No other city in the world celebrates the six-string like Nashville, Tennessee. On every street corner, dive bar stage or Music Row writers’ room, somebody is plunking out a tune. Because of its sound, size, and portability, the guitar has inspired both professional musicians and casual players. Here in Music City, we have access…
Sophisticated style, art treasures from around the world, and sublime appointments create a wonderful setting in this Green Hills home. Every piece of furniture, artwork, and hardware has been especially chosen for this spacious residence. Designed by the esteemed designers of Smythe & Cortlandt, this superb blend of contemporary, traditional and the unique conjures up…
Stephen O. Sumney’s
A Deeper Understanding of Nothing Tastes Like Everything Else
by John Scarpati, Photographer
Pretty early on, I was hitting lots of openings around Southern California. I always enjoyed being part of that scene, and it was a great source of inspiration. But the idea of actually owning any of the work…
Whitney Ferré is an artist, teacher and author, but when you start to peel back the layers, you begin to unveil both the complicated woman and the woman with the amazingly uncomplicated theory. My journey with the Chicago native began in the late 1990s as she was making her debut on the national television…
Opening March 6, the Tinney Contemporary gallery will feature new works by Lyle Carbajal that carry forward time-honored themes of his past work. Using original materials, vivid color, bold line, and found wood as his canvas, Carbajal explores the difficult transitions from youthful naiveté to the clumsiness of maturation. In a primitive…
“The only way I know how to work is by telling my truth. That is part of being a storyteller,” says Atlanta sculptor Debra Fritts. “You let the intuitive process take over, and that’s where the magic happens.”
The magic of art is something that has long been a part of Fritts’ life. She…
“I’m always surprised by the reactions to my work, but I hope everyone who sees it finds amazing eye candy in it—whether it be colors, detail, pattern or glass’ ability to suspend objects in space.” One would argue that there is more than simply eye candy in David Patchen’s breathtaking blown-glass pieces. Patchen’s pieces are…
For centuries in Europe patronage of the arts and appreciation for the artfully arranged garden were inextricably intertwined. Wealthy dilettantes enjoyed a stroll in a perfectly trimmed maze of geometric hedges or a seemingly wild tangle of delicate blooms just as much as they thrilled at the beauty of a Titian or a Michelangelo.…
The city of Edo, modern day Tokyo, Japan, experienced the rise of a new form of pop art in the period between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries. Ukiyo-e, or woodblock prints, became all the rage because their mass production rendered them affordable to a broad audience. These prints were not the…
Bill Steber clearly remembers the pivotal moment in 1992 that fueled his obsession with documenting the disappearing culture of the Delta and northeast Mississippi’s hill country.
Steber, then a photojournalist, was assigned to shoot a travel story in Mississippi. On the return home via Highway 61, he visited James “Son” Thomas, a blues musician…
