"One of Alabama’s most widely known and respected artists is back home. Known throughout the state and worldwide as Nall, the Troy native recently unveiled a massive mosaic, “Sunrise Pensee,” at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Convention Center. The mosaic will permanently reside at th...
Looking at history, the game of dominoes was played in social gatherings among African Americans in the South that several laws were made to prohibit the game from intruding on the separation of black and white Americans or apartheid. For instance in 1930, in Birmingham, Alabama, it was unlawf...
301 Conti Street, Mobile, AL 36602 Alabama Contemporary Art Center is a non-profit contemporary arts center located on Cathedral Square in downtown Mobile. They are committed to serving artists by organizing ten to twelve exhibitions a year!
The first posting of a new year, and finally I get to do a posting on one of the greatest photographers of all time. Nobody has ever taken portraits like JMC before or since. What a unique vision, different from everyone else: “directed light, soft focus, and long exposures that allow...
Don’t miss the festivities October 16 and 17, at 20th and Alabama Streets. Next Stop: New York Then, after that, I’d attend Three Pieces, a one-night multidisciplinary event at PPOW Gallery in Chelsea, where Color&Color, a new publication by Amanda Curreri and Erik Scollon, will be ...
“It’s the Bloody Sunday March in Selma, Alabama in March 1965.” “Ugh, you are such an opportunist!” Abbey announces. Powers looks bewildered. “What?” Kenneth is all in. “The march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge was the greatest work of American art in the twentieth century.” ...
20. Georges ravaged Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Florida Keys, and the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Some areas had totals of 1 to 2 feet of rain over two days. In the end, 602 people died, mostly in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and the ...
The show is called “Energy That Is All Around,” and it’s in the Walter and McBean Galleries. The artists whose work is on exhibit: Chris Johanson, the late Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, Ruby Neri and Alice McCarthy. Most of it was made between 1992 and 2000....
It’s interesting, when I first opened my gallery there were not too many artists on my radar whose work I was very interested in and who weren’t already showing with other galleries. So I asked my friends, “Who else do you like?”—it’s something I often do when there’s som...
Born and raised in the coastal town of Mobile, Alabama, his earliest inspiration was the landscape-the indigenous pines and oak trees, and the waters of Mobile Bay. The coastal landscape is still a major source of inspiration for him. At Auburn University, Robertson spent time studying architec...