Arts & Culture

How the Texas-born actor shaped a career that reached a crescendo this year with one of the world’s highest international film honors

Shorty Koger honors a lost art at her Oklahoma City hattery

Knocking the rust off salvaged cast-iron

How one of most prolific American painters got his start in Charlottesville, Virginia

Remembering a “Southern” original

The Charleston designer’s new women’s wear line embraces effortless cool

A pediatric neurosurgeon might have been a tad out of his element treating bugbites and wrapping sprained ankles. Turns out, summer camp duty was just the salve he needed

How a Mississippi photographer plans to resurrect the famed Mississippi folk art site

Tiny Southern towns host travel-worthy festivals and support growing arts communities

Nothing frenzies and frazzles like going on vacation

The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe found her voice thanks to one little Birmingham theater

Bladesmith Quintin Middleton’s chef’s knife pays tribute to his ancestral history

Back on tour, a Nashville author discovers that bookshops around the South are writing intriguing new chapters

Surviving Southern insects, embracing fashionable neckwear, and sharing swimming spots

In her latest picture book, Alice Faye Duncan teaches children the story of Opal Lee’s decades-long campaign to make Juneteenth a national holiday

Editors, contributors, and Southern booksellers share the new novels, fresh nonfiction, and even a couple of cookbooks at the top of their book stacks

After fifty years, his Bentonia Blues Festival is still going strong

Hillary Waters Fayle ties together embroidery and nature in her Richmond studio

Fancy digs for fowl from a North Carolina maker