University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery and Downtown Gallery
Funny you should mention it — there is a theme here for the latest shows at both UT’s Ewing Gallery and the UT Downtown Gallery.
Opening on Monday, January 24, at the Ewing Gallery on the UT Campus is A Serious Look at the Funnies: 100 Years of Comics. Showing in this exhibition are 115 individual comics and drawings from the collection of noted comic artist, dealer, historian, and publisher Denis Kitchen. These items cover over a 100 years of comic history dating from 1906 to the most recent 2019 work. Noted artists from the collection are Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Peter Poplaski, Trina Robbins, Al Capp, Will Eisner, Richard “Grass” Green, and Ernie Bushmiller. Through February 28. For information on the exhibition and visiting the Ewing Gallery.
And THEN, opening on Wednesday, January 26 at the UT Downtown Gallery is Point of View: Regional Editorial Cartoons. Included in this show are cartoonists Charlie Daniel (retired Knoxville News Sentinel cartoonist), Daniel Proctor (Knoxville Freelance editorial cartoonist), Clay Bennett (Chattanooga Free Press editorial cartoonist), Marshall Ramsey, Robert Turner, Carl Sublett (1919 – 2008), former UT School of Art Professor of painting and cartoonist for the Bristol Herald-Courier, The Virginia Tennessean, and the Kingsport Press. · Ed Gamble ( UT Alum and editorial cartoonist for The Nashville Banner and The Florida Times-Union), Danny Wilson (UT Alum and Knoxville-based freelance illustrator and editorial cartoonist). This show continues through February 26, 2022.
A First Friday reception is scheduled for Friday, February 4, 5:00-8:00pm
The UT Downtown Gallery is located at 106 S. Gay Street, next door to the Emporium Center.
Regular gallery hours: Wednesday – Friday 11:00am – 6:00pm; Saturday 10:00am – 3:00pm
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Recital: Bass Kevin Burdette with Pianist Eileen Downey
The Master Arts Series at Church Street United Methodist Church welcomes Metropolitan Opera bass (and Knoxville native) Kevin Burdette along with pianist Eileen Downey for a free recital on Tuesday evening, January 25, at 7:30PM.
We’ll go out on a limb and call Burdette “the funniest man in the opera world,” his boisterous humor matched only by a rich and very memorable bass voice. Burdette recently joined the voice faculty at the University of Tennessee School of Music. The well-known Downey is also on the UTSOM faculty as a collaborative pianist. The pair will offer works by Richard Hundley, Gerald Finzi, Robert Schumann, and a world premiere piano prelude by Mikeila McQueston.
Church Street United Methodist is at 900 Henley Street in downtown Knoxville
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KSO’s Concertmaster Series –”William Shaub and Friends” – Schubert’s The Trout
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra continues its Concertmaster Series at the Knoxville Museum of Art on Wednesday and Thursday this week, January 26 and 27, at 7:00 PM.
Hosted and performed by the KSO Concertmaster William Shaub along with colleagues from the orchestra, this second installment of the season will feature Franz Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A Major, popularly known as “The Trout.” Also scheduled for this week is Jessie Montgomery’s Rhapsody No. 1, plus two by Bela Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances and Selections from “44 Duos for Two Violins”.
The Knoxville Museum of Art is located at 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive in Downtown Knoxville. Information and Tickets
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KMA: Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art
Red Flower Rain, 2017; Mixed media on panel; Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer
We’ll have more detail on this Knoxville Museum of Art exhibition, Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art, later in week, but go ahead and mark this one down on your calendars. It opens on Friday, January 28, and runs through April 24.
“The exhibition highlights the work of sixteen artists of Asian heritage who draw on a rich array of motifs, techniques, and cultural motivations to construct diverse “Asias” in a modern global context. Artists represented in the exhibition include Kwang-Yun Chun, Dinq Q. Le, Jun Kaneko, Hung Liu, Takashi Murakami, Do Ho Suh, and Barbara Takenaga.”
Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive in Downtown Knoxville
Due to Covid-19 precautions, masks are required for all museum visitors, regardless of vaccination status. Visitors are asked to register HERE before their arrival to ensure that maximum capacity is not exceeded. Admission is FREE
Museum hours: Monday—Closed; Tuesday – Saturday—10am – 5pm; Sunday—1pm – 5pm
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KSO’s Chamber Classics Series: “Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2”
There are a couple of reasons you will want to rush out and get tickets for this January installment of the KSO’s Chamber Classic Series, this Sunday afternoon, January 30, at the Bijou Theatre. First, we never miss a chance to hear KSO Associate Concertmaster Gordon Tsai in a solo opportunity. In Sunday’s concert, he will be performing the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2 with Maestro Aram Demirjian and the Chamber Orchestra.
Second, the orchestra will be performing the Symphony No. 3 of Louise Farrenc (1804-1875), a composer denied a substantial reputation as a composer by her gender in the 19th Century music world. Also on the bill will be William Grant Still’s Darker America.
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics Series
Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Downtown Knoxville
Sunday afternoon, January 30, 2:30 PM
Tickets and Information
