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Capital of Texas QuiltFest
Featuring more than 350 quilts, 60 vendors, demonstrations, and a boutique featuring handmade items for sale.Sept. 28-30. Fri.-Sat., 10am-6pm; Sun., noon-5pm. $10. -
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Court Lurie: Open Studio
The artist opens her studio for your viewing and experiential pleasure, debuting a new series of large abstract paintings, as well as smaller works, drawings, and photographs – all exploring the themes of homes, residency, and relocation.Sept. 28-30. Fri., noon-8pm; Sat., 6-8pm; Sun., 2-6pm4704 E. Cesar Chavez -
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Gender Unbound Fest 2018
The multidisciplinary arts festival, spotlighting works by trans and intersex creators, returns for year three, and this time it's double the fun, double the days! Featured poetry from Alok Vaid-Menon, Davy LeJones, Dee Dee Watters, and Siri Gurudev. For more on this year's fest, see our most recent coverage.Sat.-Sun., Sept., 29-30, noon-10am. $10-15.Blue Genie’s Big Top Space, 6100 Airport
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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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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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Lewis Carnegie: The Gun Show
Mass shootings. Thoughts and prayers. Hunting for sport. Lawmakers and the NRA. Social media. Hollywood. Apathy and action. Welcome to the new abnormal. Welcome to #TheGunShow, conceptual artist Chad Rea’s latest art exhibition.Sat.-Sun., Sept. 29-30, 11am-5pm -
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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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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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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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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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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
