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Your A-List: Best Art Gallery
The Live Music Capital of the World has been making inroads in all of the arts over the past decade or so. A burgeoning film scene, the new Long Center, a soon-to-be-built new home for the Austin Museum of Art, and a host of art galleries of all stripes popping up around town speak to Austin’s emergence as an art force in the Southwest.
The winner of the Your A-List poll for Best Art Gallery, Art on Fifth speaks to the fact that one not need a degree in art history or have spent hundred of hours touring the Louvre to appreciate the beauty and vitality of visual art.
With 39 percent of the vote, the gallery on (naturally) Fifth Street promotes itself as Austin’s largest contemporary art gallery, boasting a rotating schedule of exhibits and the works of Theodor Geisel, i.e. Dr. Seuss, attracting locals and out-of-town guests. The gallery also offers framing services, making the place your one-stop shop for getting a new piece for your house or office.
In addition, Art on 5th has also made a name for itself by bringing in some big names in the entertainment industry to exhibit their art. To wit, Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane had a popular exhibition at the gallery last year. A rock star visiting an art gallery in the Live Music Capital of the World … a natural fit.
Others receiving votes
- Blanton Museum of Art, 23 percent
- Austin Museum of Art-Downtown, 9 percent
- Austin Museum of Art-Laguna Gloria 6 percent
- Harry Ransom Center, 6 percent
- Women & Their Work, 7 percent
- Artworks, 6 percent
- Austin Galleries, 6 percent
- Gallery Soco, 5 percent
- Art Palace, 4 percent
- Flatbed Press, 4 percent
- Arthouse at Jones Center, 3 percent
- Davis Gallery, 2 percent
- Russell Collection Fine Art, 2 percent
- D Berman Gallery, < 1 percent
- f8 Fine Art Gallery, < 1 percent
- Gallery Shoal Creek, < 1 percent
- Haven Gallery, < 1 percent
- Lora Reynolds Gallery, < 1 percent
- Slugfest Printmaking, < 1 percent
- Stephen L. Clark Gallery, < 1 percent
- Studio 107, < 1 percent
Write-in: 4 Walls Fine Art
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