Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Strange Door
Jennifer R. Bernstein considers an exhibition in Beauford Delaney’s hometown of Knoxville focused on the artist’s relationship with James Baldwin.
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Famous Echoes: also tubes at Unrequited Leisure
Margaret Jane Joffrion visits a bygone internet era through an exhibition of code-based artworks at Unrequited Leisure, Nashville.
Aponte Forever: Art and Black Freedom in Nashville
In an exhibition at Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, artists reimagine a lost “book of paintings” created by José Antonio Aponte, a free Black man in nineteenth-century Cuba.
Clean Hands: Tanya Amyx Berry’s For the Hog Killing, 1979
Margaret Jane Joffrion sees a balance between violence and tenderness in images of a hog killing in Kentucky in 1979.
Glitch Tapestries: Noel W. Anderson at the Hunter Museum
Burnaway editor Logan Lockner unpacks the conceptual and material excavations in Noel W. Anderson’s solo exhibition Blak Origin Moment.
Just Off Beale: Henry Speller in Memphis
Hunter Braithwaite examines the music and drawings of self-taught artist Henry Speller, who recorded the sights and sounds of Memphis’s colorful nightlife.
Symbols and Archetypes at Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville
An exhibition responding to Jungian theories about symbolism and the unconscious collects artifacts and artworks from across two thousand years of human history in Nashville.
Rooms with a View: Heather Hartman and Megan White
Margaret Jane Joffrion considers two exhibitions of paintings in Nashville, revisits a poem by Emily Dickinson, and wonders if bugs can be saints.
Third Culture Kids: Nuveen Barwari and Beizar Aradini
Joe Nolan speaks with artists Nuveen Barwari and Beizar Aradini about their two-person exhibition reflecting on their experiences growing up in Nashville’s Kurdish community.
