Joe Pagetta
Tradition | Tennessee Lives and Legacies
Photographs by Dean Dixon in the Courtyard Gallery at the Nashville Public Library These are interesting times we live in. All around us are social media experts, supposed masters of the art of engaging those other people around us attached to phones and tablets, and less increasingly, laptops and desktops. Yet in Nashville, as [...]
The South Through Eight Lenses and a Code
A SouthLight Salon exhibition at the Arts Company “The South Through Eight Lenses and a Code,” makes a big deal out of the “code” part of its title. Many of the mounted photos in the exhibit at TheArtsCompany, all by the eight photographers that make up the SouthLight Salon, include accompanying QR (Quick Read) [...]
Threads of a Story: History Inspiring Art
Portraits of Freedom Riders and Bus Boycotters by Charlotta Janssen at the downtown Nashville Public Library. Nashville, improbably, is yet to have a permanent memorial to the city’s pivotal role in the 1961 Freedom Rides and the young men and women who risked their lives to advance the cause of Civil Rights in America. [...]
40 Years of Queen
New “Lavishly Illustrated” Book Celebrates History of Band Several years ago, Chronicle Books put out Greetings from E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. For the fan, the oversized hardcover book in a slipcase was enthralling, not only in its story of the band, but in the way it [...]
Paparazzi Draw: Art on 5th
Sculptural Drawing by Denise Stewart-Sanabria at The Arts Company If you are connected in any way to the Nashville arts and cultural community, or frequent the First Saturday Art Crawl downtown each month, you will recognize many of the human inspirations behind Knoxville artist Denise Stewart-Sanabria’s new collection of plywood people currently on view [...]
View From A Small Boat
New Photographs by John Guider at Rymer Gallery There’s a great scene in Susana Fortes’ beautiful novel Waiting for Robert Capa, a fictionalized account of the life and romance of famed war photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro. In the scene, Capa, then still Andre Friedmann, and Taro, then Gerta Pohorylle, are just getting to [...]
