![]() The International Biscuit Festival is May 19 this year in Knoxville winning recipes from the last two years’ bakeoffs are here.Ĭast iron skillets in the shape of each state, made by a studio in Wisconsin. Winfred Rembert, who grew up in Cuthbert GA and spent time in a prison chain gang, is today a well-respected memory artist with a solo show at the Adelson Gallery in NYC look at him now All Me:Īrchitectural Record writes about Auburn’s Rural Studio Lions Park project in Greensboro. ![]() Many of us know that Ninfa’s in Houston popularized fajitas, but there’s lots more… Traylor called his narrative works “exciting events,” and they reveal the artist as a gifted storyteller.” He used simple forms and shapes in often marvelously complex figurations. Must see: Reading Between the Lines, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh’s transparent church.ĭark Rye: Whole Foods’ online magazine, “brings together pioneers of unconventional ideas to explore the edges of the creative life.”īill Traylor artworks at the American Folk Art Museum in NYC: “Bill Traylor was a master of composition. This coming week: the Southern Literary Festival in Nashville. Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival, and the Louisiana Crawfish Festival in Chalmette. ![]() This weekend: New Orleans Roadfood Festival. Leonard Piha’s show at The Arts Company in Nashville, through April 21. It sounds as though the Alabama Music Hall of Fame will stay closed another few months and that its building and property may be sold to afford it the opportunity to move into what will hopefully be a better location/facility. ![]() Ohmygosh all the wonderfulness that will be in the new building at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans! We haven’t been since John Besh opened the Soda Shop there. I got to bring home this (it was my Valentine’s Day present!), by Yvonne Brown of Gulfport: What else was really great was the gift shop, with fabulous pieces of Mississippi pottery in particular: Knight gallery (the ‘pods’) will open, dedicated to exhibit of Ohr’s pottery. I also toured the Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center, but thought it an odd addition to the campus. Some of Ohr’s ‘burned babies’ on exhibit: The main building had these models of the architecture on display: We had to stand close together in order to be able to hear one another - although we were the only two people in a gallery that wasn’t particularly large, we couldn’t carry on a conversation at what should have been a perfectly fine distance in most other spaces.Īmong the Gehry quirks and preferences she told me about, she said that he didn’t like the walls to be littered with caption cards on the walls for each work of art, as it is in most every other museum. She’s also a fan, but the acoustics in that particular gallery were just awful. I had a wonderful talk with a docent in the other space about Newcomb Pottery, then we talked about Gehry and his spaces. I finally got to see it all (much of it is still in construction):Ī view from the top floor of the main building:īeside the building in which visitors enter, there are a couple more buildings with their own theme: This is a pic I took of the damage done to Gehry’s work-in-progress in 2005, just after Katrina: I’ve been waiting to visit the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi for a long time - both because I’m a fan of George Ohr’s pottery, and Frank Gehry’s architecture.
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