Except for seven administrators and security officers, the  Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has placed its entire staff on temporary furlough because of COVID-19.

By taking a chance on playing a concert at Rhodes College, Marsalis gave the Curb Institute credibility and paved the way for appearances by George Coleman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Harold Mabern and Charles Lloyd.

Nearly 4,500 people logged on to QuarantineCon, an online professional development conference co-founded by Memphis native Scooter Taylor. 

The only Pulitzer Prize-winner with “Memphis” in the title, Peter Taylor's 1986 novel explores the fine social distinctions between Memphis and Nashville at mid-century. 

“There wouldn’t have been a Select-O-Hits had Jerry Lee not married his 13-year-old first cousin,” Johnny Phillips said of the family-run business that has transitioned from vinyl to cassettes to CD's to digital production. “Who would’ve thought that?”

I have missed entire seasons of music, art and drama for no good reason at all. Now that they’re closed, they’re all I can think about. 

Levitt Shell hopes to reschedule the Wilco show for Spring 2021.

Like a “Memphis music milkman,” artist Graham Winchester makes personal deliveries of his new vinyl single, while Opera Memphis vocalists take requests for outdoor neighborhood performances. 

Jamie Harmon's photography career has always been about connecting with Memphians. With citizens stuck inside, he came up with a way to keep capturing life around town.

With three hit singles, two turf-grabbing country covers, definitive secular and religious anthems and some of the most tender pop music ever recorded, 1973's "Call Me" is Al Green's finest moment.

The 2020-21 Broadway Series at the Orpheum also includes “Hadestown”; Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls”; “Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville”; and “Jesus Christ Superstar” on its 50th anniversary tour. 

The film, set in Memphis, stars Mamoudou Athie, Courtney B. Vance and Niecy Nash, and debuts on Friday, March 27.

The orchestra will salute Beethoven’s 250th birthday with Symphony No. 9, perform a tribute to Aretha Franklin and revisit “Romeo and Juliet” with the help of the Tennessee Shakespeare Company.

If you love what you hear, let the mix play a few times to be sure the artists see a few pennies. Now is the time to buy that extra record, download an album instead of streaming it, spring for that cool  T-shirt or koozie or sticker.

Gerald Jenkins travels the globe as a keyboardist in a soul band. But demand for the music he performed in Memphis' 1990s rap scene led him to put his keys down and pick up the microphone again for a Japanese tour.

The free event will include headlining performances from Southern Avenue, MonoNeon and Ben Nichols of Lucero.

The festival is looking at dates in the fall for the series of events that cover a month.

This edition of The Weekly Memphian offers readers who are homebound tips on diversions from life in the time of coronavirus. This guide covers March 19-25.

A joint exhibition of work by the famed photographer Eggleston and Jennifer Steinkamp at the Dixon Gallery has been extended to April 5. The Dixon is closed for two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic, but currently scheduled to reopen March 31.

Art history professor Earnestine Jenkins describes Augusta Savage’s sculptures as a form of resistance to the way black subjects were represented in the last century.

After canceling her "Here We Go Again" tour, following concern surrounding the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, Cher's performance at FedExForum has been rescheduled.

The legendary pop artists were participating in headlining tours scheduled at FedExForum and the Orpheum.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers Mar. 12-18.

The umbrella arts organization invited its more than 70 grantees to talk about public health in galleries, museums and for events, in response to the coronavirus.

In the University of Memphis Tigers' basketball museum exhibition, history is marked as B.F. and A.F.  The F is for Finch.