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Austin Museum Day
The 21st annual Austin Museum Day is a free citywide celebration of art, culture, history, music, nature, and science, with more than 40 museums in the greater Austin area welcoming visitors with special programming, guided tours, hands-on activities, and more. The Blanton. The Harry Ransom Center. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Bullock Texas State History Museum. Elisabet Ney Museum. And – oh, the list goes on, citizen! See the website for details and plan yourself a daylong adventure of knowledge and delight.Sun., Sept. 23. Free. -
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Denise Prince: Privy
Privy? Privy to the details of this especially art-sodden event, citizen. Privy to a live performance by that Denise Prince – she'll be revealing a fuzzy riff on Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 Fountain – in the midst of a cocktail-fueled party celebrating Prince's bold photography and objects (and a new large painting) within the retail wunderkammer of Blackfeather Vintage Works. Ah, this city … this city is totally flush with creativity.Sun., Sept. 23, 7-10pm. Note: Performance at 8pm. Free. -
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Facing Racism: Art & Action Symposium
Here's a daylong symposium with artists, curators, and scholars discussing the role of the arts in addressing racism – with a keynote by Aruna D’Souza. Note: We're posting this early, so you can register now.Thu., Sept. 27, 9am-8pm. Free. -
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Public Art and Popsicles!
Landmarks is celebrating Austin Museum Day by providing 30-minute tours of the works along the newly completed Speedway Mall. Meet your docent and grab a free popsicle from Steel City Pops on the east side of the Perry-Castañeda Library.Sun., Sept. 23, noon-2pm. Free.
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Georgetown Art Center: Strata
Here we go again, right? Recommending something beyond the city limits? We know, we know: There's already too much to cover properly and we should stick to Austin. But, damnit, this work by Anita Cooke, tell you what, it's so worth the drive to see it. Layers upon layers, textures upon textures, patterns and colors like these big and striking fabric-based pieces just grew, like some especially baroque form of coral. But you know the woman's spent hours and hours and hours, days on end, on each one. So, maybe make a day of it? See this show, check out the surrounding antique shops and all, get you a fine lunch or dinner in one of G-Town's decent eateries? Yes.Through Sept. 23
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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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Generative Art Project: Synthetic Aesthetic
The show's title refers to the computer-driven process that "stretches the visionary potential of its human co-creators and viewers alike with its alien sensibilities." On display here, in mindwarping irreality: a selection of videos, digital prints, and video slideshows by Simon Russell, David Bennett, James Pricer, and Sean Capone. Recommended.Through Sept. 301621 E. Sixth #1107 -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Serene Disturbance
Listen: "Scattered along the shores of a growing lake, small volcanic rocks disintegrate from endless fractures. Left behind in the wake of a glacier’s now constant recession, these scarred tokens from the mountain show an array of colorful shards between their dark crevices." And this new exhibition by Dameon Lester is the exploration of one such rock, transmediated via modest materials and repetitive minimal shapes, abstractly focusing on our cause and effect with nature.Through Oct. 28 -
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Guzu Gallery: Boston Hardcore
That's Boston Terriers, to be specific, as Guzu presents a Terrier Cvlt exhibition of pop-culture creativity celebrating the renowned black-and-white breed, featuring work by artists from all over the country.Through Sept. 30 -
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Harry Ransom Center: Archaeology and Romance
Ed Ruscha, anyone? We'll bet yes – we're big fans ourselves – and now here's a diverse selection of the celebrated American artist’s books, photographs, drawings, and pprints. With archival production materials, preliminary sketches, and studio notebooks; with more than 150 objects providing visitors an unprecedented look into Ruscha's creative process. And the Chronicle's Melany Jean tells more about this show right here.Through Jan. 6 -
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Link & Pin Gallery: Heroines + Warriors + Goddesses
In this new show, three Austin-based painters – Neena Buxani, Helen Buck, and Rhea Pettit – vividly express their impressions of ordinary (and extraordinary) courageous womanhood.Through Sept. 30 -
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SouthPop: 14th Anniversary Exhibition
Almost a decade and a half of SouthPop already? Yes, and now the venue that celebrates all the long strange years of live-music Austin that have gone before, now that bastion of funky cultural puissance on South Lamar brings an eclectic show of works from the permanent collection to their storied walls.Through Sept. 29. $5. -
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Taking it to the Streets: A Visual History of Protest and Demonstration in Austin
The Austin History Center's latest exhibit spotlights local efforts to create social change over the decades, including the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation movements. Residents are invited to upload personal photos of recent marches and rallies for inclusion.Through Oct. 28. Free. -
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testsite: Self Storage
Fluent~Collaborative and testsite present a collaboration with writer Rebecca Bengal and visual artist Dave Bryant, in which Bengal will present short fiction, inspired by two devastating house fires on her family’s farm, and the ways in which land forgets and remembers, and Bryant will show images reclaimed and upcycled from his storage lockers in Brooklyn and Austin.Through Oct. 28. Free. -
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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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The UMLAUF Prize Exhibition: Slippery Clump
Prize juror Sedrick Huckaby has selected French Canadian sculptor Shanie Tomassini as this year's winner, and so the artist receives a full exhibition of her work, featuring oversized sculptures, fountains, and negative-space forms installed throughout the Umlauf’s six-acre site. And what does the Chronicle's Melany Jean have to say about this?Through Nov. 4