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At CNN: The Japanese photographer celebrating community in rural America

“Many people, including those who live there, sometimes associate the South with poverty and rural blight, and while it is undeniable that those things exist, what I found in Walker County was beautiful, charming and full of love.”

Instead, “Dora, Yerkwood, Walker County, Alabama” examines the human condition, employing the camera as a device to witness moments of joy and celebration, as well as quiet and tenderness. “This project changed my life and the way I see things, and this book is my love letter to the community,” asserted Nagasaka, whose care and warmth for the people she met is plain throughout.

Lusco's, Greenwood MS

The Lusco’s sign is down in Greenwood, but only because it’s being refurbished for the restaurant’s upcoming move to Plein Air in Taylor, Mississippi.

Gee's Bend Quilt, Housetop Variation with Postage Stamp Center Row, Irene Williams, Newfields, Indianapolis IN

not included, but this is Housetop Variation with Postage Stamp Center Row by Irene Williams, on display at Newfields, from a visit last year

The Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy – Gee’s Bend Quilts Auction is going on through December 13.

Lonnie Holley, Birmingham

some of Lonnie’s work in Birmingham, 2021

Art Basel with Lonnie Holley on Making Treasures from Trash and he tells the story about getting started with tombstones for family:

‘I didn’t set out to make art. I didn’t know what art was. My first pieces came about when I made a tombstone for my sister’s children, my nieces who died in a fire in 1979. My own mother had 27 children. I found some sandstone, which the iron foundries in Alabama used to make molds for metal piping, in another of my sisters’ front yards. It had been buried there, in big pieces, as landfill. It was fragile but firm enough for me to be able to work with: I used a crosscut saw that was among my grandfather’s tools to cut it down to where I could manipulate and shape it with a knife, fork, and spoon.

Chip Carter’s eulogy for his mother Rosalynn; her grandson Jason told about how she would bring a loaf of bread and Tupperware container of pimento cheese and hand out sandwiches on Delta

At the NYC: ‘Southern/Modern’: Rediscovering the Radical Art Below the Mason-Dixon Line — In the first half of the 20th century, socially conscious artists in the South were great innovators, reflecting on race, progress and the disappearing plantocracy. on the Southern/Modern exhibit going on now at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens. There is so much incredible content in this NYT piece — links back to Black Mountain College, Caroline Durieux (who must’ve lived next to Faulkner on Pirate’s Alley) and her work with radioactive ink, the Southern Agrarians, the Dixie Art Colony,

Absolutely loving the Carroll Cloar “A Story Told by my Mother” that’s included.

Georgia Museum describes the exhibit:

“Southern/Modern” will be the first project to survey comprehensively the rich array of paintings and works on paper created in the American South during the first half of the 20th century. Featuring more than 100 works of art drawn from public and private collections across the country, it will bring together a generation’s worth of scholarship. The exhibition will take a broad view of the South, considering artists who worked in states below the Mason-Dixon line and as far west as those bordering the Mississippi River. It will be structured around key themes that cut across state lines and will take an inclusive view of the artists working in the region. It will also include a number of major artists from outside the region who produced significant bodies of work while visiting. “Southern/Modern” will provide the fullest, richest and most accurate overview to date of the artistic activity in the South during this period and illuminate the important and hitherto overlooked role that it played in American art history.

Those of us who miss it at Georgia will have another chance as the exhibit moves to Nashville in January. The Frist will have it on from January 26 – April 28.

Fellow S Town listeners: Tyler Goodson has passed away.

Nudie and the Cosmic American at Oxford American (from 2016) — only the front of the suit Nudie designed for Gram Parsons, “the Sistine Chapel ceiling of cowboy attire,” is shown but here are more pics. It’s part of the Suiting the Sound exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame site.

Freedom Riders, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MS

At the Mississippi Museum of art in Jackson from 2011: Freedom Riders

This is back from Spring ’20 Panorama: The 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders’ Mugshots: A Visual Intervention

At the NYT: Mellon Foundation Doubles Funding for U.S. Monuments, Pledging a Total $500 Million — The philanthropy will add to its ongoing initiative to tell diverse stories with new monuments in public spaces over the next five years. Featured in the piece is the Memphis monument by Theaster Gates in honor of Tom Lee, who in 1925, rescued 32 people from their overturned boat in the Mississippi River.

Sending lots of love your way for a happy holiday season! xoxo!

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