This week, NKA Gallery shows work by Black male artists, Opera Memphis presents a political thriller and you can learn to play the harmonica (for free).

One of the opera’s major goals with the move is to be able to use the space cooperatively and collaboratively with other arts groups.

Memphis will join Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga in a five-month, statewide art exhibition this week.

Austin Butler, the young actor who took on the formidable role of Elvis Presley, is also one of five Best Actor finalists. 

“I wanted to catch them at their most authentic before the prison system had gotten a hold of them, before they had been changed by this trial. I wanted to see their actual faces,” artist Charles Shipp said. 

Memphis native and young adult author Kristen R. Lee said she wants to tell stories from people who are not heard from often. Her new book, out Tuesday, explores those experiences.

The Museum of Science and History is using puzzles, videos and more to teach people about artificial intelligence in its new exhibit. “Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind and The Machine” opened Jan. 22.

More than a thousand mourners — including Axl Rose, Billy Corgan and Alanis Morrisette — gathered at Graceland to remember Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, who died in Los Angeles on Jan. 12.

If you like any of the following, we might have a picture for you this week: Cats, pizza, trees, the Memphis Grizzlies or Tigers basketball. Take a look and vote for your favorite.

Plus: Julien Baker’s band boygenius makes the cover of Rolling Stone. 

The festival’s three main stages will take place in Tom Lee Park.

This week, the late George Hunt has a posthumous exhibition, Playhouse presents the story of Alabama’s “Scottsboro Boys” and Black Lodge hosts a showtunes rave.

Memphis moved up three notches on MovieMaker Magazine’s list of the 25 Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker.

Jazmin Miller is on course to help heal trauma on several levels, including the complicated feelings she says many Black people have with agriculture as an institution. 

A public memorial service for Lisa Marie Presley has been scheduled at Memphis’ Graceland. 

Gary Payton, Luol Deng, Nancy Lieberman and Eddie George were recognized as this year’s National Civil Rights Museum Sports Legacy Award honorees as part of the Grizzlies Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Game.

Panelists at the National Civil Rights Museum event included Katrina Merriweather, head coach of the University of Memphis women’s basketball team, Memphis Grizzlies small forward Danny Green and former NBA superstar Grant Hill.

Panelists for the event will include Memphis rapper NLE Choppa, Grizzlies commentator Brevin Knight and Grind City media contributor Michael Wallace, and the topics discussed will cover Memphis-specific issues, like crime in the city.

“This is about celebrating Dr. King’s life, his work and what he’s done,” said Noelle Trent with the National Civil Rights Museum. “King Day is a birthday party, and we should be excited, happy, and be celebrating the life of Dr. King.”

The novel begins 10 years from now, as most of the characters are afloat on vessels headed for Memphis, escaping a biblical rain that has submerged Nashville and a large swath of Tennessee.

Tourists join Memphians outside the gates of Graceland, paying their respects to the King of Rock ‘n' Roll’s only child: “She was the daughter of a legend...”

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The Daily Memphian captured Lisa Marie Presley’s last appearance in Memphis, and five days later, photographer Mark Weber was at Graceland, where fans remembered the daughter of the King of Rock and Roll. 

While the Elvis estate is overseen by a separate company, Lisa Marie Presley had been the sole owner of the mansion and its grounds, inherited after her father’s 1977 death.

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Last Sunday’s NFL Countdown featured a mini-documentary on Dallas Cowboys running back and Memphis native Tony Pollard, whose family owns Pollard’s Bar-B-Que.

After news of Lisa Marie Presley’s death spread, people around the world offered their condolences.