Nashville Arts Magazine » NEWS http://nashvillearts.com Nashville's Source for All Things Creative Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:04:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Steve Forbert http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/steve-forbert/ http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/steve-forbert/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:04:26 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=13683 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…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/steve-forbert/feed/ 0 To See As Artists See http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/to-see-as-artists-see/ http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/to-see-as-artists-see/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:52:47 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=13657 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…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/to-see-as-artists-see/feed/ 0 Jim and Janet Ayers http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/jim-and-janet-ayers/ http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/jim-and-janet-ayers/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:52:11 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=13651

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…

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]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/publishers-note-february-2012/feed/ 0 Visions of Villarreal http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/visions-of-villarreal/ http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/visions-of-villarreal/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:50:30 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=13648 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…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/visions-of-villarreal/feed/ 0 Kathleen O’Brien | Looks at the Year Ahead http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/kathleen-obrien-looks-at-the-year-ahead/ http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/kathleen-obrien-looks-at-the-year-ahead/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:47:41 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=13654 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…

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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…

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]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/npt-guide-february-2012/feed/ 0 John Wood & Paul Harrison Conquer the World http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/john-wood-paul-harrison-conquer-the-world/ http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/john-wood-paul-harrison-conquer-the-world/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:40:36 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=13669 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…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/john-wood-paul-harrison-conquer-the-world/feed/ 0 The Look of Love http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/the-look-of-love/ http://nashvillearts.com/2012/02/01/the-look-of-love/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:38:43 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=13686 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…

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