open Studio: Adrian Armstrong
The LINE Residency's second artist-in-residence explores identity and what it means to be a black person living in modern America, developing a new series of large portraits of black womenOpen studio hours: Through Oct. 15. Tue., 5-8pm; Thu., 2-5pm; Sat., 5-7pm -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Roy McMakin and Rosy Keyser
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."Through Nov. 9 -
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Sir David Adjaye at UT's School of Architecture
The world-renowned architect delivers this year's Jean and Bill Booziotis Lecture in Architecture.Tue., Oct. 8, 5pm. Free.Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium, 2313 Red River -
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The Blanton Museum: She-Wolf + Lower Figs
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.Through Dec. 29 -
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The Contemporary Austin: The Sorcerer's Burden
The complex relationship between contemporary art and anthropology shapes the subject of "The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn," an 11-artist exhibition representing a wide range of media – including painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance. And here's our own Robert Faires with a full review of the show. -
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The People's Gallery: Call For Artworks
The City of Austin seeks two and three-dimensional artworks in any medium from Austin visual artists, galleries, or visual arts organizations for the upcoming 2020 People’s Gallery Exhibition, which will be on view from February 2020-January 2021.Deadline: Oct. 27 -
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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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Visual Arts Center: Fall 2019
The fall array of exhibitions at UT's Visual Arts Center features Nikita Gale's "EASY LISTENING," Kenneth Tam's "Details," Maria Antelman's "Mechanisms of Affection," Saakred's "Sin Nombre, Sin Cuerpo," and more. -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Box of Light
Will Klemm, a realist master of tone and texture in oils, was one of the first artists represented by Wally Workman back in the day. By this time he's revealed more than 50 solo exhibitions across the country. "My intention is to communicate something abstract and interior, while still referencing our everyday lives," says the artist. And now the Workman walls are filled, in image after image, with his sublime success in achieving that intention.Through Oct. 27 -
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Women & Their Work: Wild, Wild Country
Preetika Rajgariah’s new exhibition is where culture, capitalism, and classism collide on the yoga mat, with the artist exploring – through sculpture, video, and performance – how this spiritual practice with deep roots in Hinduism has proliferated into nearly every part of American society.Through Nov. 14
