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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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Austin Art Objects Fair
And array of works by Austin-based artists and designers Mai Snow, Sarah Stellman, Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon, Ariel Wood, Leah Danze, Mercedez Rex, Urbs Design, and Will Shea are on display and ready for sale at this chill day party in one of the city's coolest hotels. Groove to tunes by DJ Q, sip some Way Out Kombucha, and, ah, tell that Louie we said "Howdy!"Sat., March 19, 1-6pm. Free.The Cat Noir Hotel, 1123 E. 11th -
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Jo Koy
You know Jo Koy has come a long way from performing at a Las Vegas coffee house to selling out the world’s most prestigious venues – including NYC's Radio City Music Hall, Chase Center in San Francisco, the Forum in Los Angeles), Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, and the ICC Theatre in Australia, right? Will you be among the laugh-seekers helping this show sell out in Austin tonight?Sat., March 19, 7:30pm. $46.50-76.50. -
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The Lifespan of a Fact
Jarrott Productions returns to live, in-person performances with a limited engagement of the hit Broadway show by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell. It's "brilliantly funny yet deadly serious," this play about journalistic integrity and facts versus truth. (Oh, yes – journalistic integrity! One of our favorite tropes!) Directed by David R. Jarrott and starring Janelle Buchanan, Will Douglas, and Carlo Lorenzo Garcia.Through March 19. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm. $25.
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Artworks Gallery: Earth, Water, Sky
This group show by Pastel Society artists Enid Wood, Nana Carrillo, and Nancy Lilly features more than 40 beautiful landscapes from the desert to the sea.Through March 26 -
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Atelier Dojo: Remote Studios
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!"Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30pm; Fridays, 6:30-9:30pm; Saturdays, 9:30-12:30pm. $5. -
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Big Medium: A Cloud Floats In / A Ship Passes By
Says the artist W. Tucker: "This show continues a through-line in my work – a conscious effort to pay attention to how I go through life, how I see the world around me, and what is happening in that world. This show represents this effort to see."Through April 9. Thu.-Sat., noon-6pm -
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Blanton Museum of Art: MemWars
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.Through July 10 -
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Carver Museum: Peace to the Queen
The photographer, humanitarian, and educator Jamel Shabazz presents a career retrospective spanning four decades of work, featuring candid portraits of women of color – as curated by Ja’nell Ajani. "At a moment when Black and Brown women are more visibly leading the charge around movements for racial and economic justice, this exhibition has materialized and aligned at a critical moment in American history and Shabazz’s career."Through Sept. 17 -
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ColdTowne Theater
ColdTowne's new brick-and-mortar place is totally open, and who knows what they'll shake this city with next? But one truth remains: ColdTowne is a designated den of gold, baby, sweet comedy gold. -
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Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams
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."Through March 20 -
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Davis Gallery: In the Wake of the Exodus
A new show of major works that legendary sculptor Steve Brudniak has completed over the past decade or so? Eerily gorgeous pieces of Industrial Age machinery and furniture and objects that are like something out of a Guillermo Del Toro fever dream, creations that "aim to share glimpses of experiences we aren't aware of through ordinary channels – into realms influenced by science, dreams, meditation, hypnosis, therapy, psychedelics, music, the subconscious, and spirituality," as the gallery says? Good thing this exhibition is up during SXSW. Because, when you want to impress any in-from-out-of-town friends with the level of talent in Austin, Brudniak's stuff is at least some of what you want them to see. Which also means, we're sure you've inferred, it's what you shouldn't miss, either.Through April 16 -
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Fallout Comedy
This hotbed of local performance is carrying on even more than usual, with an eclectic mix of live, mind-rocking comedy from some of Austin's best, all week long. Hey! The place is our cover story, as reported by Valerie Lopez! And, srsly, who would ever disagree with the sentiment of Monday night's Fuck This Week show? Check the website for details. -
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Flatbed Press: The Love and Money Show
In this new exhibition of monoprints created at Flatbed during the pandemic, Texas-based artist Maricela Sanchez breaks down barriers between art and daily life, using the iconic imagery of a $100 bill and repeating patterns of lips in multilayered monoprints to create her own currency.Through April 9 -
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ICOSA: Fragments and Memories
Here's an an exhibition of recent paintings by Shawn Camp and Michael Villarreal that reveal the connection between perception, materiality, and the recollection and re-interpretation of past experience.Through April 2 -
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It's Time to Play!
