Art

The first hand-carved carousel produced by one person in over one hundred years is now spinning in Franklin

The sacred music of one writer’s ancestors—and the enduring power of the Charleston church—holds space for solace and survival

The expressive New Orleans–based painter shares her favorite hometown haunts

Scrapyard materials and roadside castoffs transform into whimsical, larger-than-life characters

G&G editors and contributors shared so many stellar new novels, memoirs, and cookbooks that we lost count. But here are thirty-something selections at the top of our lazy-summer book stacks.

A chat with the fashion designer and entertainer ahead of his one-man Spoleto Festival USA show

Using his Tidewater Virginia roots as inspiration, the crime novelist has skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists with his genre-bending take on crime fiction

Mary Berry, the farmer, writer, and executive director of the Berry Center, talks about her love of place and what she has learned from her father, Wendell Berry

How @landontalks, a Mississippi art teacher turned internet star, became a noted keeper of Southernisms

How Renfrow Hardware in Matthews, North Carolina, shaped one novelist’s stories

A new exhibition shares the scarves and artwork of living legend Kermit Oliver

Leslie Charleville uses the Japanese printing method of gyotaku to preserve everything from fish to crabs to, yes, gators

Journey through the seasons in coastal South Carolina via a sleeping green anole, bunches of yellow jessamine, and wading roseate spoonbills

The painter emerged from a hardscrabble youth to become one of the most quietly successful Southern painters of his generation, embracing the trials and triumphs of his career by keeping his heart—and his art—grounded in his home state

In an open-air studio, one artist transforms tangles of invasive plants into functional objects

Next week, the coastal South Carolina town will be abuzz with fans of the silver screen

How the cafés, antiques, and community in this Atlanta suburb stole a gothic novelist’s heart

No glass separates viewers from dazzling sequins, ruffles of tulle, and whimsical headdresses from designers like Alexander McQueen, Dapper Dan, and Comme des Garcons

Paula Whyman dreamed of restoring a plot of land in the Blue Ridge Mountains—and found fertile ground for a memoir

Savvy booksellers are stepping up to satisfy readers’ cravings for spicy stories