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Funniest Person In Austin
With the return of Cap City Comedy Club comes the return of Cap City's signature annual event, in which local comics (or, in some cases, the merely aspirationally funny) take the stage night after night, battling it out with standup sets, to see who will eventually be crowned this year's Funniest Person In Austin. Right now the preliminary rounds are coming to an end – with the champion-packed night of finals finals set to rock this town on Wed., Sept. 21.Prelims: Tue., Sept. 6, 8pm. $10-18. -
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Sage Studio: Body Work
Here's an exploration of all things anatomical and automotive, with two-dimensional art reflecting on human bodies and three-dimensional sculptures created around the theme of auto bodies. The show features pieces from 12 artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities – artists from Austin, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and California.Through Sept. 17
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Art4Water: Sacred Springs Kites
Art4Water’s inaugural program (now on view at Downtown's gorgeous library) is a collaboration between the Watershed Association, Terry Zee Lee, and more than 30 national artists in the creation of dozens and dozens of water-inspired art kites.Through Nov. 30. Free. -
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Camiba Gallery: Entangled
Collected and respected for her experimental approach to painting, Charlotte Smith is well established as royalty in Texas contemporary abstract art; this is an exhibition of her most recent paintings.Through Sept. 24 -
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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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Cloud Tree: Plastered and Possessed
This is a two-woman exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Carly Weaver and Mariel Wilmoth.Through Sept. 11 -
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Davis Gallery: Trailheads and Transmutations
Artist couple Felice House and Dana Younger present painting and sculpture that studies, observes, processes, and transmutes the wild spaces and creatures of Texas, their work deeply resonant with that of painter Thomas Cole, father of the Hudson River School. Natural beauty, in other words, captured with consummate skill by two longtime locals.Through Sept. 3 -
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Dr. Seuss: Concept Drawings Tour
Ted Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss, of course) drew each page for every Dr. Seuss book published during his lifetime. For each final line drawing, he would create multiple concept drawings leading up to the final published image. See the man's creative process at work in this collection, currently on tour nationwide and now on display at Austin's own Ao5 Gallery.Through Sept. 11. Free. -
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HPB&G: Wildlife and Honky Tonks
The walls of this popular neighborhood restaurant showcases works from three series by Juliet Whitsett.Through Sept. 17 -
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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: Blow-Up
Bing Wright's new pictures are enlargements of uncommonly tight crops from images of children at play on a seashore — an outstretched hand splashing water or carrying a beach bucket, liberal smears of sunscreen, fluorescent plastic hair clips, a foot dragging through burbling waves.Through Sept. 10 -
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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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Neill-Cochran House: The Hope Suite
Mark Smith’s The Hope Suite is a series of forty-four collages inspired by the theme of global unity. Each 24-by-18-inch work on paper consists of a background monoprint or a digital photoprint, overlaid with collage, calligraphy, and mixed media. Note: The originals are part of the permanent collection of the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago; the works on display here are limited-edition prints of those originals.Through Dec. 16. Free. -
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Pet Dick: The Found Tapes
Wait, is this even theatre? Should it be listed somewhere else? The facts are: It's a professional audio performance accessed through the internet; it's dramatically funny (or funnily dramatic); it's from theatre powerhouse Jarrott Productions. Especially because of that last thing, here is where we're pimping this Carlo Lorenzo Garcia-scripted work about how "in 1969, in rural Illinois, private investigator Labinowicz documented on micro-cassette tapes his investigations into a series of unexplained pet deaths over the course of 20 years."Available through Aug. 31. $15-18. -
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Really Small Museum: Melissa Chapman
Through her work as a metalsmith, Chapman explores the conflictual duality of American life: On one hand, continued senseless gun violence; on the other, the desire we all share for our children (young and adult) to grow up safely and carefree.Through Aug. 31. Free.3509 Banton -
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Richard Rutner: Global Inspirations
Here's an exhibition of work by native New Yorker and Austin-based artist Richard Rutner, capturing the natural and cultural influences he's encountered in his global travels.Through Sept. 18 -
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The Inheritance, Pt 1
This re-envisioning of E.M. Forster’s masterpiece Howards End – now set in 21st-century New York – asks "how much we owe those who lived and loved before us, questions the role we must play for future generations, and dares us to fearlessly hold on to the wild ride called life." Directed by Dave Steakley for Zach Theatre.Through Sept. 4. Wed.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat.-Sun., 2:30 & 7:30pm. $25 and up. -
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Tomboy Femme Art Show
Paper-folding artist Amanda Witucki of the this venue at least once.Through Sept. 30 -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Spacious
Julie Maren expands upon her use of negative space for this show, exploring boundaries and ideas of infinity, her paintings and installations heavily layered and simultaneously heavily redacted, with actual pieces of the canvas cut away. Gorgeous, yes, and unforgettable.Through Sept. 4 -
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Women & Their Work: The Future Is Behind Us
Rachel Wolfson Smith focuses our attention on the essential and grounding effect of beauty in nature, portraying constructed, intricate, and imagined landscapes, creating "an antidote to the imbalance many of us experience as we lurch from impulse to impulse in our tech-laden, consumer-driven, modern existence." Yes – an antidote to that, and a paean to the possibilities of graphite wielded by a brilliant hand and mind.Through Sept. 29