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.
The Dougherty Art Center's central gallery displays new paintings by the (rather brilliant) artist Emma Hadzi Antich, her mountainous landscapes serving as oblique yet highly evocative mirrors, illustrating parallels between seemingly disparate aspects of nature, revealing how the wild in the human and the human in the wild can affect each other.
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."
Laura Crehuet Berman's new exhibition here brings together her recent monotypes and collages, in which the artist has created images that layer together time, space, form, and color.
RichesArt Gallery, the only Black-owned art gallery in town, launches an interactive exhibit to amplify the work of local Black artists – featuring work by DeLoné Osby, Xavier Alvarado, Lakeem Wilson, Chris Tobar, and more.
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?