Those dabblers and some devoted to the moving art form will get together on Saturday for the opening of Cut the Cord! Up Here Everything Makes Sense!, the latest exclamation-point-filled offering by the conglomeration of artists at Okay Mountain. ...

Photo courtesy of Okay Mountain The Mountain Is Alive: An Okay Mountain FundraiserSaturday, June 28Okay Mountain Gallery (1312 E Cesar Chavez)Free[info]This Saturday, Okay Mountain is opening its doors for an evening of auctions, raffles, games and music. The gallery, which is hoping to raise money to aid in operational costs, has assembled an impressive ensemble of artists to fill its walls. Works will be shown by: Kevin Bewersdorf, William Hundley, Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Mike......

There is absolutely no reason to stay in on Friday evening. Whether it's DJ Shadow at La Zona Rosa or Future Clouds and Radar at The Parish, downtown offers you a wide variety of music to kick off your weekend....

You can call it lowbrow art, pop surrealism or just plain ‘ol weird, but the work now on display at Okay Mountain features some of the best (and mind-blowingly bizarre) works by emerging California artists....

Image courtesy Okay Mountain Opening Reception for Introduction to Mountain Making: Okay Mountain StaffSaturday, November 17Okay Mountain Gallery (1312 E Cesar Chavez)7pm[info]In its two years of existence, East Austin's Okay Mountain hasn’t been big on exhibiting pieces created by the small group of local artists who run the place—instead, the gallery usually brings in artists from around the country to show work. But this weekend, Okay Mountaineers will have their day in the sun. In......

The artist who was first to plant his flag at Austin’s Okay Mountain gallery last year is back and bringing more of his bizarre works on paper, sculpture and installation art in Impish Animal. Houston native Jason Villegas, whose work has been displayed in various cities around the country, helped open Okay Mountain in April 2006 with his solo exhibition, Repressed Burial Fantasy. Since his first Okay Mountain appearance, Villegas has completed his MFA at......

Some of the city’s underexposed and underappreciated artists have come together for a special show opening Saturday at Gallery Lombardi. The offbeat Surprise Me includes a mixed bag of contemporary drawings, photos, sounds, videos, mixed media paintings and fiber art. Local artist Josh Rios helped organize the show and called on a few of friends to join him — Ryan Lauderdale, Rachel Cook and Corkey Sinks. Rios recently answered a few questions for Austinist about......

A shot from the opening night of Thickly Settled by Jeff Williams at Okay Mountain: Up close the dense layers of dust [flocked using an electronic flocking fiber] are a cross between the soft and cuddly qualities of a stuffed animal and the filth ignored under ones couch, blurring the line between comfort and the abject. Exhibition Dates: June 2nd - June 30th. Okay Mountain is open Wednesday 7-9pm and Saturday 12-5pm.......

Silver Pines plays to a packed Scoot Inn on Saturday night as part of the afterparty for Okay Mountain's "Thickly Settled by Jeff Williams" gallery opening.......

Okay Mountain held an opening this weekend for Cairo based artist Basim Magdy titled: Mud Pools and How We Got Ourselves to Look for Big Foot Heaven. Also on view, In the Grave of Intergalactic Utopia, the artist’s seminal public piece shown during an earlier exhibition in New York.......

FRIDAY [2] theatre • Improv rap group Aww Shit (Chris Trew, Cody Dearing, Eric Seufert) compose freestyle rap songs and improvise scenes based off of them at this week's Cage Match at Coldtowne Theater (11:30pm) art • Opening Reception for The Llamerret Show at Darkroom Gallery (7pm) art • Texas Biennial Opening Reception at Okay Mountain & Site 1808 (7-10pm, 301 Chicon Unit E at Third and Chicon) art • B Scene: A Night......

An art extravaganza along the vein of E.A.S.T., the Texas Biennial returns to Austin tomorrow, kicking off a month and a half's worth of nifty art-related events at the Dougherty Arts Center, Bolm Studios, Okay Mountain and Site 1808. This time around, they're showcasing just about every medium of visual art imaginable, including paintings, drawings, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and site-specific installations. Founded back in 2005 by Bolm Studios, Camp Fig, the Dougherty......

FRIDAY [12] Some of you have asked that we publish the Weekend IST List on Thursdays, in order to better help you plan your goings-on. We're happy to oblige. Starting today, we'll be including Friday-Sunday listings both on Thursday and Fridays. --Ed. Note music • Yacht Rock Party with DJ Starsign -- Chicago, Steely Dan, America, Air Supply, Toto, Boz Scaggs, Loggins and Messina, Carole King, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Doobie Brothers, Seals and......

MONDAY [20] film • Cine Las Americas presents Letters from the Other Side at Carver Museum (6:30pm, Free) film • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple at Alamo Downtown (7pm) film • Mouchette at Texas Union (7:30pm) film • "City of Men," Episodes 5 & 6 at Spider House (8pm, Free) film • Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) film • Who Killed the Electric Car at Café......

FRIDAY [13] music/art • Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) presents their latest Digital Showcase with Drop The Lime, MVSCLZ, HAPPYSUCKY, Wonder Jam Twins, Yatsuzaki, DJ Who's Jealous and DJ Radicon, plus visual artists including Ben Aqua, Ben Hibon, Bleep Labs, Cari Palazzolo, David Salinas, DEFASTEN, Eli Welbourne, Friedrich Kirschner, Johnny Cisneros, Lanneau White aka Karl Sapien, Lonja, Mike Ruiz, and Yuki Kawamura at The Mohawk (9pm-2am, $7/$4 general/members, 18+) ® music • Faceless......