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Amanda Bestor-Siegal: The Caretakers
The author, in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken, presents her new book – a dramatic exploration of identity, class, and caregiving.Wed., April 13, 7pm -
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Book Tips and Sips
Join Texas Book Festival and Austin authors Dalia Azim and Juli Berwald for the first free, public, in-person event of the year.Wed., April 13, 6pm. Free. -
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Moontower Comedy Festival
If the proverbial 800-pound gorilla were weaponized, this would be its manifestation as living embodiment of the nation's comedy-industrial complex – now smack in the center of your own Downtown. Reigning supreme in the scene with more laughter than the King in Yellow has lack of masks, this annual conflagration brings the biggest and best names from all over, adds a happy helping of equally wise locals, and sets 'em onstage all over town (with the venerable Paramount as the epicenter) for your giggling diversion from humanity's headlong plummet toward the grave. More than 150 comics in more than ten venues for more than ten days – and who the hell's gonna survive the afterparties with less than a Krakatoa in their morning-after skull? We've got a plethora of solid coverage for you right here, but – do check the festival website for details.April 13-24. $99 and up. -
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The Plastic Bag Store
Texas Performing Arts presents this local installation – at the Blue Genie space on Airport, no less – of Robin Frohardt's brilliant and immersive tribute to the vulgar overdoity of plastic waste that humans are subjecting themselves and the rest of our planet to. Listen: "Visit a grocery store where the shelves are stocked with thousands of original, hand-sculpted items — produce and meat, dry goods and toiletries, cakes and sushi rolls — all made from discarded, single-use plastics in an endless cacophony of packaging. When you visit, the store transforms into a cinema for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic, sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations." Sensationally graphic yet more than just spectacle, this thing's got philosophical teeth as sharp as the fangs we're sinking deep into our own carotid. (Note: Some seatings will be free, via Fusebox Festival.)Through April 17. Sat., 11am, 1pm, 6pm, 8pm; Sun., 11am, 1pm, 4pm; Wed.-Fri., 4pm, 6pm, 8pm. $15-25.
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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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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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Disney’s The Lion King
This is, yes, the highly acclaimed, soul-stirring, kinetically spectacular, elaborately costumed, omg-we're-running-out-of-adjectives stage adaptation of the Academy Award-winning 1994 film from Walt Disney Pictures.Through April 24. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 1 & 6:30pm. $35 and up. -
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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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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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MACC: Entropy
Recent works by Venezuelan artist Mery Godigna Collet, revealing the artist’s ability to transform deep research into profoundly moving works of art.Through June 22 -
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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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Mexic-Arte Museum: Chicano/a Art, Movimiento y Más en Austen, Tejas,1960s to 1980s
This exhibition serves as a primer on the rich and understudied Chicano art movement in Austin, presenting a variety of mediums, themes, and artists, bringing together revolutionary artwork with abstract, conceptual, and commercial art, to show the breadth of creativity these artists achieved.Through June 19 -
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SAGE Studio: Bottle, Shirt, Whistle
Here's a solo exhibition by Philadelphia-based artist Woodley White, with drawings that focus on everyday objects – presented as a full-scale installation, with White's art covering entire walls.Through May 7 -
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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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The Contemporary Austin: The Whisperers
Tarek Atoui is a Paris-based artist and composer whose work explores the medium of sound through a highly collaborative process that generates networks of community involvement. The dynamic installations on view in this exhibition are both sound environments and spaces for activation through occasional live performances.Through Aug. 14 -
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The Rocky Horror Show
Here's ZACH Theatre's spin on the Richard O'Brien cult classic, a full, spectacular production complete with party-packs and audience participation, directed by Dave Steakley.Through May 1. Tue.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat.-Sun., 2:30 & 7:30pm. $25 and up. -
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UT Idea Lab: Never Alone
This is the first public exhibition of the work of Kendrick Mitchell and Christopher Williams, who are serving life sentences at the same maximum-security prison in southeast Texas.Through July 1. Tue.-Fri., noon-5pm210 W. 24th -
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Wally Workman Gallery: An Abstract Landscape
In which the painter Gordon Fowler returns to the landscapes of his youth in the hills of Austin, Texas, and brings a storied past to full, living color on canvas after canvas after canvas.Through May 1 -
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Women & Their Work: Delimitations
Through the use of Morse code, semaphore, and the flag form Alexandra Robinson appropriates symbols of American exceptionalism, which are informed by her upbringing and familiarity with military family life, and American ideals. The work in this exhibition is steeped in ideas of identity and signifiers that question place and how one exists in that place.Through June 2