Emergency Arts, a complex of studios, non-profit charitiy spaces and galleries on 11th Avenue in Chelsea opened this past September. Not such big news in itself, sure, but, in this case, and in the approach taken here with the recyclable materials construction and communal feel of its dwellers, you see something closer to the heyday […]

Word went out on the internet ten days before the show opened—an invitation to artists to pack up some art and head down to High Energy Constructs in LA’s Chinatown arts district. This was no ordinary invitation, but an online chain letter. Each person who got the email was to forward it to ten others, […]

While religious art brings to mind traditional images of the Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ, the wide variety of works currently on display at the University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery and UT Downtown Gallery is proof that, in the world of sacred artistic expression, anything goes. "Thresholds: Expressions of Art and Spiritual Life" is the […]

Although Shawn Hummel has been known to photograph custom cars, his work is not related to nostalgia or kitsch and is about as concerned with documenting artifacts from a distinct subculture as Edward Weston was concerned with the cultural proclivities of the produce he photographed. Hummel is more enthralled by those same “lovely topologies” that […]

Opened in 1990, the Knoxville Museum of Art presents 10 to 12 exhibitions each year, featuring emerging artists and designers, its permanent collection and traveling exhibitions. Other activities at the museum include a semi-weekly classic film series, a weekly concert series, family-friendly days, as well as ongoing art classes, seminars and lectures. With 53,200 total […]

The work of UT art students and alumni has a knack for finding its way into notable art galleries and museums. In the past three years alone, for instance, two UT grads—Kelley Walker and Wade Guyton—were represented in the Whitney Biennial, and plenty more graduates have seen their creations surface in exhibitions both in the […]

Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art was founded in 1990 and has since played an extremely important role in the cultural scene in Rotterdam. Locally, but also internationally, the institution has always seen its responsibility in addressing a broad audience, while contributing to what you might think of as a more culture-specific or critical […]

There they were, sitting on the steps of the Art and Architecture building on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The hip art kids. Sure, I took my History of Graphic Design class as an elective towards my Anthropology degree (thus giving the art deco prints of old booze ads in my […]

It didn’t help that, the day the Art Gallery of Knoxville was slated to open, the city demolished the bridge—the Gay Street Viaduct—that would otherwise connect it with the rest of downtown. In effect, it was cut off, geographically at least, from downtown’s budding art scene before it even got started. Luckily, Art Gallery founders […]

First introduced to the paintings of Hackworth Ashley by Lee Wells’ curated “future perfect” wall at –scope Hamptons last summer, I was an immediate fan. Anyone who knows my style, knows this is it. “Is that Bill Cosby with his dick out?” And the rainbows! It looked to me like Bill himself couldn’t help but […]