Twin brothers Nikolai and Simon Haas are back where it started. The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is presenting Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley, the first mid-career survey of the duo's boundary-blurring practice, on view from 27 September 2026 through 17 January 2027 — the artists' first major museum exhibition in the city where they spent much of their childhood. The Haas brothers were born in Los Angeles in 1984 but lived in Austin and elsewhere in Texas from the ages of three to nineteen, absorbing the city's famously offbeat creative culture — the one summed up by the unofficial motto "Keep Austin Weird." They founded their collaborative studio in Los Angeles in 2010 and have since built a practice that refuses to sit neatly inside art, craft, design or technology, moving freely between all four. The survey traces fifteen years of that shape-shifting output across more than eighty works: cast bronzes, hand-carved exotic woods, ceramics, blown glass, intricate beadwork, figurative furniture and plush cartoon-like characters. Their forms are organic and otherworldly — a brilliant, bizarre strawberry tree, for instance, reads as if transplanted from another planet — playful on the surface yet driven by rigorous material experimentation. The title nods to the robotics concept in which near-human replicas trigger revulsion rather than empathy, with an added dose of cuteness as the fix. Looking back over their career, the brothers identified that dynamic — the strange space between the artificial and the natural — as a running theme. The show previously appeared at the Cranbrook Art Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and will travel on to the Mint Museum in Charlotte in 2027.