Drifting through some upstairs rooms at Redeemer Church on Highland Avenue at 17th Street, you’ll find plenty of items you’d expect to see in children’s Sunday school: washable markers, colored pencils, heaps of fabric scraps. But these rooms are occupied ...

Walter Haskell Hinton was one hell of a salesman. A magazine illustrator working in the waning years of the Golden Age of Illustration and the decade or so following it, Hinton was good, and he was prolific. And currently the ...

It’s sometimes easy to forget how much the A1 Lab Arts collective really gets done. Producing, not consigning, enough material for a new show every month, each with a new theme, no less, is about as easy as it sounds, ...

Before you see the first image from David Bates: The Katrina Paintings at the Knoxville Museum of Art, you’ll see another, older Bates’ painting from 1989. Titled “Blacktip Shark,” the painting is from the KMA’s permanent collection, and it lays ...

Fall at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery has been off to a showy start with a university-centric exhibition, Everything Shines. The gallery offers a split show that is, in fact, quite shiny: UT professor of painting Marcia Goldenstein and ...

They say you can never go home again, but you can always swing by to pick up a plaque. That’s just what the University of Tennessee Office of Alumni Affairs has made possible for Bill FitzGibbons (class of 1972) and ...

In this alternate world, body parts bloom on trees and bushes, and a unicorn is a large, horned rodent at sea in a small boat. The strangeness is not for its own sake. The absurdity is ordered, evocative, and repeated ...

The University of Tennessee’s Art and Architecture building must have been especially quiet last Thursday. Or half of it, anyway. That night at the Knoxville Museum of Art, a free public preview of its newly opened Contemporary Focus 2010 exhibition ...

The sign on the front door of the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery last Friday read “Closed for Installation,” and the windows were papered in black. But the door was unlocked (for a special preview for A1 LabArts members), and ...

The July heat may have wilted ambitions a touch on last First Friday, but a couple of one-night-only exhibitions could be found in the farther reaches of the downtown-centric night, one a multimedia show curated by local sound artist and ...

While summer blockbusters leave long lines at the theaters, they have long left the museums behind. But there is a big-name (though far from a greatest-hits) show this month at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery. It’s not a traveling ...

The first thing you need to know about the documentary photography exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art is that it’s big: two galleries stuffed with black-and-white photographs of scenes of life and poverty in the American South from three ...

A quick survey of the University of Tennessee 2010 Honors Exhibition at the Ewing Gallery reveals, unexpectedly, a sampling of recent movie trends—3-D glasses, torture porn—and like those tools of the trade, if the work of the graduating class doesn’t ...

If the Hudson River School painted landscape as a manifestation of God, the works on display at the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Uncertain Terrain: Selections from the KMA Collection portray landscape as a reflection of man. Though the human figure ...

Jessie Van der Laan's work is free-form and intuitive, involving monoprints along with sewing, drawing, and sculpture. Van der Laan has previously worked at installation scale. For this show, in an intimate space, Van der Laan offers a selection of ...