Glasstire is reporting that Art Palace, Arturo Palacio's aptly named East Side gallery, will move to Houston in January. The move will indeed be a significant loss for Austin's contemporary gallery scene - it seems as though we are still recovering from Gallery Lombardi's closure - but acquiring space in gallery row on Houston's Main Street will allow Art Palace to expand and grow. Palacios has signed a lease on a space that used to house Finesilver Gallery in the Spanish revival style Isabella Court building. Meanwhile, Art Palace's Austin gallery recently opened a group show, One on One on One featuring work by Matthew Rodrigez, Sonya Berg, and collaborative works by Michael Sieben and Nathan Green among others. One on One... closes on December 5th. more ›

Despite the fact that it is still pretty sweltering outside, this evening offers the perfect opportunity to check out a few Austin galleries after hours. Art Palace, on East Cesar Chavez, is presenting two solo exhibitions: Use Your Illusion: Sterling Allen and Rx Garden: Jessica Halonen. The exhibitions will be on view through October 10, and the opening reception will take place tonight from 8 to 10pm. The aptly titled Use Your Illusion, features a new works by Austin-based artist and co-founder of Okay Mountain Gallery, Sterling Allen. Through video, photography, sculpture, and drawing, Allen plays out his experiences with optical illusion, visual perception, and trickery. more ›

Houston artist Elaine Bradford has knitted handmade sweaters for trees, vacuum cleaners, pickup truck bumpers and groceries. No item is too strange or unlikely (including taxidermied deer heads) to sport one of her cozy yarn creations. more ›

A group of multimedia artists from New York took a look at the ironically mass-merchandised search for self in a new exhibit opening this weekend at Art Palace. more ›

Modern art can baffle and delight, and sometimes leave you wondering, "What in the what was that artist thinking?" more ›

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Childlike optimism and one recording artist's poetic ponderings have inspired two local artists to create vivid new works on display at the East Austin gallery, Art Palace. Artistic friends Eric Gibbons and Nathan Green have teamed up to create the new exhibit,“Lasers in the Jungle," which opens Saturday. Gibbons' whimsical portraits pay homage to one of his music idols. "It comes from a lot of Paul Simon listening," he admits. "I have an affinity for... more ›

Gallery Lombardi, having bid farewell to its warehouse on West 3rd, will present its inaugural show at the new gallery space on West 7th in a matter of weeks, but in the meantime they're hard at work on a new project with local creative "enablers" from We Manage Stuff. The endeavor is called Mobile Art Place, and it seeks to enhance our city's access to new art (and artforms) by taking them out of... more ›

This weekend, you can ogle mass-produced spare modernism at IKEA, or head to East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T.), enter a quasi-Malkovichian portal, and swim for hours in homespun creative juju. A choice so easy it might be called cake. Now, while E.A.S.T. does stop short of offering the mindblowing total body-exchange experience for which we all yearn, don't fault it too much -- it edges close. The tour provides intimate access (yup, that's rock... more ›

Sometimes, artists create worlds that are rarely visited. Luckily for Austin, we're invited into one of the most creative examinations of a fantastic society created and analyzed by Peat Duggins. “The Moment that Changed My Life Forever” is a reactionary installation by Duggins that plays upon the occurances in his 2004 piece, “The Battle of Hickory Ridge,” exploring its multifaceted existence through tragedy, reactionary politics and the incoercible force of misfortune. From April 22 through... more ›