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Landmarks: Self-Guided Walking Tour
Use your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program any time you feel like it. BONUS: There's also a free, docent-led tour starting at Marc Quinn's "Spiral of the Galaxy" (1501 Red River) on Sun., Jan. 8, 11am. -
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Texas Cultural Trust: Golden Ticket to Awards Gala
A single golden ticket lies within a Texas Cultural Trust Art Box and grants entry for two to the arts event of the year: The 2021 Texas Medal of Arts Awards. Purchase an Art Box by July 31 for a chance to win that golden ticket (which gives access to the TMA reception, awards show, and dinner in October; they say it's a $3000 value).Through July 31. $100.
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Art for the People Gallery: Thrive!
Here's a showcase of work by more than 40 Austinites who’ve created art with an exuberance of color and energy over the past 15 pandemic months.Through Sept. 30 -
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ArtUs Co. Gallery: Kent Burress
Kent Burress uses oils to capture the big skies and broad vistas of Texas in a style that often pushes the boundaries between representational and abstract art.Closing reception: Sat, July 24, 5:30-6:30pm10000 Research #118 -
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Behind the Scenes: Hollywood's Sistine Chapel
Following the sold-out exhibition of Texas Performing Arts' collection of mid-century MGM film backdrops this spring, TPA now presents Behind the Scenes: Hollywood's Sistine Chapel, featuring 18 enormous backdrops from the Art Directors Guild Backdrop Recovery Project that form a nearly complete replica of the Sistine Chapel. See these master illusions in an immersive space designed for personal contemplation and up-close examinationThrough Aug. 1. Thu.-Fri., 2:30-5:30pm; Sat.-Sun., 10:30am-4:30pm. $10-20. -
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Beyond Van Gogh
This traveling spectacle of art, a multimedia exhibition currently ensconced at the COTA, uses cutting-edge projection technology to create an engaging journey into the world of Vincent Van Gogh. Repurposing the artist's dreams, his thoughts, and his words to drive the experience as a narrative, this huge installation will move you along projection-swathed walls wrapped in light, colour, and shapes that swirl, dance and refocus into flowers, cafes and landscapes. As a certain Dude might comment, "This is extremely fuckin' trippy, man." Make your reservations now, citizen, and if the price seems a bit steep, hell, you can probably tap your brother Theo for a loaner, amirite?Through Sept. 5. Daily, 11am-9pm. $37 ($24, children). -
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Big Medium: Markers
Witness here the individual and collaborative work of Kel Brown, Russell Brxwn, and Emily Eisenhart, who explore the rhythmic language of lines, color, and minimal paint strokes, leaving their marks across the city, working on the sides of buildings, the surfaces of everyday functional objects, textiles, and more.Through Aug. 28 -
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Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used photography to popularize the political slogan "Black Is Beautiful." This exhibition, the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career, reveals the story of this key figure of the second Harlem Renaissance – and the Chronicle's Robert Faires has a review of the show right here.Through Sept. 19 -
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DAC: Luminous Mo:ments and River Story
In these new exhibitions at the Dougherty Arts Center, Sarah Luna's "Luminous Mo:ments" explores the inner life of ordinary materials as revealed through the photographic process and Michelle Gardella's "River Story" is an ongoing portrait series of women that spans twelve years and multiple rivers across the United States.Through Aug. 28. Mon.-Fri., 11am-5pm; Sat., 11am-3pm -
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Flatbed Press: The Way Back Show
Flatbed's first 15 years (1990-2005) were awash with experimentation and risk. These attributes, along with Flatbed's ability to produce pristine impressions, became hallmarks of the place. Now here's an exhibition of works curated from that heady time, featuring prints by Terry Allen, Michael Ray Charles, Melissa Miller, Kelly Fearing, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Jack Hanley, Sandria Hu, Luis Jimenez, James Surls, and more.Through Aug. 21. Wed.-Fri., 10am-5pm -
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Ivester Contemporary: Through a Hinge Made Oblique
This new show of collaborative work by Big Chicken & Baby Bird explores ideas of blurred boundaries and futility of containment by depicting the grotesque as the embodiment of conflict between art and nature. "Patterns become the spells that open fictive portals through which the grotesque is observed, confined to, and defined against the beauty of an imagined world – where there exists a place in which they can be works of nature, works of art, or both at the same time."Through Aug. 7 -
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Laguna Gloria
This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.Thu.-Fri., 9am-noon; Sat.-Sun., 9am-3pm -
