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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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Cloud Tree: If These Walls Could Talk
Ah, this, citizen: This here is a seven-artist exhibition – featuring Tim Kerr, Niz, Jeremy Burks, Gayla Partridge, Kenneth Holland, Jeff Wheeler, and Win Wallace – curated by Rachel Koper and the abovenamed Wallace, that attempts to reincarnate those "punk creepy shows" (cf., "Hallowed Ground") that used to palpitate the creative hearts at Gallery Lombardi back in the day. You remember those glory years, right? And here, now, each artist brings their voice and style to plaster the Cloud Tree gallery walls with a diversity of figurative pieces. Bonus: Robert Faires reviews the show here.Through Aug. 29 -
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Prizer Arts & Letters: A Specialization in Abstract Speed Painting
That is precisely what Austin's Carl Smith specializes in, yes, and here are the most recent abstract fruits of his painterly labors – displayed inside this intimate gallery on E. Cesar Chavez, but also, much of the work, viewable through the venue's big front windows (illuminated each night from 8:30-11:30pm).Through Aug. 29 -
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Austin: Midsummer Art Show
Featuring art by Peter Max, Ron Wood, and other international, national, and local artists.Through Aug. 29. Donations accepted.1638 E. Second #326 -
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Yard Dog: Camera-less Photography
Maine artist Michelle Hauser uses photochemistry in lieu of traditional pigments, painting with historic light-sensitive materials such as cyanotype directly onto rag paper in a darkened room. Once completely dry, the painted surface is exposed to sunlight; in a cool bath of water, the exposure is fixed and her marks turn blue.Through Aug. 29
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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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Artworks Gallery: Touch the Seen
Provocative, monumental figurative paintings by Les Satinover, depicting the human form (mainly male figures) in vast, detailed landscapes that celebrate natural beauty.Through Sept. 25 -
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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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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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GrayDUCK Gallery: Time Being
Welcome back to Jill Schroeder's powerhouse of an art gallery on the Eastside! Following a brief summer hiatus, the 'Duck returns to present a new exhibition by photographer Elizabeth Chiles: A body of photographs and photographic collages the artist made during the Covid pandemic. This show, she says, "can be seen as a walk, slow and meandering, through a series of repeated forms that came in and out of view on my walks and do the same in the exhibition."Through Oct. 3 -
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ICOSA: A Sharp Softness
This exhibition features new bodies of work by Mai Gutierrez and Suzanne Wyss, with both artists "exploring the reuse of materials in a nontraditional way, piercing the space to create movement and shadow through their use of dimensionality."Through Sept. 11 -
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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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Lydia Street Gallery: Zero to Sixty
"Are you prepared to scratch your head in wonderment?" this gallery asks. "Step right up into Steven Bernard Jones' world of radical acceptance and storytelling. 'Zero to Sixty' might feel fast – but as a 60-year-old artist, Jones is just warming up. It’s a journey of rage, turned on its head."Through Sept. 16 -
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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: 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 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?
