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Austin History Center: We'll Just Rock for Ourselves
Featuring selections from the Lisa Davis photograph archive, with images captured by Davis in the early 1990s, documenting the lesbian and queer music community of Austin.Reception (with live music by Gretchen Phillips): Tue., April 24, 6:30pm
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AgavePrint: Furlong
The photographer Raymond Meeks, often inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of image and text, presents a collection of works that play with memory and place and the ways in which a landscape can shape an individual.Through May 6 -
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Austin Art Garage: Whimsy & Wonder
Whimsy and wonder, indeed: If anyone can evoke those feelings in a show of new paintings, it's gonna be that Lauren Briere with her sci-fi-inflected "Robots & Rowboats" series. -
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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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Comanche Motion: The Art of Eric Tippeconnic
This exhibition is enhanced with artifacts providing historical context for the paintings, rich with the unbroken connection the Comanche people have with their roots. Also, Rodeo: The Exhibition. Boy howdy, it's the history of the Texas rodeo – vibrant, interactive, and fully documented in this fine new show.Through Jan. 2. $9-13. -
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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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Flatbed Press: Vasculum
Spencer Fidler’s practice is to collect plants from his property in Las Cruces, N.M., and draw them daily at four times their scale. Read our review right here, then see what such devoted work means for your floratropic eyes, in this new show at Flatbed.Through May 19 -
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Gallery Shoal Creek: The Pink Bow Project
Presenting a large-scale multimedia work by Karen Hawkins, displaying more than fifty nine-foot-tall fabric panels, each covered in 1000 pink hair bows, the bows representing the number of substantiated female child sexual-abuse cases reported annually to Child Protection Services agencies.Through May 12 -
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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: Black and White
The sixth show by Tom Molloy in this elegant space is an exhibition of new drawings and found photographs that explore race – the social construct central to much of the injustice and inequality in America. Bonus: Mariah Robertson in the Project Room.Through June 2 -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Self-Exploration
Artwork by Donna Starnes, Beverly Deutsch, and Kathi Herrin.Through May 2 -
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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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Wally Workman Gallery: Will Klemm
This is a solo show with the Austin-based painter who's shown nationally since 1993 and is a veteran of more than 50 one-man exhibitions. This newest phase of work focuses on the horizon and the soft transitions that occur above and below.Through April 28 -
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Yard Dog: Off the Record
St. Louis artist Kerry Smith's new series features his gouache and oilstick paintings of iconic record album art.Through May 27
