The $1 million gift not only will expand the Metal Museum’s permanent collection, it will help the museum continue to support living artists by purchasing their works.

Each silhouette in a new public art installation in the Heights represents a Memphis pedestrian killed by a vehicle in 2020.

A billboard depicting a young girl holding melting ice cream now stands on Interstate 55, across from the Valero refinery in South Memphis. 

The mosaic, expected to be ready later this summer, is located at the Binghampton Gateway Center.

On view through Sept. 26, an exhibit introduces visitors to the couple whose home and 17 acres of gardens became the Dixon Gallery & Gardens 45 years ago.

BLP Film Studios founder Jason A. Farmer hopes to fulfill a longtime Memphis dream with an ambitious Whitehaven film lot.

“Persevere and Resist: The Strong Black Women of Elizabeth Catlett” will be at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art through Aug. 29.

Emily Ballew Neff has resigned as executive director of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the board of directors announced in a release Thursday, June 3.

A gritty block of Summer Avenue is now the scene for a public art installation that is highly unusual for several reasons.

After a year-long programming hiatus, an Orange Mound-based art organization is back. 

The pictures in “Through Darkness,” on view at the Museum of Science & History - Pink Palace, document locations that served as stops along the Underground Railroad.

A majority of the finalists from the annual art competition are Collierville High students. The works are part of a display that will hang in the Memphis International Airport for the next year.

Kim Willson is an artist and entrepreneur who grew frustrated swatting at and missing flies with the traditional flyswatter. She invented Taddy Smack, a blend of whimsy and physics that may give a positive meaning to “one-hit wonder.”

The debut of “Pour Me Another” at Brooks Museum is among several art events – indoors, outdoors, in-person, online – available to viewers April 17 and 18 in Memphis.

Carmeon Hamilton’s HGTV show will likely be a six-episode “docu-style series” that shines a light on the city from her perspective. 

Dolph Smith studied and taught at what became the Memphis College of Art. Making the ladder Tennessee’s state tool was his idea. Mr. Smith didn’t go to Nashville. But he did write a letter. 

One Germantown resident has won a prestigious national award for her watercolor portfolio.

Seven paintings from Dixon’s collection are included in an exhibition that will travel to San Antonio Museum of Art and the Brandywine River Museum of Art near Philadelphia after it leaves Memphis on May 9.

The Public Art Commission has several projects planned this year, including a new design for one of Germantown’s existing water towers.

The gallery resonated deeply with what we’re experiencing right now, outside the walls, in real time.

“Nomadland” has competition for biggest movie opening in Memphis this week. The other is Malco’s Studio on the Square, which joins the handful of other Memphis Malco theaters that have reopened over the past couple of weeks. 

The museum in Overton Park will reopen under the new Health Directive 17.

Sundance has long been the American independent film scene’s most prominent launching pad.

Eso Tolson’s work is part of Coca-Cola’s “New Year, New Hope” campaign being introduced on New Year’s Eve.

The pandemic reduced opportunities to see movies in the theater, but even the oddest, most disrupted of years produced plenty worth seeing.