Southern Artists

A new book dives deep on generations of women and their artful archive of the state’s history

The Columbia Museum of Art celebrates Sergio Hudson’s decade in fashion with a new retrospective

A new exhibition at the Gibbes Museum takes a fresh look at the unsung art hero Ned Jennings

A classically trained portrait artist in London turns to birds

Austin’s Bell and Bird turns out stunning pieces inspired by the past

North Carolina sisters imbue Indian tradition with Southern flair

Mississippi artists hope to find a Broadway home for the traveling production

Painter Calida Rawles finds power in the pool

Ella West Gallery brings back beauty and energy to the historically rich Black Wall Street—and creates an anchor for fine art in the South

Alma Wallace Lesch’s textile artwork incorporated seed sacks, vintage clothing, and bags of chicken feed to stitch together a fascinating vision of rural life

Sydni Gause captures cosmos, hibiscus, goldenrod, and more Florida botanicals on silk

Matt Willey set out to paint fifty thousand bees—starting in the South—and learned some lessons about the good of the hive

Why everyone’s raving about the Tony-nominated musical sensation

A North Miami museum presents If You Really Knew, the South’s first comprehensive exhibition of works by the Alabama visionary

Florida birds fly to life in John Costin’s prints

Mysterious, hazy, awash with color—Parry’s latest show, Portraits of Landscape, captures the momentary magic of South Carolina waterways on film

The Ackland Art Museum’s latest show, Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South, wants to reframe the conversation about regional artists like Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, and Minnie Evans

An auction shares the fantastical retro artwork of Suzie Zuzek

Taking cues from her time in Charlotte, London designer Wiggy Hindmarch imbues Southern sophistication into her luxury women’s wear

A huge new coffee table book, The Outlands, dips into the photographer’s unseen archive