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Apr 20 Monday
Who Is the Sky?, released via Matador Records, is David Byrne’s first album since releasing the acclaimed 2018 American Utopia, which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and HBO film. It was produced by the Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), while its 12 songs were arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. Guests include Paramore’s Hayley Williams, St. Vincent and The Smile drummer Tom Skinner.
Apr 21 Tuesday
America’s largest touring arachnid exhibit has arrived at the Las Vegas Science & Natural History Museum! The Art & Science of Arachnids is an interactive exhibit celebrating the fascinating world of spiders, scorpions, and their relatives. From hands-on activities learning web-weaving and silk science, to learning the Tarantella Dance and enjoying macro photography, museum visitors will get a chance to dispel myths about arachnids and learn about conservation and the important role they play in our ecosystem.
Included: live arachnids, arachnid sculptures and artwork, and web-weaving demonstrations and interactive stations. Also, discover the roles arachnids play in medicine, music, and folklore.
Selecting for specific wavelengths from the prismatic spectrum of color in natural light produces Austine Wood Comarow's color palette. Colors plucked from light are vibrantly alive and will shift and change as the filters rotate or as the viewer moves about, making the perception of the art an active component of the work.
After Austine’s sudden passing in 2020, Cara, Erika, and Charlotte kept up the family legacy as the artists of Austine Studios until it closed in 2025.
The nearby Spring Mountains Visitor’s Center, just outside Las Vegas on Mt. Charleston, features a 75-foot-long Polage art mural celebrating the flora and fauna of the desert that inspired so much of her work.
Apr 22 Wednesday
The Donna Beam Gallery presents the MFA Thesis Exhibition of Kayla Lockwood: read the fine print. Lockwood is a multidisciplinary artist whose work interrogates domesticity, memory, and emotional labor, challenging the myth of home as a stable cornerstone of the “American Dream.” She holds a BFA in Art & Technology from the University of Oregon and is currently pursuing her MFA in Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Lockwood’s read the fine print is a two-floor installation that examines how mid-century domestic ideology structured behavior, perception, and social hierarchy through spatial and material systems. Rather than recreating a home, the work focuses on the mechanisms that produced it, including color-coded zoning, planning models, and institutional messaging. Materials such as stucco, house paint, neon, leather, and cast aluminum function as carriers of authority, translating policy and doctrine into embodied experience.
Referencing the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation grading system and postwar suburban expansion, the installation reveals how access, mobility, and stability were unevenly distributed. Through controlled sightlines, spatial sequencing, and accumulation, read the fine print positions domesticity not as a neutral refuge but as a designed system that continues to shape behavior and expectation.
The exhibition runs April 13-24. A 1950s-themed closing reception (period clothing encouraged but not required) will be held on April 24 from 5 to 8 p.m. An artist talk will take place on April 22 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Barrick Museum auditorium.
More info at Get Tickets.
Apr 23 Thursday
The city of Las Vegas and the First Friday Foundation hold a farmers market every second and fourth Thursday of the month on Goodman Plaza near the Las Vegas Civic Center. It's across from Las Vegas City Hall. There are vendors from farms near and far, food trucks, and artists.
Get a free two-hour parking validation for the 500 S. Main St. parking garage when you make a purchase!