Streetwise: Masters of ’60s Photography, an exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art through Aug. 5, features images of 1960s America that remain as potent today as they undoubtedly were when they initially appeared.

For more than a decade, I’ve been reviewing the art, architecture, and design efforts of graduating University of Tennessee seniors selected for the Ewing Gallery’s annual Honors Exhibition, and not one show has been disappointing. Many pieces and projects this ...

Streetwise Knoxville, at 2 Many Pixels Gallery on Jackson Avenue through June, is a striking collection of images being presented in conjunction with those at KMA's Streetwise. Taken between the mid-’60s and now, the works on display are by four ...

John Cage’s “4’33””—the non-performance in which a pianist sits idle before an audience for four minutes and 33 seconds—is directly connected to works by two of the 11 international exhibition participants. Yet the spirit of the now-iconic so-called silent piece ...

Although sophisticated crafts have long been part of our city’s springtime festivities, unless I’ve overlooked ceramic wind chimes resembling Alexander Calder mobiles on Market Square, I don’t recall fine art from past festivals being particularly modern, let alone cutting edge, ...

Viewers who have considered watercolor somewhat less substantial than other mediums should be markedly surprised by what this exhibition has to offer.

Besides exhibiting diverse subject matter in color as well as black and white, Best Photographers of 2011 reflects a range of both artistic development and technical skill.

Mention Japanese printmaking and Hiroshige’s iconic depiction of a wave comes to mind, if not scenes of Mount Fuji and pagodas in the rain. However, to consider Hiroshige’s almost-200-year-old image the epitome of all Japanese art would be akin to ...

It’s not every day that a person can stroll down Gay Street with nothing but plate glass between herself and art by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol. Works in the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery’s show ...

The stunningly colorful two-dimensional pieces exhibited—primarily produced by Russian monks and dating as far back as 1590—really do suggest somewhat altered states.

All the artists in After the Fall are men, and almost all are in their 30s, born during Soviet domination.

Whether induced by peyote or Bernini, altered states have apparently been sought by humans beings since their beginnings, and Sanford Wurmfeld’s remarkable exhibition Immersed in Color: E-Cyclorama offers yet another way to transcend everyday reality.

An exhibition of McClintock’s photography opening tomorrow includes subject matter viewers might find hard to understand or accept.

For the most part, I view labeling tremendously diverse groups of people as ignorant, if not offensive; when it comes to art, it’s often simply irrelevant.

While the fall’s colors riot outside, Knoxville’s intrepid gallery and museum curators are planning feasts for the eyes indoors.