This pre-Thanksgiving weekend brings a couple of prestige-oriented films to the big screen, alongside stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal.
CBU art professor Scott A. Carter’s new Dixon exhibit is intricate and personal, exploring themes of death, time and self through found-object and sound-making sculpture.
The Memphis Police Department is hosting a new local TV show to showcase its efforts in curbing crime in the city.
Casts created in hollowed-out spaces of volcanic ash and other artifacts from the frozen city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., are on display at Graceland starting this week.
The collaboration continues a long cultural exchange between Memphis and the small Italian town.
The 27th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival starts Thursday with potential sleeper hits, films of local interest and movies you may not see anywhere else.
A version of the “beauty and the billionaire” fairy tale, “Anora” won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival this summer and is now being touted as a top contender for a much more mainstream prize: The Oscar.
A new show at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens offers visitors the chance to see works by some of the most important visual artists from the past 150 years — for free.
CBU and U of M have new art exhibitions in November, as does Tops at Madison Avenue Park, Marshall Arts, David Lusk Gallery, and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens.
“Godzilla Minus One” works as action and drama, as monster-movie and as a metaphor for the nuclear anxiety of postwar Japan. It’s just a terrific movie, according to Chris Herrington.
The festival will include screenings of four short films. Attendees can vote for which one should receive a $10,000 prize.
Growing from a four-week summer camp, Contemporary Arts Memphis’ official headquarters provides a student gallery area and room for art instruction.
In the documentary five Memphis women are interviewed about their mental health — specifically anxiety — and how they deal with challenges.
This week’s recommendations are very much in “proceed with caution” territory. Plus, “Conclave” joins the Oscar race.
The Hyatt Centric Beale Street Memphis hotel, just up the bluff from Riverside Drive at Beale Street, will open a new exhibition Saturday, Oct. 19.
When a comedian and a playwright discovered they were dating the same guy, it was only logical they would write a screenplay about it.
One of the year’s most highly anticipated films, an adaptation of author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel “Nickel Boys,” will be the centerpiece selection of the 27th Indie Memphis Film Festival.
Memphian Craig Brewer captures “Lightning & Thunder” in his latest project about a tribute artist duo.
Chris Herrington’s pick for the best movie in Memphis this week is Mel Brooks’ black-and-white horror-comedy classic “Young Frankenstein.”
Couture Collective, the museum’s new fashion affinity group, and award-winning designer and University of Memphis fashion design professor Sonin Lee are hosts of “Come as Thou Art.”
The theme at the movies this week: New York in the 1970s, via two intriguing, high-profile new docudramas. Crosstown Theater’s Halloween movie series begins with a horror classic and a family-friendly cult favorite.
At the same time that “The Penguin” is the most promoted series on HBO, the biggest new movie on the big screens is “Joker: Folie à Deux.” But if you looking for an Oscar contender, check out “The Outrun.”
A new fund aims to help area artists through “catastrophic” emergencies that hinder their ability to perform and/or earn income.
Art shows on view in October include the Metal Museum’s Master Metalsmith, two shows at Sheet Cake Gallery and two photographers at Brantley Ellzey’s Summer Studio.
An alumnus donated 50 pairs of Nike Dunk sneakers — free for each of Delano Elementary’s kindergarten students.
It will feature 120 items from founder Fred Jones Jr.’s collection, as well as memorabilia from the five HBCUs that have participated since its 1990 inception.
September art shows have themes of abstract expressionism and minimalism, making syrup from fruit, expanding the definition of drawing, the rural U.S., video games and “ana” — slang for “animosity.”
Through Morales' lens, viewers will meet drag queens, people working at restaurants, people worshipping at church, neighborhood football players, cheerleaders and majorettes.
A midcentury building in Midtown is undergoing a transformation to become the new gallery and studio space for one Memphis museum.