Best Art Gallery

Just as the collective of visual artists that runs this funky Eastside space continues to develop its national profile – its Corner Store installation winning the 2009 Pulse Prize at the Miami art fair last winter, its Benefit Plate installation at Chelsea gallery Freight + Volume earning a favorable review in The New York Times this summer – Okay Mountain keeps building its rep as a showplace for contemporary art that's both provocative and engaging. Whether the exhibits are locally generated, as with the Austin Critics Table Award-winning group show "Polymict," or drawn from outside Austin, as with the music-themed "Sonny Smith: 100 Records," the work is so consistently fresh that you'll find yourself, like the bear in the old song, going over the Mountain again and again to see what you can see.