A painting donated by Memphis-born artist Derek Fordjour drew a $410,000 bid to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 

Museum’s leadership expresses confidence it can a meet a proposed city deadline: Within two years, add $13 million to the $12 million it has already raised to make Overton Park its new, expanded headquarters. 

The billboard campaign to encourage civic engagement is sponsored by an arts-based organization called For Freedoms.

Currently, 68 pages from the seven volumes of the illuminated Bible, with contemporary artworks that illustrate the verses, glow in carefully lit exhibition galleries at the Dixon.

VoicesUnited created the installation in partnership with the Mariposas Collective.

Putting BVOE in the Mid-South Coliseum remains Reyes’ dream scenario. And, yes, this seems far-fetched. But let me ask you this: What Mid-South Coliseum idea isn’t far-fetched?

RiverArtsFest opened a virtual artists market Oct. 27 for nearly 150 artists who were chosen to participate in the 2020 RiverArtsFest, which was canceled this year because of COVID-19.

The Indie Memphis Film Festival will go “Online & Outdoors” Oct. 21-29 as it reinvents itself this fall because of the pandemic.

“One Night in Miami,” the directorial debut of Oscar-winning actress Regina King, will be the Memphis festival’s “Closing Night” feature, screening at the Malco Summer Drive-In Oct. 29.

David Lusk Gallery is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month with a show of work by seven artists who were in the gallery’s 1995 opening show and remain there today.

Reyes’ collaborated with more than 20 other Memphis artists to create the astounding “BVOE Quadrant 360” on the edges of Downtown Memphis. The multimedia artist launched and operated the late, lamented “Live From Memphis.”

Memphis director Morreco Coleman’s “1st Forgotten Champions,” about the life of legendary LOC coach Jerry C. Johnson and his Division III national title team, is part of the International Black Film Festival, available for online viewing Oct. 1. 

The Indie Memphis Film Festival offers a scaled-back and scattered outdoors pandemic edition this year. 

A celebratory grand reveal of the design concept had been scheduled for March 25. The pandemic and social distancing put that event in long-term limbo, but the design work has continued.

Mural's creator: "Life is often hard and challenging. Sometimes it feels like it’s chasing you with a bat, waiting to crack you down."

Mayor Jim Strickland will consider the committee's recommendation that the Metal Museum be Rust Hall's future occupant. If he accepts it, the City Council would have final say.

Memphis International Airport and the UrbanArt Commission named winners Tuesday, June 16, in the competition for public art in the modernized B Concourse.

A local architecture firm recently “lost a window” but, as they say, took an opportunity – and it quickly went viral. 

If the pandemic allows, the young artist and her family will fly to Washington, D.C., in September for a special reception and viewing of her painting on display in The Capitol.

A class of 50 graduates were honored through a prerecorded program of remarks and awards during a Facebook Live ceremony, the final graduation of Memphis College of Art's 84-year history.

The pandemic may be delaying the city's process for selecting the next users of Rust Hall and the Brooks Museum of Art building in Overton Park.

The UrbanArt Commission and a public art committee of the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority are scheduled to receive site-specific proposals for public art in the B Concourse in mid-June.

The Memphis College of Art Legacy Catalog celebrates the school's 84-year history with lots of photographs and names.

Memphis College of Art is closing and graduates its last class on May 9. The pandemic has made a difficult situation harder, forcing the college to substitute a prerecorded commencement video for the real graduation ritual.