Every Picture Tells A Story
“You can say, man, it’s just a fireplug,” says steve Forbert. “But aren’t they all unusual?” They actually are, though most folks in and out of the art world find fireplugs about as unusual as…
American Art from The Phillips Collection at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Among the great American museums, only a handful reflect the singular aesthetic vision of their founders: the Frick Collection in New York, the Barnes Collection in Merion, Pennsylvania, and the Phillips Collection in…
Private Collection | Public Vision
To work with Jim and Janet ayers is to work with two forces of nature. They are each focused and dedicated to every enterprise they take on. Collectively, when one of their enterprises takes on life as…
Art Creates a City
Two fabulous exhibits kick off the busy February art scene. The Phillips Collection from Washington, D.C., opens February 3 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts with works by Rothko, Homer, Hopper, and Gottlieb, among others. Please check…
If the creative fervor of youth, stylistic appreciation of antiquity, and existential propensity for introspection were to unite on canvas, the results would likely resemble the works of twenty-four-year-old artist Jesús Villarreal. Luckily for us, Villarreal recognizes the fortuitous outcome when he assumes the dual roles of…
Tennessee Performing arts Center President and CeO Kathleen O’brien has steered the non-profit arts organization through changes to its business model that have included expansion of the board of directors, the move to independent ticketing, and independent presenting of broadway tours. She’s also overseen record-breaking ticket sales and…
Victor schmidt’s studio is in the May hosiery Mill—built in 1940, deco brick and stone on the outside, offices and shop space on the inside, well used but still solid after seven decades. Victor leads me down dark halls and up stairs, past tiers…
Starting at the Frist, February 3 – May 6
A British invasion arrives at the Frist Center this month as artists John Wood and Paul harrison bring their delightfully quirky perspective to the Gordon Contemporary artists Project Gallery. The duo…
From the Lens to the Heart
In 1874 Alfred Lord Tennyson looked to the newly emerging art of the photograph to illustrate his epic arthurian legend, Idylls of the King. He asked his friend Julia Margaret Cameron to provide a series of photos to capture the…
