Look Homeward, Angel: The Asheville Art Museum Reopens
After being closed for three years and undergoing a multi-million-dollar renovation, the Asheville Art Museum reopens, offering a rich, layered picture of art in Appalachia and beyond.
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A Very Unusual School: Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Today
As institutions around the world mark the centenary anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, Diana C. Stoll reconsiders the school’s legacy in Appalachia.
You Can’t Eat Prestige
As part of our Art & Labor series with Scalawag, Ben Beckett reports on art workers’ unionization efforts and the racist history of right-to-work laws in the South.
In a Dream-Pod: Jennifer Meanley at Oneoneone in Chapel Hill
Maria Britton unpacks the dense, vividly rendered paintings in Jennifer Meanley’s solo exhibition Everything I Can Fit, in a Dream-Pod in Chapel Hill.
School of the Alternative in Black Mountain, North Carolina
In this month’s DIY Index entry, BA visits School of the Alternative, an alternative arts education program in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Doing is Living: Ruth Asawa and Black Mountain College
Joe Nolan considers sculptor Ruth Asawa’s years at Black Mountain College in his review of the catalogue accompanying her 2018 exhibition “Life’s Work” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
Summer of Discontent: Wim Botha at NCMA and 21c Durham
In his first solo exhibition in the United States, South African artist Wim Botha ambivalently embraces and destroys Western art historical iconography.
Ralston Fox Smith at Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville
In a solo exhibition at Tracey Morgan Gallery, painter Ralston Fox Smith imbues color theory and geometric abstraction with fresh emotional richness. Read BA contributor Jeremy Phillips’s review.
James Henkel at Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC
BA takes a close look at phtographer James Henkel’s solo exhibition “Table Arrangements” at Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC.
