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New American Talent: 22, up at Arthouse at the Jones Center for another month, has received positive reviews. That's unsurprising, considering Anne Ellegood, curator of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., juried the show. Picking and choosing from nearly 900 submissions, she landed on 96 works generated by 45 artists, 15 of whom are from the great state of Texas. You might recognize locals Roberto Bellini, William Hundley, Rebecca Rothfus, Joseph Phillips...

MONDAY [23] books • David Sedaris at The Paramount Theatre books • Bill Bradley presents The New American Story at BookPeople (7:30pm) art • Artistic License: WorkSpace Artist Jedediah Caesar at the Blanton Museum of Art at The Blanton Museum of Art, MLK at Congress (Included with Museum Admission, 6-7pm) comedy • "Funniest Person in Austin" Contest, Hosted By Mario DiGiorgio (Winner 1999)" at Cap City Comedy Club dance • The Whirling Dervishes at...

TUESDAY [19] film • Waiting for Guffman at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) ® film • AFS Essential: These are the Damned at Alamo Downtown (7pm) film • Butterfly at The Space (8pm, Free) film • Pieces at Spiderhouse (9pm, Free) film • Yacht Rock with Captain Smoothie live! at Alamo Downtown (9:45pm, $10) film • Ravenous at Spiderhouse (11pm, Free) music • Architecture in Helsinki, The Blow, Prom Nite (outside), Daughters, Russian Circles, The...

UT PAC's Bass Conert Hall is already the largest performance space in Austin, boasting 3,000 seats and playing host to everyone from Ballet Austin to the touring company of Movin' Out (and, really, every other large scale performance that comes from, or to Austin).

Fresh from their stunning 5x7 art sale and exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center debuted their latest showcase last weekend, New American Talent: The Twentieth Exhibition. Austinist happened to stop by Arthouse last Saturday - after checking out the brilliant Annie Liebovitz display at AMOA, which you need to see - and caught a snippet of the fascinating slide presentation by Dan Cameron, Senior Curator at Large of the New Museum of Contemporary Art...