David Burliuk’s My Wife at the Beach
Our Burliuk is small, but it fills all the space of the entry hall. He painted this while on a visit to the American eastern shoreline with his beloved wife, probably in the early 1940s. It was a time of fear and repression within Russia, so I…
It never ceases to amaze me how charity fundraisers keep coming up with new ideas. Myles Maillie and the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville brought together the creative and commercial spheres of Nashville for a special event, “Arts Build Community,” at the Sommet Center. Showcasing Myles’ unique style of “stack box painting,” local…
What characteristic do you most like about yourself?
I’m funny. Quick to laugh and slow to cry.
And what do you like least?
I wish I didn’t care so much about what people thought of me.
What was the last book you read?
Power Trip by Amanda Little. If you don’t think we’re irrevocably…
I’ve always felt lucky that at a very young age, my parents instilled in me a love for theater that I would carry with me throughout my life. I’m here today because my parents met during a 1983 production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. From that fateful day until now, my life has been filled…
Joy Ngoma is a student at TSU and majors in TV/Radio Broadcasting and Africana Studies. She has a great interest in documentary films and works with issues that address social injustice. She writes and produces for TV shows. The granddaughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, she lives with her mother, Naomi Tutu, and two siblings,
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Black, Starr & Frost Travel Clock
This antique, chased and engraved decorated silver clock is identified as Black, Starr & Frost on its sterling case and on the branded clock face of the Swiss-made movement. The clock movement marks date the movement to 1895–1905, as does the overall Edwardian Art Nouveau-style decoration of this diminutive…
photograph by Jerry Atnip
Visitors to Michael Shane Neal’s Nashville studio pass through a pristine wooden gate and enter directly into a more delicate world. Drooping heads of pink roses shiver off raindrops as the fence door closes. A stone path leads through perfectly trimmed hedges to the artist’s…
When asked about his sculpting technique, Michelangelo famously quipped, “I saw the angel in the marble and I set him free.” This insight into the sculptor’s task defines the work of the stone carver. The painter or draughtsman projects imaginative flights onto a blank canvas or paper. A stone carver must see the potential of her finished project in the raw—find form inert in something formless.
A Neighborhood Creative Spirit
Mad Platter Photo: Dean Dixon
For many Nashvillians, their first reason to venture into the Germantown neighborhood was the lure of innovative cuisine from the Mad Platter Restaurant. When Marcia and Craig Jervis opened the restaurant in 1989, the neighborhood revitalization was just getting started, and although the shining dome of…
Robin Hood, Photo: Anthony Scarlati
“Photography is all about perception,” claims Nashville photographer Robin Hood. “What does the photographer bring to the equation without all of the equipment?” Hood believes that in the art of photography the eye is more important than the camera. “I approach every subject with the eye of a painter.” Hood…
