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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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Ao5 Gallery: Polish Music Posters
This collection presents more than 30 music posters by artist Leszek Żebrowski.Through Nov. 5. Free.
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Art for the People Gallery: Spectacular
New art, new artists, new show – a group exhibition (more than 30 local artists) supercharges the interior of this popular South First Street venue. Bonus: This is also the debut of curator Hallie Rae Ward's own "Classical POP" show.Through Oct. 21
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ACC Art Galleries: Quotations from Daily Life
This exhibition brings together the work of seven ACC Studio Art faculty members – Jill Bedgood, Jonas Criscoe, Melanie Hickerson, Brian Johnson, Haydeé Victoria Suescum, David Thornberry, and Gary Webernick – who work in a range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, assemblage art, and sculpture.Through Oct. 27 -
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Camiba Gallery: The Unnameable Monster of the Human Psyche
Like a mad scientist, artist Jen Rose continues to assemble her monsters with nylon cord and hand-made porcelain, but she's also exploring materials like rattan, foam, cactus fiber, gold luster, platinum luster, and a patent-pending glow glaze. Reckon a visit to this excellent show will put a little glow glaze on you, citizen.Through Nov. 5 -
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Cloud Tree: How To Draw the Sky
Prentiss Douthit presents a collection of paintings, drawings, and collages inspired by his latest book, How to Draw the Sky, The Makings of a Memoir, the work documenting a child’s journey of understanding the power of creativity and how it defines his place in the world.Through OCt. 23 -
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Elisabet Ney Museum: Eve
This is a new exhibition by documentarian photographer Cindy Elizabeth, featuring an outdoor installation that is immersed within the museum’s native landscape. There are large-scale photographs inside the building, too, interwoven amongst Elisabet Ney's own neoclassical sculptures.Through Oct. 30. Free. -
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ICOSA: As It Was
Here are new works by Jonas Criscoe and B. Shawn Cox that explore "the transformative power of quilting." Through the use of traditional patterns, manipulated surfaces, and found materials, each artist employs a patina of touch to transform the familiar and nostalgic into a palimpsestic rendition of itself.Closing reception with 1) the artists, 2) beer, and 3) tacos: Sat., Oct. 29, noon-5pm -
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La Peña Gallery: Maderas Que Hablan
Witness a printmaking exhibition by women artists from Mexico (Sinaloa, Oaxaca, Tlaxcala, and Mexico City) and a catalog of woodblocks printed with a steamroller, providing a contemporary interpretation to the millenary tradition of the Day of the Dead.Through Nov. 4. Free. -
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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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Link & Pin Gallery: Lines of Interaction
The artist Larry Akers incorporates layered, patterned, refractive, or reflective materials to produce kinetic sculptures with a trippy, unforgettable twist. No, literally unforgettable: We saw a few of his Moiré-centric works on display at the DAC years ago and we're still thinking about them.Through Oct. 29 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Lost Pines
This exhibition of new photographs is the gallery's first presentation of work by the Austin artist (and musician and husband and father and professor) Barry Stone. You want to see images that are beautiful and often a little eerie? You want to witness photos with backstories that can inspire something like awe? Find yourself among these "Lost Pines."Through Dec. 3 -
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Lydia Street Gallery: SUM of the Parts
Valerie Fowler, that acclaimed painter of natural phantasmagoria, returns with a new show. Says the artist: "I began this body of work feeling scattered, a little spent and rudderless, then walloped by unrelenting heat, the worst in my memory, and I’m a lifelong Texan… Beyond the walls of my studio, fires and floods were happening seemingly everywhere, and the Arctic ice cap was melting four times faster than scientists had previously understood. I felt exhausted from the challenge to maintain hope. I decided to just keep at the work, following curiosity, making pieces that reflected my scattered consciousness." Suggestion: Give your eyes a glimpse of the wild sublime and soak in the glory of what Fowler's brushes and pigments so vividly capture.Through Oct. 30. Free. -
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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. -
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Neill-Cochran House: The Hope Suite
Mark Smith’s The Hope Suite is a series of forty-four collages inspired by the theme of global unity. Each 24-by-18-inch work on paper consists of a background monoprint or a digital photoprint, overlaid with collage, calligraphy, and mixed media. Note: The originals are part of the permanent collection of the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago; the works on display here are limited-edition prints of those originals.Through Dec. 16. Free. -
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Northern-Southern Gallery: Outer Middle
Brad Tucker has made some amazing new works: cheerfully complex, savvy, funny, reflective, and beautiful. Transmountain's design work is Italo-modern by way of El Paso, embedding critical reflections into luxurious forms, using material as grammar. Together, this pairing soars.Closing reception: Sun., Oct. 23, 3-4pm -
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Really Small Museum: Widdle Wasteland
Drive on up, walk on by! The latest installation at this neighborhood cynosure is Calder Kamin's small vignette of natural transitions and homage to the one of best recyclers: mushrooms. We, for one, gladly welcome our new mycelial overlords.Through Nov. 4. Free.1311 Harvey -
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Strange Beasts VII: Guzu vs. The King
The King of the Monsters is back, and this time he – Gojiraaaaaaaa! – will be vividly rendered by 23 bone-crushingly talented and ferocious artists from Austin. Printed and original artwork will be available for purchase, in-person and online, from the lizard-limning likes of Kyle Armstrong, Chet Phillips, Half-Human, Tessa Morrison, Matt Frank, Daddy Otis, and more.Through Nov. 6 -
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The Contemporary Austin: In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy
Explore the works of eight female artists – Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Adriana Corral, Ellie Ga, Juliana Huxtable, Tala Madani, Danielle Mckinney, Wendy Red Star, and Clare Rojas – in this new exhibition that explores how narrative and storytelling shape our senses of self, community, history, and identity.Through Feb. 12 -
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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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Wally Workman Gallery: Monochromes
Carol Dawson draws inspiration from the natural world, exploring the life cycles of flowers from their buds, infancies, blooms, and deaths, allowing herself to use at most three pigments in her works.Through Oct. 30 -
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West Chelsea Contemporary: Austin Director's Choice
This new show at WCC features works from renowned artists such as Slim Aarons, Ash Almonte, Salvador Dali, Mari Kim, Alex Katz, and moreThrough Oct. 23 -
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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.Call for appointment
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Atelier Dojo: Remote Studios
The local powerhouse of figurative painting, the art school that's the smart school for artists of all kinds, they've got a painting-along-at-home series going to help you keep your skills honed in these socially restrictive times, featuring live costumed models posing on camera and a thriving community of creatives rendering that lovely human biotecture from their separate studios. "Join us for a three-hour costumed-model drawing session. Use any supplies you wish, listen to music, share your work, chat with others. It’s a great way to stay connected with your art community!"Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30pm; Fridays, 6:30-9:30pm; Saturdays, 9:30-12:30pm. $5.
