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Beyond Bollywood: Movers and Shakers of Austin
This fashion show features classic and contemporary Indian styles worn by women entrepreneurs, professionals, and community leaders.Sat., March 10, 11am-1pm. Free. -
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Cherry Cola Dog: Little BIG Art
Listen: All the artworks at this show are on 24” x 48” birch panels, ready to take home with you. Bonus: live painting, fire spinning, live music, dance performances, and more in their backyard chill zone.Sat., March 10, 7pm-1am. $10. -
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Laguna Gloria: Art Free For All
It's the annual family-friendly open house from the Contemporary Austin at Laguna Gloria! Enjoy hands-on demonstrations, play in a cardboard maze, catch a dance performance by Lacey Richter, and make key chain art inspired by Ryan Gander’s hanging sculptures.Sat., March 10, 11am-3pm. Free. -
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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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Jimmy LaFave: Searching for Peace Town
Celebrate the late, great singer-singwriter at the debut exhibit of his photography: This is the first time LaFave's road, travel, and music shots will be shared with the public.Through March 31 -
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SouthPop: The History of Austin Aquafest
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Wally Workman Gallery: Helmut Barnett
You know how good it is to see this exhibition gearing up for display? When they say Barnett's work features "geometric and organic forms on large canvases as well as large-scale collages incorporating found material," that only whets our visual appetite. But then, we've reported on the man before. Come see what wonders the longtime Austinite's been creating in the years between his last solo show and this new one at WWG.Through March 31 -
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Women & Their Work: Paved Paradise
Using the shopping mall and the parking lot as formal and conceptual frameworks, Julie Libersat's interactive video installation explores a suburban vernacular that presents consumption as a modern form of worship.Through April 19
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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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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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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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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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Carver Museum: Punk Noir
Behold this new series of large paintings by Dawn Okoro, exploring the black punk spirit. You already knew black is beautiful; with this exhibition, black may be even more beautiful – and punk AF. And here's what our reviewer thinks of the show.Through July 21 -
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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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Dimension Gallery: Benthos
It's no secret that this place is one of our favorite galleries ever – because we appreciate well-honed craft as much as we enjoy the heady concepts of art – and now the epicenter of sculptural brilliance and creative blacksmithery reveals new work by Austin-based Haley Woodward. This series uses the strange and adaptable creatures found in the planet's seabeds as influence for sculptural forms … and Woodward uses iron like your grandma would use crochet, if your grandma were Alberto Giacometti as coached by Guillermo Del Toro. Highly recommended, with or without scuba tanks.Through March 31 -
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Flatbed Press: Pine
The crux of Jill Wilkinson’s work is drawing: Drawing from trees, drawing from the memory of trees, drawing from the muscle memory, drawing the void, drawing from the drawing. Now witness a fine selection of those original drawings – and the monoprints created from them.Through April 27 -
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Gallery Shoal Creek: Milt Kobayashi
The distinctive figurative paintings of Milt Kobayashi people the walls of this exquisite venue at Flatbed World Headquarters.Through March 31 -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Photo/Montage 12 x 12
Talk about cool concepts being well-executed; scope this new show of photos by Rino Pizzi. Except it's not just big bold Pizzi photos: The acclaimed photographer invited 12 artists from different disciplines to create new works using at least one element from each of 12 images – with no restrictions on size or style or anything. Duuude! See what Teresa Elliott, Michael Anthony Garcia, Maya Lawrence, Catherine Lee, Emily Little, Graham Reynolds, Shawn Smith, DJ Stout, w. tucker, Peggy Weiss, Steve Wiman, and Robert Ziebell have wrought in response.Through April 1 -
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Ground Floor Gallery: Tom White
The Ground Floor Theatre space, on the other side of all that Springdale-facing goodness at Dimension Gallery and so on? The venue's lobby is decked out with new paintworks by this technique-twisting Austin artist, a smart accompaniment to the upcoming White Rabbit Red Rabbit action onstage.Through March 31 -
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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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ICOSA: Residual
In which Katy Horan and Teruko Nimura interpret the concept of hauntings, from unresolved personal and societal experiences that resonate in our present day to variations on the traditional ghosts and spirits found in superstition and folklore. Nimura's fine work is relatively new to us, but that Horan has been thrilling us with weird beauty for years now – and we can hardly wait to scope this new show.Through March 17 -
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Link & Pin: Seascapes
In which Anissa Bryant explores the intrinsic loneliness of humanity, the vastness of the oceans, and the interconnectivity of life with water.Through March 18 -
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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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Old Bakery Gallery: Earth, Divinities, and Amusements
New works by Lisa Garner, Stephanie Lowe, and Salvador Rodriguez.Through April 4 -
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Pump Project: The Moment Before a Pause
A new series of paintings by Cheryl Finfrock, these "Narrative Translations" result from the artist's experience of imagery from various media in addition to real-life encounters, both public and private.Through March 17 -
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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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Sixth Street Gallery: Ethereal
This new show, in the gallery formerly known as Camiba on Sixth, features six Austin-based artists: Clarke Curtis, Mai Gutierrez, Heather Halbert, Dominic Leon, Mayu Nagaoka, and Sylvia Troconis.Through April 1 -
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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 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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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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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