Lyfe is Dope is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its Jam Sessions. Founded by Damien Woods (AKA DJ Dnyce) and bassist David Parks, the production and clothing company’s annual showcase features DJs, musicians, visual artists, filmmakers and dancers.

When Tonya Dyson was little, she recalls, grandmothers were the protectors of the neighborhood. They would be there when the school bus pulled up at the end of the day and would keep a watchful eye until suppertime, making sure all the little ones were safe and cared for.

With Memphis River Parks Partnership’s $1.6 million transformation of Mississippi River Park comes an adult-sized treehouse, birdhouses and oversized bird nests, meant for humans, rather than fowl.

More than 60 Memphis artists call South Main Artspace Lofts home.

A new art gallery concept has opened in Memphis. Rather than a traditional showroom, Binder Projects is primarily an online gallery, allowing novice and long-time art collectors to browse and purchase art online.

Indie Memphis, which begins on Thursday, contains multitudes, with an endless number of films big and small, feature and doc, across multiple venues and multiple days.

Memphis’ RiverArtsFest turns 12 this year. But the festival, which will run this weekend (Oct. 27-28), will move from its usual home on South Main Street to Riverside Drive between Jefferson Avenue and Beale Street. The move is due to construction and street closures. 

The two large passenger vans stopped at Union and Front on a gorgeous morning Wednesday and disgorged more than 20 architects from around the U.S. and world as well as Tennessee and Memphis.

Last September, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas gave Memphis College Art’s Downing Pryor Lecture.

A "great achievement in museum design." That is what the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art leaders are telling architects they want for the museum’s future home overlooking the Mississippi River in Downtown Memphis.

The Urban Art Commission and City of Memphis have selected Memphis-based artist Desmond Lewis for a new public art project in Orange Mound.

Typically, an object brought to the Metal Museum’s Repair Days is interesting because of the story behind it, rather than the object itself.

Memphis art connoisseurs interested in the intersection of printmaking and social issues are in luck this fall. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is presenting three exhibitions examining political printmaking.

The main artifact for a new exhibition at Crosstown Arts is Isaac Hayes' 14-foot-long, custom-made, red velvet office desk complete with white Formica top. Previously, the desk had been in storage for more than a year, after the Stax Museum of American Soul Music recovered it from the owner of East Nashville vintage boutique, The Hip Zipper.

On Saturday, the Brooks Museum of Art will be active inside and out. The work of renowned Barcelona sculptor and artist Jaume Plensa will make a Memphis debut as his “Talking Continents” exhibit opens to the public. Meanwhile, a secretive, week-long “Outings" project installation from French artist Julien de Casabianca will begin at parts unknown across the city.

Kevin Box grew up folding paper airplanes and paper making and wound up studying graphic design. But he decided he wanted to do sculpture.

A “junt” could be any variety of things.