In which Austin-based artists Jodie King and Jane Robin present a two-night party featuring their never-before-seen pieces.Fri.-Sat., March 18-19, 6-8pm. Free.2525 S. Lamar #14 -
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Ivester Contemporary: El Otro Ojo
This is an exhibition of new work by San Antonio-based artist Cruz Ortiz, who uses long-established modes (for instance, portraiture) to institutionalize Tejano culture that has largely been marginalized in art history as well as in American history.Through April 15 -
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Laguna Gloria
This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.Thu.-Fri., 9am-noon; Sat.-Sun., 9am-3pm -
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Landmarks: Self-Guided Walking Tour
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. -
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Link & Pin Gallery: Rohit Records
To celebrate the return of SXSW, Link & Pin welcomes the return of Austin artist and UT professor Through March 26 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Nature Cult (early freeze, late sleet)
This excellent Downtown gallery features an exhibition of resin and extruded paintings by Donald Moffett.Through April 23 -
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Lydia Street Gallery: Elemental Mind
Austin-based artists Jacqueline May and Jana Swec seek connection to something deeper, May using outright symbols, mathematics, and language, while Swec uses landscapes as the symbols themselves. May plays with materials: oil, encaustic, collage, and more recently mosaic; Swec uses acrylic like the master painter she is, creating vistas of provocative significance.Through April 15 -
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Martha's Contemporary: Hokey Pokey + What You See Is What You Get
Here's a two-person exhibition that features painting, installation, videography, and sculpture by Moll Brau and Wes Thompson. It's a deep dive into a pool of loneliness, triumph, and rebirth. It's a forest of mazes where fireflies provide the light. It's a show of creations from a pair of terrific, hardworking local artists and you don't want to miss it. -
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Nature Studies: Arianna Jones
This is an exhibition of stone and brass works on cotton rag paper by Austin-based artist Arianna Jones, a culmination of mornings in COVID-19 confinement spent meditating along and in the Colorado River.Through April 2. Fri., 5-8pm; Sat.-Sun., noon-5pm. Free. -
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Story Circle Network
Nonprofit organization for women, offering monthly reading and writing circles and more, in North, Central, and South Austin. -
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The Blanton Museum: Invisibilia
This is the first retrospective of Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz's work in the United States. The exhibition includes 40 exemplary works from his most evocative series created between the 1970s and today, wherein the artist has "turned photographic processes inside out to underscore the intrinsic fragility and transient nature of the image," revealing "how the act of opening the aperture to light instantaneously transforms the present into the past and life into memory."Through June 5 -
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The Blanton: Fantastically French! Design and Architecture In 16th- to 18-Century Prints
Drawing primarily from the Blanton’s extensive holdings of French prints, this exhibition invites you to look closely at exquisite details, marvel at fantastic forms, and take delight in ornate embellishments that celebrate the creativity of imagination across three centuries.Through Aug. 14 -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Joye + Jaben
The Workman Gallery's storied walls are glorified this March by a two-person show featuring collage artists Lauren Jaben and Becky Joye.Through March 27 -
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West Chelsea Contemporary: Duel Diagnosis
This immersive exhibition features the artistic duo Dave Navarro and PADHiA – with special guest Al Diaz.Through April 17 -
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Wyld Gallery
This is Ray Donley's gallery of art by Native Americans, located in that company of artistic glory called Canopy and resplendent with creations from the original people of our struggling country.Call for appointment -
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Yard Dog: Dancing Nightly
Bruce Lee, the longtime curator of Waxahachie's legendary Webb Gallery, fills the walls of Austin's premier folk art venue with his newest works – familiar subjects of country music and odd Americana, as painted on vintage cotton seed sacks, canvas bags, and journal and ledger paper.Through March 27
