It was announced last night that Gallery Lombardi will close on January 15th, 2009. The contemporary art gallery, currently located on West 7th Street, has existed in Austin since 1996. Proprietor Ron Prince and Director Rachel Koper cite not making "nearly enough money this year" as a reason for closing the gallery. The sad news broke at last night's opening reception for Lombardi's current show, the Xmas Expo. Prince debuted a collage informatively titled "The Gallery Will Close in January". The celebration of the last show went on as scheduled and featured music by Coma in Algiers and Leila Bela among others. As is typical of Gallery Lombardi openings, the space was packed to overflowing and art appreciators spilled out into the gallery's parking lot. more ›

Saturday marks the opening of Wheelchair Epidemic, a group show featuring exclusive black and white photos taken at Antone’s, 80s Austin punk scene photos by documentary photog Bill Daniel, and various music-inspired drawings, paintings and mixed media collages. more ›

Radical Nautical, which opens this Thursday at Gallery Lombardi, introduces the question of whether more than one octopus in a room spells a troop of octupuses, or just a bunch of octopi. (You might prefer to dodge the issue altogether by referring to them as cephalopods). The show's general nautical theme sprang forth from the collective consciousness of its jurors, all big machers on the Austin art scene: Ian Schultz, Michael Schliefke, Kevin Peake,... more ›

Spring is officially here (as of March 21) and the displaced kids at Gallery Lombardi will be hosting a Communist (Art) Party to celebrate Tuesday night from 7-10pm. more ›

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... 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 ›

On Saturday, August 20th, from 6pm-10pm, Progress Coffee (500 San Marcos St) will host a closing party for The Texas Monkey Project. The exhibit, which has been on-going since late July, features original "primate-themed" submissions by fourteen area artists. All works are part of a silent auction which ends at 8pm, and benefits Primarily Primates, a sanctuary located in Boerne, Texas. From TexasMonkeyProject.com: Primarily Primates...specializes in the care and treatment of monkeys and apes.... more ›

There's just too much stuff happening tonight to keep track of, so we're reposting the IST list for your convenience. See you out there. ( F I R S T ) T H U R S D A Y art · In House Gallery presents “Barnyard”, with paintings by Ethan Azarian, Felice House, Rachel Koper & Rainey Navaro. 5-10pm. Thanks, Austinist newbie Craig! [map] music · Hurts to Purr, Maneja Beto, and La La Land... more ›