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Remember how we told you that the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum had reopened? But, well, you know our city's current coronavirus situation has gotten a little out of control. And so the lovely Umlauf is shuttered until at least the end of July. Suggestion: Do your species a solid, citizen, and put that mask back on.

This exhibition of new works by Jana Swec and Jonas Criscoe explores the concept of entropy through movement, pattern, cycles, and decay. Appropriately enough, ICOSA was in movement toward an opening to the public; but the recently spiking pattern of Covid-19 has altered the cycles of renascence (thanks, we daresay, to the general decay of common sense, leading to masklessness and anti-vaxxers), and so this will be a by-appointment-only show. But, hold on: "Each week we will be rotating work from the exhibition into our front window space. This will allow those who feel more comfortable seeing the show from afar to view the exhibition over a four week span, in an outdoor setting." Hell of a great idea, especially because the art is so good that no one should miss it.

That meticulous creator Laura Lit is working now, producing fast and focused bursts of drawing with colored pencils, pieces that are reminiscent of her paintings for the "After Images" show at this excellent gallery. The new compositions "seem sentient, astral manifestations of spirit visitors," we're told. But we're too earthbound to cotton to such descriptors and are instead merely like, "Daaaaamn, these drawings are gorgeous!" Which is why this news is exciting: The Northern-Southern website and Instagram will feature one new drawing every Friday until Lit completes the series.

This show features images by activist photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, telling a visual story of the struggle against segregation, race-based disenfranchisement, and Jim Crow laws in the 1960s. These photos capture the day-to-day struggles of everyday citizens and their resolve in the face of violence and institutionalized discrimination – with more than a dozen additional images representing activism and protest in Austin's own history.

Yes, you have to make a reservation. Yes, it's totally worth it – because the Julia C. Butridge gallery in the Dougherty Arts Center reopens (in a limited manner, with social distancing and masks) with a show of work by three artists – Nora McMillen Burke, Jon Nelson, and Marianne Levy – and it's all worth feasting your peepers on. But we daresay it's Levy's "Grimm Re-Articulated," with its array of reimagined and stunningly sculpted fairytale characters and situations, that'll warp your dreams for months to come.

Currently open by reservation only, yes, but you should have no reservations about seeing this stunning exhibition by Dallas native Lee Albert Hill. You want an eyeful of big, bright abstractions via acrylics on canvas over board, handwrought yet almost machinelike in their meticulous design and execution? You probably do, especially in this case. Because it's like … um … like if someone hired Mike Hinge and Bill Sienkewicz to show how well tangrams could be used to illustrate subatomic events from CERN's bubble chamber – and then threw a fistful of chaos shards at the collaboration's results. The accompanying image here is one miniaturized example; imagine seeing a roomful of such intricacies at full size. Hell, imagine scheduling a private viewing of this show with gallerist Troy Campa: That's some solid pandemic diversion right there, tell you what. (And your man Brenner rhapsodizes a bit further about it in this review.)

Inspired by the Mexican American Cultural Center's annual La Mujer celebration – and by the first feminist of the New World, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz – this online group exhibit is curated by April Garcia and features womxn-identifying and nongender-specific artists whose artwork is tied to activism, feminism, cultural. and gender identity storytelling, environmental protection, and socioeconomic parity.

This second installment of the collection's online Vertual Solo series features the work of 15-year-old Austinite Twyla Rhode.

That Austin epicenter of the printing arts presents a new exhibition of woodcuts by Ben Muñoz, featuring his series called The Endless Endeavor. These stunning woodcuts are 100-by-52-inches, the massive pieces communicating both in scale and content the idea of life being larger and much more than ourselves. Flatbed and Muñoz "are eager for the artist and individuals to talk about the content of his work one-on-one;" reserve your meeting with the artist for July 24 or July 25; other appointments for multigenerational groups of four or fewer can be scheduled here.

That's right! So make an appointment to check out this inventive array of creative work. (Note: Only five people allowed per appointment; no hugging, kissing, high-fiving, or even fist-bumping the gallerist.) But, look: Sarah Sudhoff's "Point of Origin" takes cues from the connections between sound and human emotion, here realized with suspended sculptures, sound installation, and debossed wall works that draw upon the artist's personal observations, cartography, and the mechanics of helicopters – especially those copters involved in the nearly 300 flights completed in just one month for Houston's Memorial Hermann Health System.

This is a group show by relay, begun in July of 2020 as a method of socially distancing a community in the height of the pandemic: Artists took turns alone in the space, each adding to the exhibition. Now, as it nears its close, the exhibition resembles a community in which work converses and overlaps. With Adreon Henry, Vy Ngo, Dawn Okoro, Leon Alesi, Matt Steinke, Sev Coursen, Stella Alesi, 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?

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.

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!"

This popular YouTube channel interviews MLB players, porn stars, Emmy/ Oscar winners, and everyday folk about their tattoos. Now they'll be in Austin for one day only (Sat., July 11) and could maybe interview you, citizen. Contact John Wagner via email with a picture of your ink ASAP!