While everyone is understandably anxious to return to some form of social normality, the harsh reality of the current status of the COVID-19 pandemic demands that potential viewers thoughtfully weigh the risks versus rewards involved, not just to oneself, but…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: July 7, 2020
As indecision continues for both artists and audiences as how one can avoid exposure to the Covid-19 virus and still produce music, theatre, and art, a few are experimenting with a variety of limitations and alternative practices in order to…
KMA To Reopen July 1; Delaney/Baldwin Exhibition Extended through October
Although all corners of the American economy have been confronted with the bizarre 2020 twist on Hobson’s Choice in dealing with the ramifications of Covid-19, the arts are especially so besieged. Creative momentum lost is energy that must somehow be…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: February 4, 2020
February has arrived—and with it, one of the busiest months on Knoxville’s arts calendar. This week, particularly, is absolutely jammed with openings owing to the presence of the First Friday events. While there may be some painful decisions on what…
Opening at KMA: “Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door”
This winter and spring, Knoxville will find itself at a most remarkable and important intersection of art, music, opera, literature, and cultural education. At the center of that intersection is the life and art of Beauford Delaney, an African American…
Clothing as Metaphor – Now at the Knoxville Museum of Art: Karen LaMonte’s ‘Nocturne I’
Commissioned with funds provided by patrons Nancy and Stephen Land, the Knoxville Museum of Art has added Karen LaMonte’s Nocturne I to its outdoor sculpture collection on the KMA grounds. For the last 30 years since her graduation from the…
Review: Baroque Excitement from KSO Concertmaster William Shaub and Friends
By Alan Sherrod One of the themes that musical Baroque-ophiles love to espouse about their adored Baroque era—after the impassioned joy it produces in them as musicians or listeners—is the inspirational effect that the music has had on subsequent…
Knoxville Museum of Art Receives $40K Grant for Beauford Delaney Exhibition
As part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ recent announcement of awards granted to arts organizations across the United States, the Knoxville Museum of Art was one of several local entities receiving significant grants in support of specific activities.…
Thursday Arts Miscellany: Art/Design Openings and Shows
Above: Frank Stella (Malden, Massachusetts, 1936; lives and works in New York), Shards II, 1982. Acrylic and oil stick on etched, cut and assembled aluminum, 40x45x6 inches, Knoxville Museum of Art, gift of June and Rob Heller, 2014. © 2019 Frank…
Modernist Shell House, Bequeathed to KMA, Goes On the Market for $575K
The Knoxville Museum of Art has received a major bequest from the estate of the late William Starke Shell, a former architecture professor at the University of Tennessee. Professor Shell, who died a year ago in June, 2017, bequeathed his…