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    Hill Country Galleria: Spring Art Walk

    Listen to live jazz in the Galleria's central plaza while enjoying self-guided tours of various galleries, sculptures, and murals.
    Fri., April 8, 4-8pm
    Hill Country Galleria

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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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    The Plastic Bag Store

    Texas Performing Arts presents this local installation – at the Blue Genie space on Airport, no less – of Robin Frohardt's brilliant and immersive tribute to the vulgar overdoity of plastic waste that humans are subjecting themselves and the rest of our planet to. Listen: "Visit a grocery store where the shelves are stocked with thousands of original, hand-sculpted items — produce and meat, dry goods and toiletries, cakes and sushi rolls — all made from discarded, single-use plastics in an endless cacophony of packaging. When you visit, the store transforms into a cinema for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic, sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations." Sensationally graphic yet more than just spectacle, this thing's got philosophical teeth as sharp as the fangs we're sinking deep into our own carotid. (Note: Some seatings will be free, via Fusebox Festival.)
    Through April 17. Sat., 11am, 1pm, 6pm, 8pm; Sun., 11am, 1pm, 4pm; Wed.-Fri., 4pm, 6pm, 8pm. $15-25.  
    Details & Tickets Here
    Blue Genie Art Bazaar
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    Big Medium: A Cloud Floats In / A Ship Passes By

    Says the artist W. Tucker: "This show continues a through-line in my work – a conscious effort to pay attention to how I go through life, how I see the world around me, and what is happening in that world. This show represents this effort to see."
    Through April 9. Thu.-Sat., noon-6pm  
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    Big Medium

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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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    Carver Museum: Peace to the Queen

    The photographer, humanitarian, and educator Jamel Shabazz presents a career retrospective spanning four decades of work, featuring candid portraits of women of color – as curated by Ja’nell Ajani. "At a moment when Black and Brown women are more visibly leading the charge around movements for racial and economic justice, this exhibition has materialized and aligned at a critical moment in American history and Shabazz’s career."
    Through Sept. 17
    George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center

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    Cloud Tree Gallery: Dreams Carry Water

    Recent figurative paintings by Lee Barber bring a flood of rhythmic shapes and harmonious colors at once narratively intriguing and soothing, turning the walls of this Eastside powerhouse of art into a multipartite work of oblique storytelling.
    Through April 10  
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    Cloud Tree

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    Davis Gallery: In the Wake of the Exodus

    A new show of major works that legendary sculptor Steve Brudniak has completed over the past decade or so? Eerily gorgeous pieces of Industrial Age machinery and furniture and objects that are like something out of a Guillermo Del Toro fever dream, creations that "aim to share glimpses of experiences we aren't aware of through ordinary channels – into realms influenced by science, dreams, meditation, hypnosis, therapy, psychedelics, music, the subconscious, and spirituality," as the gallery says? Good thing this exhibition is up during SXSW. Because, when you want to impress any in-from-out-of-town friends with the level of talent in Austin, Brudniak's stuff is at least some of what you want them to see. Which also means, we're sure you've inferred, it's what you shouldn't miss, either.
    Through April 16
    Davis Gallery

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    Flatbed Press: The Love and Money Show

    In this new exhibition of monoprints created at Flatbed during the pandemic, Texas-based artist Maricela Sanchez breaks down barriers between art and daily life, using the iconic imagery of a $100 bill and repeating patterns of lips in multilayered monoprints to create her own currency.
    Through April 9
    Flatbed Press

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    ICOSA: Silent Language

    "My work for the past thirty-five years," says the artist Sono Osato, "has been inspired by the confluence of geological and anthropological history, the connection between terrain and symbolic thought." Now her Silent Language #13 is on display in the Window Dressing series at ICOSA. "It's a good point of entry for anyone who is unfamiliar with my work," says Osato – and it's viewable 24/7 within the Canopy courtyard.
    Through April 11
    ICOSA

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    Ivester Contemporary: El Otro Ojo

    This is an exhibition of new work by San Antonio-based artist Cruz Ortiz, who uses long-established modes (for instance, portraiture) to institutionalize Tejano culture that has largely been marginalized in art history as well as in American history.
    Through April 15
    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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    Link & Pin Gallery: Woman As Object

    Robyn Jamison’s multimedia installation comes from her lifelong inquiry into the nature of being human. "The context of objectification sets the stage for inhumanity,” says the artist, whose work speaks to “a mythology of woman’s transformation from marginalization to personhood."
    Through April 30
    Link & Pin

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    Lora Reynolds Gallery: Nature Cult (early freeze, late sleet)

    This excellent Downtown gallery features an exhibition of resin and extruded paintings by Donald Moffett.
    Through April 23
    Lora Reynolds Gallery

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    Lydia Street Gallery: Elemental Mind

    Austin-based artists Jacqueline May and Jana Swec seek connection to something deeper, May using outright symbols, mathematics, and language, while Swec uses landscapes as the symbols themselves. May plays with materials: oil, encaustic, collage, and more recently mosaic; Swec uses acrylic like the master painter she is, creating vistas of provocative significance.
    Through April 15
    Lydia Street 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

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    Northern-Southern: Fitting

    Artists Rachael Starbuck, Michael Muelhaupt, and Jesse Cline live in a house in one of north Austin's less noticed neighborhoods. Professionally, Starbuck and Muelhaupt are sculptors, materials experts, and educators; Cline practices and teaches design. Their new work for this show engages with life – serving growth, offering comfort, and inviting play.
    Closing reception: Sat., April 30, 4-6pm
    Northern-Southern

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    SAGE Studio: Bottle, Shirt, Whistle

    Here's a solo exhibition by Philadelphia-based artist Woodley White, with drawings that focus on everyday objects – presented as a full-scale installation, with White's art covering entire walls.
    Through May 7
    SAGE Studio

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    The Blanton Museum: Invisibilia

    This is the first retrospective of Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz's work in the United States. The exhibition includes 40 exemplary works from his most evocative series created between the 1970s and today, wherein the artist has "turned photographic processes inside out to underscore the intrinsic fragility and transient nature of the image," revealing "how the act of opening the aperture to light instantaneously transforms the present into the past and life into memory."
    Through June 5
    The Blanton Museum of Art

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    The Blanton: Fantastically French! Design and Architecture In 16th- to 18-Century Prints

    Drawing primarily from the Blanton’s extensive holdings of French prints, this exhibition invites you to look closely at exquisite details, marvel at fantastic forms, and take delight in ornate embellishments that celebrate the creativity of imagination across three centuries.
    Through Aug. 14
    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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    UT Idea Lab: Never Alone

    This is the first public exhibition of the work of Kendrick Mitchell and Christopher Williams, who are serving life sentences at the same maximum-security prison in southeast Texas.
    Through July 1. Tue.-Fri., noon-5pm
    210 W. 24th

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    West Chelsea Contemporary: Duel Diagnosis

    This immersive exhibition features the artistic duo Dave Navarro and PADHiA – with special guest Al Diaz.
    Through April 17
    West Chelsea Contemporary

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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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