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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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Link & Pin Gallery: Slugfest

In this PrintAustin-affiliated show, Link & Pin partners with Slugfest Printmaking Workshop to present the work of Slugfest artists Shailee Thakkar, Theresa Bond, Alan Tull, Jill Thrasher, Carol Hayman, Tom Druecker and Margaret Simpson. Also on display: the annual trade portfolio, "Extreme Weather."

Through Jan. 29

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Blanton Museum of Art: MemWars

Many artists work in multiple mediums, but for Lubbock-raised Terry Allen, music, performance, writing, and visual artwork are truly all part of the same practice. As a visual artist, he often creates immersive sculptural installations with an aspect of performance, incorporated through projections and video. For this ninth installment in the Blanton’s Contemporary Project series, Allen reveals a three-channel video installation and a related group of drawings.

Through July 10
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The Blanton Museum of Art
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Butridge Gallery: The Art of Peace

Paintings and drawings by five award-winning Austin figurative artists: J.C. Amorrortu, Lawrence Jolly, Meena Matocha, Rhea Pettit, and Linda Wandt.

Through Jan. 8
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Dougherty Arts Center
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Camiba Gallery: The Square House Project

Every year, the Square House Project offers a nine-month residency for Austin-based Black visual artists working in any visual media. Camiba Gallery presents an exhibition of work from the current resident, Evelyn Ngugi, who is midway through her residency. Bonus: Works by three finalists from the 2021 selection: Arielle Austin, Clifford Bunn, and Lakeem Wilson.

Through Jan. 15
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Camiba Gallery
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Canvas: Hell Year

The pandemic-weary artists in this new group exhibition – Nate Szarmach, Sandra Boskamp, Padaric Kolander, Yamin Li, Arlo Neill, Andrew Smenos, Shayne Murphy, and more – take the year 2021 to task by implementing images of burning cars, facemasks, nightmare skeletons, cherubs, and nuclear explosions into their work.

Through Jan. 8

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Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams

The Contemporary Austin presents the first-ever museum survey of works by Daniel Johnston. "Step into the surreal universe of this visionary musician and artist, filled with love, loss, ghosts, aliens, superheroes, and the eternal battle between good and evil."

Through March 20

The Contemporary Austin
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Davis Gallery: Together Again

Here's an extensive – and highly recommended – group exhibition that showcases the depth of work by 34 Texas-based Davis Gallery artists, celebrating the present and the historical feel of our everchanging state. Randall Reid. Denise M. Fulton. Dana Younger. Jan Heaton. Faustinus Deraet. Caprice Pierucci. Steve Brudniak. Lisa Beaman. B. Shawn Cox. And however many more, too, which a little math will reveal – but not as gloriously as seeing the art in person.

Through Jan. 8

Davis Gallery
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Elisabet Ney Museum: Ongoings

Marie Elena Ely’s show at the Ney Museum is a collection of photo/collage/paintings and prints.

Through Jan. 9

Elisabet Ney Museum
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Ivester Contemporary: Wildflowers

Approaching this series as painted stills from a fictional movie, Tom Jean Webb has created works that revolve around three main components: people, place, and performance.

Through Jan. 22

Ivester Contemporary
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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

Laguna Gloria Amphitheater
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Tom Molloy & Noriko Ambe

The main gallery displays "Eagle," an exhibition of new drawings and photographs by Tom Molloy – the artist’s seventh presentation at this elegant Downtown venue.

Through Feb. 19

Lora Reynolds Gallery
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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.

Martha's Contemporary
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Mexic-Arte Museum: MX 21 – Resistance, Reaffirmation, and Resilience

Throughout 2021, Mexico is commemorating major events in history: the falling of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán, the invasion by Spain, and the Independence of Mexico. Mexic-Arte Museum presents this vibrant group exhibition and programs in conjunction with Mexico’s 2021 events, reaffirming their common cultural history. Also: "Los Pueblos Originarios," featuring photos of continuing traditions by Mary J. Andrade; and Las Flores – La Vida, a new show displaying flower-themed art from more than 200 local and regional artists.

Through Feb. 27. $7.
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Mexic-Arte Museum
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The Blanton: Without Limits: Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), a key figure in the development of color-field painting, was a tireless experimenter with color, form, and technique. This exhibition celebrates the generous gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation of ten prints and six proofs that span five decades of the artist’s career.

Through Feb. 20

The Blanton Museum of Art
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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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Umlauf Sculpture Garden

The Umlauf's famed Garden features expertly wrought sculptures, the bronze or stone cynosures from Charles Umlauf and others anchoring sight among the bright foliage and tree-towered paths.

Tue.-Fri., 10am-4pm; Sat.-Sun., 11am-4pm

Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
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UT Idea Lab: The Way Back Home

On display: Four distinct bodies of work that Austin-based video and mixed-media artist Ariel René Jackson has produced over the past five years.

Through March 22

210 W. 24th
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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.

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Wyld Gallery

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