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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.

Xavier Schipani is an Austin-based transgender artist, who has focused his practice on creating large painting installations that explore the boundaries of gender, body politics, sexuality and queer identity. His unique voice and personal connection to the themes of his work create intimate experiences in combination with a larger than life scale to establish a contrast between the work and the viewer. He continues to investigate fear and anger, masculinity as performance, and the ambiguity of what makes a man.

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.

This excellent new show features ceramic work by Marianne Levy, paintings by Nora McMillen Burke, and sculpture by Jon Nelson. The art on display here will definitely, we reckon, provide much delight and comfort to your own inner creature.

The maestro of labor-intensive, screenprinted, hand-braided, multilayered graphic brilliance – yes, we're talking about that Adreon Henry – returns to the Camiba Gallery with a new show.

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."

This exhibition showcases the depth of work by the Davis Gallery family of artists, featuring 34 Central Texas-based artists – Malou Flato, Fallon Bartos, Lisa Beaman, Steve Brudniak, Jan Heaton, Denise Fulton, Dana Younger, Randall Reid, John Sager, Faustinus Deraet, David Leonard, and more – celebrating both the present and historical feel of our everchanging state.

The Ney Museum reveals a provocative new exhibition by multimedia artist Rehab El Sadek.

This is a solo exhibition of works on paper by Austin-based artist Brian Daly, featuring carefully measured angles, arcs, and linework filled with seamless gradients of color that cascade down the page, accompanied by neatly scattered marginalia about "his craft, his color choices, and intimate details of his personal life." Bonus: The gallery's project space reveals the new Ipinya installation by Akirash.

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.

Link & Pin presents a summer show featuring some of their favorite Austin artists; each artist (the amazing Leslie Kell among them) will have a work on display in the gallery, with additional pieces available online.

Bing Wright's new pictures are enlargements of uncommonly tight crops from images of children at play on a seashore — an outstretched hand splashing water or carrying a beach bucket, liberal smears of sunscreen, fluorescent plastic hair clips, a foot dragging through burbling waves.

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.

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.

What's that protean artist Stella Alesi been up to for the past year or so? What new areas of graphic exploration has she charted in ways that compel delighted scrutiny? The answer's in this new show at Northern-Southern, where the painter displays her latest creations alongside that of her friends Momo, Michelle Marchessault, Evan Horn, and Michael Hall – all abstractionists, all with work that's rigorously free. Bonus: There's a zine release reception with the artists on Thu., July 21, 4-6pm.

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.

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?

The power of color is Jen Garrido’s central focus for this new body of work, her shapes forming emotive vessels of pigment that communicate an ever-changing internal and external growth.

In this immersive art event that mixes color, conversation, and endangered species, artist Juliet Whitsett invites attendees to become a part of her newest body of work, through a series of activations and interactive experiences.

Through soft sculptures and draping foam relief tapestries, Steef Crombach examines the secret life of local icons like the Wheatsville Raptor and the Big Star Bingo Gorilla and more, exploring each character’s evolution as its identity morphs over time and place.

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.