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    Art & Parks Tour

    This sweet opportunity comes to us from the Downtown Austin Alliance, the Pease Park Conservancy, and Ride Bikes Austin – so we know it's a damned good thing indeed. Take the self-guided Art & Parks Tour to explore the best of what Downtown Austin art and parks have to offer through this selection of curated murals, artworks, and green spaces. You can sign up anytime, so click that URL and get ready to learn the most vibrantly visual parts of your city soon – live and in person.
     
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    Art Alive: New Me

    Here's a night of live performances by Austin artists, including live painting, music, break dancing, and the world premiere of the web series, New Me.
    Sat., Nov. 4, 6-9pm. $20-35.  
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    Freddo ATX

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    Austin Studio Tour

    Yes, the annual event returns in full force from our friends at Big Medium! The Austin Studio Tour is a free, self-guided celebration of visual art, offering deep looks inside the working areas and showrooms of Austin-based artists and creative collaboratives, three weekends of special exhibitions and installations and craft demonstrations and, well, you know there's likely to be all manner of afterparties rocking the town north, south, east, and west, besides.: Painting. Sculpture. Woodworking. Murals. Glasswork. Metalcraft. Collage. New-media manifestations in all manner of innovative flex. So much art in so many forms, brought into being by a diversity of creative, mark-making, culture-sparking humans. Here, in your city, just waiting to fill your senses with wonder.
    Through Nov. 19. Sat.-Sun., noon-6pm. Free.  
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    All over the city

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    Austin Studio Tour: ACC Arts and Digital Media

    Austin Community College opens their vast Eastside complex to allow exploration of their impressive resources for the Austin Studio Tour, highlighting all the arts and digital media programs – with an emphasis on the art department, jewelry department, and ACC art galleries. This everbusy place is a vibrant epicenter of learning as well as display, and highly recommended.
    Sat.-Sun., Nov. 4-5 & 11-12  
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    ACC Highland

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    Austin Studio Tour: Austin Art Space

    See the works of fifteen local makers in one location, at this home base of the Austin Visual Arts Association, with live music on the porch, light snacks, and beverages.
    Sat.-Sun., Nov. 4-12, noon-6pm
    Austin Art Space

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    Austin Studio Tour: Julie Ahmad Contemporary Art Gallery

    Here's a fine collection of original art and canvas gallery prints at all price points, from artists Julie Ahmad, Donna Schwandt, Lisa Zinna, Savannalore, Charlotte Schembri, and Anna Kamburis – featuring mixed media, photography, resin art, charcoal drawings, and plenty of handmade gifts.
    Sat.-Sun., Nov. 4-12, noon-6pm  
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    2311 Thornton

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    Instrumenthead Invades Austin

    Legendary rock & roll photographer Michael Weintrob unveils an exhibition from his exceptional portfolio that spans more than two decades.
    Fri.-Mon., Nov. 3-6, 6-10pm. Free.  
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    Antone's Nightclub

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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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    McLennon Pen Co. Gallery: Choice Is Sexy

    McLennon Pen Co. Gallery, in collaboration with Marilyn Minter and Exhibition A, hosts this emergency exhibition in Austin, in response and protest to the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade. This fierce and much-needed show – proceeds go to Planned Parenthood – presents work by Ellen Berkenblit, Huma Bhabha, Ann Craven, Inez & Vinoodh, Marilyn Minter, and Mika Rottenberg.
    Sat., Nov. 4, 6-8pm. Free.  
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    McLennon Pen Co. Gallery

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    Thomas Cook: Closing Reception

    Last call for paintings and graphic works by Thomas Cook, with the artist present. Happy hour-priced appetizers and drinks, too!
    Sat., Nov. 4, 3:30-5:30pm
    Cucina on 35th

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    Travis Heights Art Trail

    This 21st annual event is a two-day interactive art stroll, a walkable tour through the beautiful and historic Travis Heights neighborhood, featuring an array of arts and crafts from more than 35 Austin artists.
    Sat.-Sun., Nov. 4-5, 11am-5pm. Free.
    Travis Heights Neighborhood

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    Window Dressing XXX: To Suggest a Delay

    Ariel Wood makes objects and structures that evoke plumbing and drainage, here (in the shopfront window of ICOSA, viewable 24/7) exploring the stormwater infrastructure systems known as detention basins.
    Through Nov. 6. Artist reception: Fri., Nov. 3, 7-9pm
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    Austin Central Library: Mother/Land