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Link & Pin Gallery: Listening to Stillness
New and recent works by Austin-based abstract artist Greta Olivas.Through July 24 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Hypocrisies, Accommodations, and Polite Twaddle
Colby Bird returns to Austin as artist-in-residence at this excellent Downtown gallery, to create an exhibition of new works that will be his sixth solo project here.Through Sept. 11 -
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MACC: Colores de Mi Alma
The Mexican American Cultural Center presents this: vibrant new show of works from Austin native Amado Castillo III.Through Sept. 4 -
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Martha's Contemporary: Hokey Pokey + What You See Is What You Get
Here's a two-person exhibition that features painting, installation, videography, and sculpture by Moll Brau and Wes Thompson. It's a deep dive into a pool of loneliness, triumph, and rebirth. It's a forest of mazes where fireflies provide the light. It's a show of creations from a pair of terrific, hardworking local artists and you don't want to miss it. -
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Neill-Cochran House: The Struggle and the Glory
Cornelius Carter’s paintings capture the struggle and glory of African-Americans along with the artist’s faith in the dream of equality and opportunity for all – including portraits of Muhammed Ali, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.Through Sept. 5 -
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Northern-Southern: Baton
This is a group show by relay, begun in July of 2020 as a method of socially distancing a community in the height of the pandemic: Artists took turns alone in the space, each adding to the exhibition. Now, as it nears its close, the exhibition resembles a community in which work converses and overlaps. With Adreon Henry, Vy Ngo, Dawn Okoro, Leon Alesi, Matt Steinke, Sev Coursen, Stella Alesi, and more.Closing reception: Sat., July 24, 3-9pm -
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Recspec Gallery: If You Stay In a Place Like This
Alluringly weird new photographic works by Rosalie Anderson supercharge the wonderground that is this ongoing online gallery.Through Aug. 31 -
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The Blanton: From the Collection of Jack Shear
In 1999, the photographer and art collector Jack Shear co-organized an exhibition at New York’s Drawing Center: "Drawn from Artist’s Collections." This new show at the Blanton is curated by Shear "in an exploratory, free-flowing manner in which the forms, compositions and colors on the sheets respond to one another in a playful, non-traditional hang."Through Aug. 22 -
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The Blanton: Sedrick Huckaby
Texas-based artist Sedrick Huckaby explores psychology, community, and the human condition in his powerful portraits painted from life. The catalog notes say: "Through his virtuoso facility with oil paint, Huckaby utilizes texture, dimensionality, and intensely saturated colors to extraordinary expressive effect." Says the artist himself: "The African-American family and its heritage has been the content of my work for several years. In large-scale portraits of family and friends I try to aggrandize ordinary people by painting them on a monumental scale."Through Dec. 5 -
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The Bullock Museum: Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow
This powerful show, a traveling exhibition organized by the New-York Historical Society, explores the transformative years after the Civil War and the rise of Jim Crow, centering on stories of African Americans who pursued the ideals of Reconstruction and persevered in the face of a developing legal system promoting racial inequality.Through Nov. 28 -
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The Contemporary Austin: "I'm" and "Bible Eye"
Austin-born and internationally acclaimed, Deborah Roberts critiques notions of beauty, the body, race, and identity in contemporary society through the lens of Black children. (Her first solo museum presentation in Texas, "I'm," is part of The Contemporary Austin's participation in the Feminist Art Coalition – a nationwide initiative of art institutions to generate awareness of feminist thought, experience, and action through exhibitions and events.) Norway's Torbjørn Rødland works with analog technology and readymade spaces to create photographs that render the everyday uncanny. His images blend the cool, seductive aestheticism of commercial and fashion photography with the layered complexity of a conceptual practice, resulting in ambivalent perspectives that both attract and repulse.Through Aug. 15 -
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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: Moments
And here's a two-person show with painters Lindsy Halleckson and Revi Meicler, featuring Halleckson's ethereal colorscapes and Meicler’s vibrant explorations of layered elements, netting, and botanical forms that obscure and reveal dynamic intricacies.Through July 31 -
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Wyld Gallery
This is Ray Donley's gallery of art by Native Americans, located in that company of artistic glory called Canopy and resplendent with creations from the original people of our struggling country.Call for appointment
