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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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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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Christian-Green Gallery: Not Only Will I Stare

UT's Art Galleries at Black Studies presents this new exhibition, curated by Dr. Simone Browne, drawing attention to the interventions made by artists whose works explore the surveillance of Black life.

Through May 21. Wed.-Fri., noon-5pm; Sat., 11am-2pm

201 E. 21st
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Cloud Tree Gallery: In-Between

In which curator Laura Lynn Johnson brings together eight artists who "abstract natural elements into peaceful spaces, both familiar and unfamiliar, real and fantastical, bold and colorful, known and unknown." In this show the artists are Rory Foster, Shawn Camp, Abi Daniel, Jason Brooks, Ann Flemings, Jana Swec, Court Lurie, and Blair Gallacher.

Through May 22

Cloud Tree
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Davis Gallery: Calm: A Journey

"My focus the past five years has been how line, color, and form can alter our sense of well-being," says the Austin-based artist Jan Heaton, whose newest watercolors saturate the walls of this excellent gallery with visual wonders that will alter your own sense of well-being, too – for the better. This exhibition reveals a journey illuminated by gentle, enticing beauty, a pigmented path forged with expertise and passion.

Through May 28

Davis Gallery
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MACC: Entropy

Recent works by Venezuelan artist Mery Godigna Collet, revealing the artist’s ability to transform deep research into profoundly moving works of art.

Through June 22

Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center
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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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Mexic-Arte Museum: Chicano/a Art, Movimiento y Más en Austen, Tejas,1960s to 1980s

This exhibition serves as a primer on the rich and understudied Chicano art movement in Austin, presenting a variety of mediums, themes, and artists, bringing together revolutionary artwork with abstract, conceptual, and commercial art, to show the breadth of creativity these artists achieved.

Through June 19

Mexic-Arte Museum
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Old Bakery Gallery: Paths of Light

Andrea Loomis' kiln-formed glass work focuses on the emotional strength of light. Larry Akers' artworks in patterned materials and illumination generate highly kinetic moire effects that respond to a viewer's movements and shifts of focus.

Through May 28
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Old Bakery & Emporium
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Pastel Fest

This is the Austin Pastel Society's spring members show, with more than 20 artists showing 41 pieces.

Through June 11

Artworks Gallery
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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 Contemporary Austin: The Whisperers

Tarek Atoui is a Paris-based artist and composer whose work explores the medium of sound through a highly collaborative process that generates networks of community involvement. The dynamic installations on view in this exhibition are both sound environments and spaces for activation through occasional live performances.

Through Aug. 14

The Contemporary Austin
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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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Women & Their Work: Delimitations

Through the use of Morse code, semaphore, and the flag form Alexandra Robinson appropriates symbols of American exceptionalism, which are informed by her upbringing and familiarity with military family life, and American ideals. The work in this exhibition is steeped in ideas of identity and signifiers that question place and how one exists in that place.

Through June 2

Women & Their Work

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