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Terry Chastain: The Sketchbooks
The artist has spent years documenting his visions in 45 handbound sketchbooks during travels to cafes in Mexico, Havana, Paris, Berlin, Naples, and San Francisco; these drawings, collages, and little paintings are now on view within Wiggy's windows.Through Aug. 24
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Art on 5th: Alone Together
Cynda Valle creates luminous portraits using an antiquated technique of oil glazing and tempera paints, building up the surface of the canvas with more than 30 translucent layers, working at it as if she were possessed by the ghost of Hannes Bok. And the results are often astonishingly beautiful.Through June 24 -
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Atelier 1205: Thick and Thin
This show features Austin artists Carl Smith and Donna Starnes, and Starnes will be demonstrating her alcohol ink painting technique at the closing reception.Closing reception: Sat., July 7, 1-5pm -
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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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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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Refugee is Not My Name
This traveling art exhibition highlights photographic portraits, film, and stories of refugees from around the world who have resettled in Austin. Part of the Mayor's Book Club initiative? Indeed.Through Aug. 15. Free. -
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The Blanton: Australian Ancestral Modern
This new exhibition from the Kaplan & Levi Collection features contemporary painting and sculpture by Australian Aboriginal artists, curated by Pamela McClusky, curator of African and Oceanic Art at the Seattle Art Museum.Through Sept. 9 -
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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: Western Futurism
Assemblage artist Jimmy Descant, who calls himself a Severe Reconstructivist, uses parts from the golden age of American manufacturing to embody his vision of the West – its people, environment, and social/political conditions.Through July 31
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Visionary Art Workshop
Greg Pettit teaches this three-part painting class, helping each artist create a still life painting that incorporates their choice of visionary, fantasy, psychedelic, or abstract painting.June 21-July 5. Thursdays, 6-10pm. $250.Gallery Lucid, 7101 Easy Wind #3101