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. 

Works by Luther Hampton, who graduated from the Memphis Academy of Arts in 1973, will go to three museums, including Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art and Tennessee State Museum.

The festival, considered the most prestigious festival geared around American indie film, will be screening its selections this year at satellite locations, and Memphis will be one of these “Satellite Screens.”

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.