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Austin-based abstract painter St. Martin's large creations and limited palettes "combine with his expressively edited gestures and general lust for life," as you can see in this new show curated by his longtime friend Brian David Johnson at Cloud Tree – featuring an overview of works that began in 1999.

Austin's beloved purveyors of “Gay America’s favorite cleaning agent” bring the XXX SXSW with DJs Daddie Dearest, Dr. Beard, Nola’s Trax Only. Why, you ask? They're celebrating their new jockstrap line and bringing gogo dancers too!

Jesús I. Valles and Bonica Ayala have teamed up as director/producer duo to bring you a "powerhouse" comedy show: starring Linzy Beltran (of Jazz Kween and 2017 B. Iden Payne: award-winning Latinauts) and Kim Tran (of Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls and 2018 B. Iden Payne award-winning Y'all, We Asian). Expect a mix of multimedia and live performances digging into and digging on race, sexuality, body positivity, motherhood, and pop culture.

Unbounded Agency and Estudio 1070 promise an extra saucy serving for this spesh SX edition with DJs and drag queens from Florida, Mexico, and beyond. That includes a bbs Y2K and Belladonna, plus Geexella, La Fiebre, and Nurrydog.

This is LOLA's workshop premiere of a chamber opera based on the legendary show by Terry Galloway, featuring a libretto by Galloway and an original score by Peter Stopschinski. The production stars mezzo-soprano Liz Cass as Dinah LeFarge, a "quite cleverly intellectual, rather sexual woman of independent means who seldom ventures outside her apartment and refuses to answer her door unarmed." Oh, this'll be some kind of a thing, all right!

The amazing man with the make-you-laugh plan brings his blend of bizarre antics, audience interaction, hilarious video clips, and mind-blowing magic to this lucky Austin stage for one night only – so you'll wanna get your tickets before they, ah, disappear.

Don't let the Fest end without hanging with the Pink Elephant Radio crew for their official LGBTQ hip-hop showcase featuring Bobby Lytes, Omb Bloodbath, Kidd Kenn, Aina Breiyon, and more.

Here's one final exhibition for Recspec's current digs, before the whole Flatbed complex is shut down and everyone scatters to, like, the four winds. So they're having several of the best local artists who've shown at the gallery return to cover every wall in the place with their connecting artwork. Featuring work by Tim Kerr, Annie Alonzi, Thor Harris, Alanna Loosen, Lance McMahan, Lindsay Eyth, Mike Combs, Polly Morwood, Annalise Gratovich, Katie Cowden, and many more.

Just in time to coincide with Austin's big ol' media hullaballoo – you know the one – here's the national Satellite initiative energizing the already vibrant MOHA with 30 interactive and immersive exhibitions presented by galleries, curators, artist-run spaces, and nonprofits from across the United States.

Yeah, you know we already admire the people and products of Still Austin – but now even more so as they set up these two days of much live music and craft marketing and plenty of artisanal tippling as a benefit for the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians.

Oh holy shit – stop the presses! This presentation of the 2019 UT New Theatre program is written by Hannah Kenah, which fact suggests that, if you were gonna see just one of these UTNT shows, then this new Kenah work is the one to attend. Oh, and the "disheveled comedy" is "an homage to Our Town's theatrical examinations of life and afterlife" and is directed by Mason Rosenthal.

Elizabeth Chapin’s work references her Southern upbringing and the conflicted nostalgia surrounding the gentility and graciousness of the South. "Chapin views much of this culture as made possible largely by graceless and dark systems. This obfuscation of ugliness and the worship of appearance is the theme that runs throughout her new body of work." Ayup. Now, how about a large array of exemplary fauvist portraits, sometimes embellished by frames of tulle or active neon twisted like wild yarn? This fierce combo sizzles like angel spit on a griddle, makes eyes take wing. Recommended.