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The local powerhouse of figurative painting, the art school that's the smart school for artists of all kinds, they've got a painting-along-at-home series going to help you keep your skills honed in these socially restrictive times, featuring live costumed models posing on camera and a thriving community of creatives rendering that lovely human biotecture from their separate studios. "Join us for a three-hour costumed-model drawing session. Use any supplies you wish, listen to music, share your work, chat with others. It’s a great way to stay connected with your art community!"

Many artists work in multiple mediums, but for Lubbock-raised Terry Allen, music, performance, writing, and visual artwork are truly all part of the same practice. As a visual artist, he often creates immersive sculptural installations with an aspect of performance, incorporated through projections and video. For this ninth installment in the Blanton’s Contemporary Project series, Allen reveals a three-channel video installation and a related group of drawings.

The Dougherty Art Center's central gallery displays new paintings by the (rather brilliant) artist Emma Hadzi Antich, her mountainous landscapes serving as oblique yet highly evocative mirrors, illustrating parallels between seemingly disparate aspects of nature, revealing how the wild in the human and the human in the wild can affect each other.

The Contemporary Austin presents the first-ever museum survey of works by Daniel Johnston. "Step into the surreal universe of this visionary musician and artist, filled with love, loss, ghosts, aliens, superheroes, and the eternal battle between good and evil."

A new show by Austin's B. Shawn Cox is always reason to celebrate, we say, and this latest one at Davis Gallery is a perfect corroboration of that statement. This is what happens when the artist explores subtext with polka-dotted domesticated florals that hide deconstructed cowboys, lenticular eye-candy featuring blended dualities of Western icons, and folded paper quilts incorporating text to supra any subtext. Bonus: New works by Dana Younger will be on display, too? You Davis people are trying to spoil us, is that it?

Laura Crehuet Berman's new exhibition here brings together her recent monotypes and collages, in which the artist has created images that layer together time, space, form, and color.

Use your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program any time you feel like it. BONUS: There's also a free, docent-led tour starting at Marc Quinn's "Spiral of the Galaxy" (1501 Red River) on Sun., Jan. 8, 11am.

The main gallery displays "Eagle," an exhibition of new drawings and photographs by Tom Molloy – the artist’s seventh presentation at this elegant Downtown venue.

This new show at Phillip Niemeyer's excellent Downtown gallery groups young French Canadian painter Alexandre Pépin, weaver Donya Stockton, and ceramicist Ryan McKerley. This work is "united by a joyful focus, an energetic quiet," as the PR says. As we say: "This stuff is gorgeous and crafty AF, and you'd be well-served to make an appointment to check it out."

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), a key figure in the development of color-field painting, was a tireless experimenter with color, form, and technique. This exhibition celebrates the generous gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation of ten prints and six proofs that span five decades of the artist’s career.

On display: Four distinct bodies of work that Austin-based video and mixed-media artist Ariel René Jackson has produced over the past five years.

In conjunction with the upcoming city-wide printmaking festival, Wally Workman presents this two-person show with Korean artist Jihye Lim and Texas artist Laura Post. Post's sculptures combine printmaking techniques with cast handmade paper to expand the boundaries of the medium of print and redefine ideas of portraiture; Lim's mezzotints explore ideas of rest, depicting the figure physically becoming one with objects of leisure.