    Yuliya Lanina’s exhibition delves into the Austin-based artist’s complex and personal relationship with the war in Ukraine. Through animation, sculpture, and installation, Lanina continues her introspective exploration of the emotional and physical impact of war and trauma. See our cover story on this powerful work right here.
    Through Nov. 5. Free.  
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    Central Library

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    Beginnings: Stories in Fused Glass

    This is a group show of fused glass by Texas artists, hosted by Helios Fused Glass Studio and curated by Kari Minnick, Malina Cipleu, and Kristine Shafer.
    Through Nov. 18
    Artworks Gallery

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    Big Medium: Fuertes y Firmes

    The multidisciplinary artist José Villalobos grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, and was raised in a traditional and religiously (Evangelical) conservative family. His work reconciles the identity challenges in his life, caught between traditional Mexican customs and American mores, as well as growing up with religious ideals that conflict with and condemn being gay.: Villalobos manipulates material through the context of self-identity as he examines gender roles within family culture, demonstrating that dismantling traditional modes of masculine identity centers an interstitial space where materiality softens virility.Recommendation: See this vivid show of highly resonant work, the inaugural exhibition in the new Big Medium space – from the folks who bring our lucky city the annual Austin Studio Tour.
    Through Dec. 2
    4201 S. Congress #323

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    Blue Moon Glassworks

    Handmade glass art and jewelry.
    Blue Moon Glassworks

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    Butridge Gallery: Access

    Witness, for your delight, Neal Flynn’s exhibition of mostly new assemblage, collage, and site-specific intervention exploring ideas relating to nostalgia, loss, violence, ownership, and modern Western culture.
    Through Nov. 25  
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    Dougherty Arts Center

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    Creekside Studio

    Creekside Studio is a women-owned printmaking studio and gallery, located in Canopy on the Eastside, specializing in fine art prints pulled by hand using archival materials and matrices: engravings, photogravure etchings, monotypes, woodcuts, copperplate etchings, and linocut
    Saturdays, noon-1pm
    916 Springdale, Bldg 2 #103B

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    Día De Los Muertos: Honoring Our Artists Who Have Already Departed

    This memorial exhibition features work by Rene Anguiano, Sam Coronado, Ray Gaytan, Marsha Gomez, Nivia Gonzalez, Lupe Lopez, Adolfo Mexiac, Arturo Rivera, Farah Rivera, Susana Santos, Pablo Taboada, and José Francisco Treviño, with an altar by Carmen Alvarez.
    Free.
    La Peña Gallery

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    Flatbed Press: Unfolding the Rainbow of Motherhood

    Kyle Hawley, founder and creative director of Letterpress PLAY, breaks the silence surrounding motherhood with her powerful exhibition, using the unique medium of monoprinting, to transform cloth utility accessories and garments that she designed for mothering into seven life-sized prints that are embedded with colors that recall the nostalgic colors of Kodachrome.
    Through Dec. 2. Free.
    Flatbed Press

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    Forces of Nature: Ancient Maya Art

    From ceramic vessels to greenstone jewelry, 200 works of classical Maya art (250-900BC) depict the relationship between the royal courts of ancient Maya and their supernatural entities.
    Through Jan. 7. $8-15.
    The Blanton Museum of Art

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    Golden Mean: Candy Land

    This is a whimsical collection of ceramic pieces by Tanya Zal, featuring works that have been baked, dressed up, decorated, frosted, and swirled into "an indulgent playful daydream."
    Through Jan. 7. Free.
    Golden Mean Gallery

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    Goodluckhavefun: Devotions

    This is a solo exhibition by Joy Scanlon, a site-specific display of paper pulp paintings and hand-dyed textiles, in which the artist reinterprets “inherited forms,” referencing quilts, altarpieces, and mosaics.
    Through Nov. 12
    Goodluckhavefun Gallery, 1207 Enfield

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    grayDUCK Gallery: Seagulls Don’t Sound Like Pigeons

    Cande Aguilar’s art is inextricably linked with the culture, people, and imagery of his hometown of Brownsville, TX. A self-taught artist, Aguilar forged his unique style called “Barrio Pop” from the landscape of La Frontera.
    Through Nov. 19  
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    grayDUCK Gallery

