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Capital Factory: A Life with Art

Here's a happy hour to celebrate the launch of this new art-market website. “Over the past year and a half we've been recruiting and on-boarding some of Latin America's most successful contemporary artists into a single platform for buying and selling art," says co-founder Pierangela Bonatti. We'll drink to that!

Wed., Feb. 28, 4-6pm

Capital Factory
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Sugar: The Work of María Magdalena Campos-Pons

This bittersweet exhibition inaugurates a new gallery in UT's Christian-Green Gallery.

Wed., Feb. 28, 5:30pm
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Beauford H. Jester Center, 201 E. 21st
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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

CLOSING

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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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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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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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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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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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Atelier 1205: Inaugural Group Show

Ceramics, drawing, painting, and sculpture by 17 Austin artists inaugurates this new gallery. Works by Richard Ashby, Valérie Chaussonnet, Thomas Cook, Elizabeth Decker, Jennifer Hill, Soña Holman, Madeline Irvine, David Lamplugh and the rest are sure to delight and dazzle your eyes.

Through March 4

1205 E. Cesar Chavez
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Butridge Gallery: Refigured: Radical Realism

"Showcasing some of Austin’s finest realist figurative artists, across a variety of media, with their newest, most exciting work." Sounds almost humdrum, right? Just another standard gallery promo? But, listen – you know how something can be so powerful as to, how we say, fuck you up but in a good way? Well, this is one of those things. This is one of those exhibitions. At the Dougherty, yes. Because Jennifer Balkan and Dana Younger and Alejandra Almuelle and Karen Maness and Felice House and more.

Through March 10

Dougherty Arts Center
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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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Catherine Lee: The Ney Project

A retrospective of Texas artist Catherine Lee's work in diverse media will be anchored by her monumental sculpture Hebrides #6: Clach An Trushal, on loan from the Contemporary Austin.

Through May 6

Elisabet Ney Museum
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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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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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Not Gallery: Another Ground

Since meeting on Instagram more than two years ago, the artists Jack Arthur Wood and Jessica Cannon mailed works in process back and forth between Corpus Christi and Brooklyn. This show of collaborative and independent creation is the result.

Through April 7

Bolm Studios
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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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RecSpec Gallery: 18+

A look at bodies, eroticism, and sexuality from the perspective of 23 women and nonbinary artists including Abi Daniel, Joanne Leah, Inés Estrada, Annalise Gratovich, Annie Alonzi, Drew Riley, Holly Bobisuth, and more. And here's our review of the show.

Through March 10

Flatbed Press
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The Blanton: Form into Spirit

Here's a show exploring the conceptual origins of Ellsworth Kelly's last great work, the 2,715-square-foot freestanding building called Austin – a monumental structure with colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture, and 14 black-and-white stone panels in marble and granite – the opening of which coincides with this Carter E. Foster-curated exhibition.

Through April 29

The Blanton Museum of Art
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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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Umlauf Museum: Flight and Fall

The popular venue offers a rich journey through classic archetypes as interpreted through Charles Umlauf’s sculptures and drawings.

Through March 12

Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
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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: Imagined Cities

Chicago's Nate Otto is an artist whose work explores urban landscapes and architecture – mapping, gentrification, development, decay – all filtered through his own vision, expressed in stylized and simplified drawings, paintings, and murals.

Through April 1

Yard Dog

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