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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

George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
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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.

Bullock Texas State History Museum
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Davis Gallery: Of Warp and Weft

The elegant carved wood sculptures of Caprice Pierucci. The photographs of delicate cheesecloth drapings by Charles Heppner. Together they make for a compelling dialog of harmony, form, and composition – complicating the walls of this excellent gallery. (See our full review right here.) Recommendation: See the art, then grab some great food at the Soup Peddler location just a few blocks away.

Through July 21

Davis Gallery
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Elisabet Ney Museum: Meet Her Hands

Produced by #bbatx and the Ney Museum every summer, this is a collaborative exhibition series featuring three Texan women artists. The 2018 season's opener is a show by animator and illustrator Alie Jackson.

Reception: Thu., June 28, 6:30-8pm

Elisabet Ney Museum
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Flatbed Press: New Editions 2017-2018

Etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, monotypes, and monoprints published over the last year, by Richard Amendariz, Taiko Chandler, Michael Ray Charles, Suzi Davidoff, Annalise Gratovich, Tom Huck, Gareth Maguire, Winston Mascarenhas, Bob Schneider, Howard Sherman, Jill Wilkinson, Danny Williams, and Joan Winter.

Through Aug. 25

Flatbed Press
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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: Xavier Schipani

Here's a striking exhibition of murals, paintings on canvas, and a sculptural installation masquerading as a public bathroom – all by that acclaimed Schipani, voted Austin's Best Muralist in 2016. This new show is, we're told, "largely a reckoning with masculinity. What is manliness? What has it meant in the past, what does it mean now, and what are its shortcomings?" Could be our review provides a few answers.

Through Sept. 1

Lora Reynolds Gallery
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Mexic-Arte Museum: Young Latinx Artists 23

Now in its 23rd year, the annual exhibition continues to shed a spotlight on talented Latinx artists across the U.S. This latest iteration, "Beyond Walls, Between Gates, Under Bridges," curated by Rocha-Rochelli, is inspired by the significant social changes that have taken place along the U.S.–Mexico border over the last 20 years. And here's our review of the show.

Through Aug. 24

Mexic-Arte Museum
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Old Bakery Gallery: Hot Town

Two-dimensional art, three-dimensional art, a veritable hot town of art in one venerable building.

Through Aug. 1

Old Bakery & Emporium
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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.

Central Library
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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

Wiggy's
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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

The Blanton Museum of Art
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The Blanton: The Distance I Can Be From My Son

In 2013, Lenka Clayton attempted to objectively measure the furthest distance she could be from her toddler son in three environments: a city park, the alley behind their Pittsburgh home, and in the aisles of a local supermarket. The trio of videos humorously underlines the challenging judgment calls that parents make about how much autonomy to give their children. (For more, see Marisa Charpentier's review right here.)

Through Sept. 2
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The Blanton Museum of Art
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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

The Contemporary Austin
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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: Diana Greenberg

This is the Workman Gallery's fourth solo show with the local painter – whose current body of work is influenced by Japanese calligraphy and kimonos, antique book covers, and music.

Through July 28

Wally Workman Gallery
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Women & Their Work: The Lure

Margaux Crump debuts a body of work that explores gender and the natural world through the lens of power relationships, her sculptures, drawings, and photographs tracing the complex movements of power between entities. And the Chronicle's Melany Jean has an excellent review of the show right here.

Artist talk: Sat., July 14, 11:30am. Exhibition through July 26

Women & Their Work
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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

Yard Dog

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