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    If The Sky Were Orange: Art In the Time of Climate Change

    This two-part exhibition explores the history and contemporary urgency of climate-related issues. Curated by journalist Jeff Goodell, who has written extensively on the topic, it's the first exhibition at the Blanton to explore one topic across several of the museum’s temporary gallery spaces. See our review of the show right here.
    Through Feb. 11. $8-15.
    The Blanton Museum of Art

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    Ivester Contemporary: Cannibal

    Here's an exhibition of 13 paintings by Ryan Sandison Montgomery that will rotate through seven positions on the gallery walls over the course of six weeks.
    Through Nov. 11
    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: FREE FOOD (for thought)

    You recall that the Reynolds Gallery recently moved from Downtown to West Sixth, right? Yes – and now here's their fourth presentation of drawings and wall paintings (of single words or short phrases!) by Kay Rosen.
    Through Nov. 11
    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

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    MASS Gallery: More Than a Feeling

    New works by Kelly Breez, Simone Thornton, and Sarah Murphy.
    MASS Gallery

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    Mexic-Arte Museum: 40 years of Dia de los Muertos

    This exhibit presents an impressive collection of relevant artworks created by artists with an intimate connection to the Mexic-Arte Museum and the Austin community.
    Through Jan. 7
    Mexic-Arte Museum

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    Museum of Illusions

    Enter the fascinating world of illusions in this new venue that boasts a stunning array of intriguing visual, sensory, and educational experiences among new, unexplored optical wonderments.
    $20-24.  
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    11010 Domain #100

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    PL in ATX: Polish Posters Show

    Here's an exhibition of posters by a Polish designer, Patrycja Longawa.
    Through Nov. 30
    Ao5 Gallery

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    Prizer Arts & Letters: Sacred Trash

    Here's a show of collage work by the acclaimed author Nick Flynn. “Throughout my life I’ve gathered ephemera (from sidewalks, brochures, magazines, children’s drawings)," says Flynn. "I cannot say why I do this, but I’ve always had a hard time ignoring an interesting scrap of paper, especially one with some scrawl on it. From this gathering I developed a collage practice, which continues to this day.”
    Through Nov. 12
    Prizer Gallery

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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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    The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation

    Yes, the SARF is welcoming visitors every Saturday – to say hello, apply to adopt special stuffies who need homes, and be dazzled by "the creative endeavors of the most talented stuffed minds ever assembled."
    Saturdays, noon-4pm. Donations accepted.
    The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation

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    Umlauf Sculpture Garden: Apropos

    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. Bonus: "Apropos" is a juried group exhibition of contemporary art exploring an aspect or aspects of Umlauf’s work – featuring new pieces by Darcie Book, Janet Brooks, Nathan Burgess, Bella Cheng, Avery Connett, Matt Donner, Sarah Fagan, Leslie Kell, Ellen LeBlanc, Gary McElhaney, Jennifer Pate, and more.
    Through Nov. 26
    Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum

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    West Chelsea Contemporary: Combinations

    Here's a show by the legendary Cey Adams, credited as the architect of Hip-Hop’s visual language through his work as the founding creative Director of Def Jam Recordings. Damn right it's important, which is why this is the gallery's first solo artist exhibition. Bonus: Featured alongside Adams’ body of work are images from legendary photographers Martha Cooper and Janette Beckman.
    Through Nov. 19
    West Chelsea Contemporary

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    Women & Their Work: Eye Moon Cocoon

    Virginia L. Montgomery's new solo exhibition is a surrealist thought experiment about the philosophical praxis of atomic healing, featuring new video art, sound art, performance photographs, and sculptural objects that interweave psychoanalytic, mythological, and scientific textures. Bonus: luna moths!
    Through Nov. 30
    Women & Their Work

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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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    Yard Dog: Complicated Characters

    This new show at Austin's finest bastion of folk art features mixed-media collaborations that combine Jim Sherraden's printmaking with Jon Langford's painting to brilliant, rockabilly effect.
    Through Nov. 30
    Yard Dog

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    Yard Dog: New Baseball Paintings

    Austin artist Will Johnson explores the history of baseball in a series of portraits of players. An avid baseball fan since childhood, he began creating these paintings in 2007 or 2008, wanting to pay tribute to some of his favorite players and stories — especially unheralded players — through folk art paintings.
    Yard Dog
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