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    A viewer’s guide to the 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival

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

    By Chris Herrington October 22, 2020
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    Indie Memphis adds high-profile screenings

    “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.

    By Chris Herrington October 14, 2020
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    ‘We’re kind of like the Rolling Stones’

    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.

    By Peggy Burch October 09, 2020
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    Artist Christopher Reyes’ ‘BVOE’ is an immersive eruption of creativity, and maybe a preview of coming attractions

    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.”

    By Chris Herrington October 03, 2020
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    A documentary preserves memories of Coach Jerry C. Johnson and LOC’s 1975 national title

    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. 

    By Don Wade September 30, 2020
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    Drive-in throwbacks, emerging filmmakers highlight 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival slate

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

    By Chris Herrington September 25, 2020
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    The art shows must go on: Exhibitions stay on through pandemic

    Memphis museums reopened slowly and carefully, and shows that were expected to leave in May are still open through Sept. 27.

    Related story: Downtown art museum’s veiled design: ‘It’s exceeding our expectations’

    By Peggy Burch September 18, 2020
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    Downtown art museum’s veiled design: ‘It is exceeding our expectations’

    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.

    By Tom Bailey September 17, 2020
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    Think piñata when you see Eclectic Eye’s ‘Chucho’

    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."

    By Toni Lepeska July 15, 2020
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    Metal Museum gets recommendation as Rust Hall’s next tenant

    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.

    By Tom Bailey July 01, 2020
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    Memphis artists dominate airport’s public art competition

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

    By Wayne Risher June 17, 2020
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    Broken window theory: Local architecture firm makes protest art

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

    By Mary Cashiola June 08, 2020
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    Beauty in the middle of a pandemic

    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.

    By Erinn Figg June 06, 2020
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    Memphis College of Art celebrates final commencement via Facebook

    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.

    By Jared Boyd May 11, 2020
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    As art school winds down, what’s next for Rust Hall, Brooks buildings?

    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.

    By Tom Bailey May 08, 2020
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    Memphis airport art finalists include national names, local talents

    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.

    By Wayne Risher April 30, 2020
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    Legacy Catalog will live online long after MCA closes

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

    By Tom Bailey April 30, 2020
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    Memphis College of Art’s final creation: A prerecorded commencement

    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.

    By Tom Bailey April 30, 2020
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    Exhibition project brings conversational art to Fourth Bluff

    Tri-Star Arts, a statewide arts organization, specializes in experiences that combine local and national art. In lieu of a large opening, they are inviting Memphians to view their most recent exhibition at their own leisure, online or on a walk through Downtown.

    By Jared Boyd April 24, 2020
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    The Essential Memphis Library: Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Rainmaker’

    In 1997, Matt Damon's first starring role and Francis Ford Coppola's last major film intersected in Memphis with the third and (so far) final locally set John Grisham adapation. 

    By Chris Herrington September 04, 2024
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    Brooks Museum temporarily furloughs 29 staff positions

    Except for seven administrators and security officers, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has placed its entire staff on temporary furlough because of COVID-19.

    By Tom Bailey April 08, 2020
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    Nelson: Add Eggleston to list of Memphians who changed world

    A joint exhibition of work by the famed photographer Eggleston and Jennifer Steinkamp at the Dixon Gallery has been extended to April 5. The Dixon is closed for two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic, but currently scheduled to reopen March 31.

    By Michael Nelson March 18, 2020
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    Black sculptor’s defiance on display at Dixon Gallery and Gardens

    Art history professor Earnestine Jenkins describes Augusta Savage’s sculptures as a form of resistance to the way black subjects were represented in the last century.

    By Jared Boyd March 14, 2020
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    ‘The Banker’ gets screening at NCRM as storyline strikes chord in election

    The Apple film had a private screening with actors from the film Monday evening at The National Civil Rights Museum. Most of those involved say the story of black businessmen trying to overcome discriminatory business practices still feels familiar today.

    By Bill Dries March 03, 2020
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    UrbanArt selects Desmond Lewis for Orange Mound public art project

    The City of Memphis’ percent-for-art program will fund the project.

    By Elle Perry February 19, 2020

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