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Wiggy's Gallery: Spin
Here's a gallery-in-a-liquor-store, featuring art by that B. Shawn Cox, who's interested in "narratives, humor, cliché, irony, color texture, layered meanings, and shiny things" and expresses it with vintage photos, paint, plaster, clay, and other stuff he finds around the house or sources from the internets. Bonus: A lot of this stuff looks real good by the time he's put it on a wall.Reception: Wed., March 7, 5-7pm -
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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
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The Contemporary Austin: Against a Civic Death
Rodney McMillian's social critique of American histories, injustices, and structures of power explores the changing symbol of the White House and the concept of civic death.Through Aug. 26
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Davis Gallery: The Relationship of Things
That excellent gallery on 12th Street features a new show of works by Faustinus Deraet, Ginger Geyer, and Barbara Pence, an arrangement of photographs, paintings, and sculpture that explores the often overlooked language of the ordinary – with extraordinary results.Through April 14 -
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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. -
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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 -
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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 -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Earth, Divinities, and Amusements
New works by Lisa Garner, Stephanie Lowe, and Salvador Rodriguez.Through April 4 -
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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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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 -
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Salvador Dali: The Argillet Collection
The Russell Collection presents this renowned collection of the mad genius's work, offering a rare opportunity to meet Madame Christine Argillet, daughter of Dali's publisher and confidante Pierre Argillet.Through March 24. Free, but RSVP.1009 W. Sixth -
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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 -
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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 -
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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
