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Paul Rudolph-designed Wallace Residence, Athens AL, 2020
NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting its first-ever major museum exhibition dedicated to the work of Paul Rudolph (“Materialized Space“) now through March 16th, 2025.
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is getting political, seems. Or not and they got looped in without…realizing. And if you’re like oh is it that Hank Willis Thomas billboard thing? Yes.
George Washington Carver’s incredible blue.
George Washington Carver diorama of him in lab at American Village in Montevallo AL, 2022
Fraser Smith’s Olive Tallit at the Mississippi Museum of Art, from a visit last year. I messaged with him this week, and he’s done a series — six of these in 2007.
Lonnie Holley’s newest album, Tonky, coming out in March, will include a track with Joe Minter
from a visit to LV Hull’s home in 2009
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has added the L.V. Hull Home & Studio in Kosciusko, Mississippi and 18 other sites in the US to its Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS) membership network. Ohters in the south in this round: the Beer Can House in Houston, and Pope’s Museum in Ochlocknee, Georgia.
The Crystal Bridges exhibit, KAWS: Family opens March 15
The exhibition takes its title and thematic jumping-off point from the sculpture titled FAMILY (2021), which brings together four of KAWS’ characters posed in the style of a family portrait. As witnessed throughout the show, the relationships between the figures can be complex, familiar, and astonishingly heartfelt entryways into human emotions.
The Eudora Welty Library in downtown Jackson, Mississippi — which has been in serious disrepair for years — will be town down and the space made into a park. A location for a rebuilt library has not been set and the library’s holdings will be in storage.
At Rooted:
Mississippi Native: Curtis Wilkie
“[Willie Morris] would write me letters and say, ‘It’s time for you to come home, boy.’ I eventually did.”
The home of the late artist George Dunbar is on the market in Louisiana
Thanks to the Super Bowl coming to New Orleans, apparently:
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George Rodrigue, We Stand Together, at the Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA, 2016 visit
“Rodrigue: Before the Blue Dog” is on view at the Cabildo through Sept 28, 2025 Last year at the Carnegie Arts Center in Decatur AL we got to see ‘The River is the Road: Paintings by George Rodrigue‘ (for whatever reason, the Carnegie doesn’t allow photography of its hosted exhibits) with its emphasis on the river theme in his paintings.
The LPB documentary Blue: The Life and Art of George Rodrigue extended trailer
The Washington Post: The Best Artworks of Our Time are in Video and they ofc mention Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors which was at the Frist in Nashville in 2016 and yes.
This $3.5M 1851 Greek Revival on the market south of Natchez retains its punkah over the dining room table
From a 2008 visit
Was fun to see my pic of Clayton, Alabama’s whiskey bottle tombstone in this article on the Encyclopedia of Alabama
The American Library Association’s Literary Landmarks by State listing is here.
Dedications have included homes of famous writers (Tennessee Williams, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, William Faulkner), libraries and museum collections, literary scenes (such as John’s Grill in San Francisco, immortalized by Dashiell Hammett, and Willa Cather’s Prairie near Red Cloud, Nebraska), and even “Grip” the Raven, formerly the pet of Charles Dickens and inspiration to Edgar Allan Poe and now presiding (stuffed) at the Rare Books Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
You can actually still go and see Grip.
Interestingly, one landmark was rescinded: Beauvoir.
Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World. Covered windows, peeling wallpaper: For the first time outside of Amsterdam, an exhibition reconstructs Anne’s hiding place during the devastation of the Holocaust.
The Louvre is a lot to deal with right now.
At Burritt on the Mountain, from a 2023 visit
From Daily Yonder: The Little Known History and Disappearing Architecture of Rosenwald Schools
Over the next three and a half years, Feiler photographed 105 of the approximately 500 surviving schools. He began with a mostly architectural interest, capturing exterior and interior images of the clapboard and red brick structures. He soon realized that while the buildings were interesting, the story was much richer when the voices of former students and their families were included. As a result, his book and exhibit, both called, “A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America,” integrate portraits and images of facilities. Each is accompanied by a short narrative explaining intersections with critical moments in history, like the Trail of Tears and the Great Migration.
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