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Your Playable City: Shadowing

Here's a fun new Downtown installation, created by Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier, in which streetlights play back the shadows of those who pass beneath them. No, for real. As a citizen walks under the lights, "the shadow of a previous visitor will walk, hop, or dance beside them, and then their own movements will be captured and displayed to the next passerby." And here's a map of locations.

Through March 18

ONGOING

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AARC: Beyond Bollywood

"Indian-Americans Shape the Nation," a traveling exhibition created by the Smithsonian Institution, makes an artifact-rich stop at the Asian American Resource Center – with a vibrant collection of photographs, art, and interactive learning stations.

Through April 8

Asian American Resource Center
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Art on 5th: Kenneth Tom Olsen

The Danish artist returns to Austin with his collection of spray paints, acrylics, and stencils, rendering new batches of works on the spot.

Through Feb. 25

Ao5 Gallery
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Art.Science.Gallery.: SOLAR

The PrintAustin wonderments continue at this excellent venue, featuring prints about the sun or made by our sun (as in solar printmaking, cyanotyping, or printing with photosensitive inks) or for the sun (concerning sun- or star-related cultural and natural history). And, note, this Saturday is the last day before the gallery leaves Canopy forever.

Through Feb. 24

Art.Science.Gallery.
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Austin Central Library: Portraits of the People Who Shape Our City

That magnificent new library Downtown hosts this portion of FotoATX, displaying George Brainard's photos of musicians, artists, journalists, and other icons that make Austin unique.

Through Feb. 18

Central Library
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Big Medium: For When the Leaves Grow Cold, but I Still Require Your Shoulder

This suite of paintings by Ricardo Vicente Ruiz is rooted in the history and folklore of harvesting seasons in the Southwest. Curated by Jeffrey Dell, it's the gallery's first exhibition of 2018.

Through Feb. 17

Big Medium
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Carver Museum: Juntos/Together

This section of the comprehensive FotoATX program features vivid photo-documentation of "Black and Brown Activism in Austin from 1970 to 1983."

Through April 11

George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
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Carver Museum: State of Ascension

Mixed-media vessel works by Rejina Thomas, featuring art she created during the past two decades, with themes positioning the womb as a metaphorical looking glass from which viewers experience and understand the world.

Through Feb. 28

George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
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Elgin Arts Association: Valentine’s Art Show

Out there to the northeast, the city of Elgin's flashing some local visuals in honor of the week of romance.

Feb. 8-14. Thu., noon-8pm; Fri.-Wed., noon-6pm

115 N. Main, Elgin
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Harry Ransom Center: Vaudeville!

This exhibition reveals the story of where American entertainment all began, featuring photographs, manuscripts, and other documents and artifacts related to Harry Houdini, Mae West, W.C. Fields, Bert Williams, George M. Cohan, Burns & Allen, Tony Pastor, the Nicholas Brothers, Barbette, and others. Step right up, citizen, as our own Robert Faires tells you more about it right here!

Through July 15. Free.

Harry Ransom Center
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Ellsworth Kelly: Prints

The late artist's Austin edifice will soon be unveiled at the Blanton – whose own Kelly exhibition is another gorgeous thing indeed – and here this elegant Downtown gallery presents an exhibition of lithographs he made between 1966 and 2012.

Through March 31

Lora Reynolds Gallery
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MACC: Su-Realidad

Here's an exploration of surreal photography and installation art, another part of the city's FotoATX project, curated by members of Caminos, the Mexican American Cultural Center's teen leadership program.

Through March 3

Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center
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Mexic-Arte Museum: Fotografía y Nuevos Medios

Amassed over the last 35 years, the museum’s newest exhibition explores the plurality of resistance, highlighting varied lineages of Latinx and Latin-American resistance. Here's our full review of the show. Bonus: The concurrent "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta" exhibition features the work of 30 printmakers.

Through May 27. $10.

Mexic-Arte Museum
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Mondo: Eyes Without a Face 2

Jason Edmiston returns with a huge collection of original art, showcasing 100 new acrylic paintings and preliminary pencils of iconic pop-culture eyes from movies, TV, comics, games, and more.

Through Feb. 17

Mondo Gallery
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Old Bakery Gallery: Through Our Eyes

Here's an exhibition from Sun City's Special Interest Group of the Visual Arts.

Through Feb. 28

Old Bakery & Emporium
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Pong to Pokémon: The Evolution of Electronic Gaming

This immersive and interactive exhibit at the Texas State History Museum explores the past and future of electronic gaming through the player's experience – with dozens of rare artifacts, brought together for the first time from extensive collections across the globe.

Through March 18. $9-13.
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Bullock Texas State History Museum
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Seeing Beyond What Is Real

New works by Lawrence Jolly, Daniel Davis, and Iain Neberman, who are "pushing the envelopes of realism to explore and connect the worlds of observable reality with the deeper realities of the imagination."

Through Feb. 28

Imagine Art
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Slugfest: Misremembrance

Whether making intaglio plates with construction supplies or using prints as building materials in sculptural forms, the works of Silas Breaux are inspired by his observation of the relationship between natural and built environments. This part of PrintAustin is a perfect show for Slugfest, we reckon, the venue itself a lovely relationship between natural and built environment. Bonus: Cats, live ones, in the gallery.

Through Feb. 17

Slugfest Gallery
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SouthPop: 40 Years of Esther's Follies

Four decades of the funniest topical sketches in the whole blamed city? That's exactly what Shannon Sedwick and Michael Shelton and their talented crowd of friends have brought to Esther's Follies, and now the history of those Follies – posters, prints, original artworks, doc-u-men-ta-tion of all kinds – are on display in this bastion of local goodness.

Through Feb. 28

South Austin Museum of Popular Culture
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Susanna Dickinson Museum: Historic Downtown

This segment of the FotoATX initiative features historical photographic images of Austin’s famous landmarks.

Through Feb. 18

411 E. FIfth
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The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

This place, ah, it's one of our favorite places in the entire city; and of course they're properly corona-closed. But check 'em out online right now – it's a rich, wonder-filled website – to whet your appetite for when things get back to … uh … are we still calling it "normal," these days?
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Wally Workman Gallery: Malcolm Bucknall

A chameleon-like eclecticism has characterized his work to various distinct periods of art-historical influences and beyond, but the common thread in Bucknall's imagery is an animal-human mix. It's a vivid personal mythology that we've reveled in before and are excited to see the newest manifestations of here.

Through March 3

Wally Workman Gallery
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Women & Their Work: No Trace of Now Will Remain

Inspired by the writings of Rimbaud and Victorian mourning attire, Gail Chovan "gives exaggerated form to the long deceased by adorning apparitions in hyper-stylized garments and accessories from the past, using fragments and fabrication to enshroud memories, give form to absence, and celebrate remnants as potent vehicles for resuscitation." We excitedly await the opening of this new show of work from the queen of Blackmail.

Through March 1

Women & Their Work
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Yard Dog: Small, Smaller, Smallest

In which Austin artist Deborah Mersky is joined by her Seattle compadres Julie Paschkis and Joe Max Emminger for a show of small paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture.

Through Feb. 18

Yard Dog

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