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Arts & Culture
A Southern Dollhouse You Have to See to Believe
Alabama baker Tori Johnston gathered art, fabric, and wallpaper throughout Montgomery to fashion a tiny dreamhouse

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Southern Streaming: Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Diggin’ on TLC, and Vroomin’ Vintage Cars
Standout series, movies, and podcasts to tune into in June

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Meet the Muralist Covering the World’s Walls with Honeybees
Matt Willey set out to paint fifty thousand bees—starting in the South—and learned some lessons about the good of the hive

homeplace
A Birmingham Painter’s Light-Filled Perch
How a downtown loft became the ideal launchpad for a young artist with old-world style

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Shucked Offers a Cornfield of Laughs and Southern Stars
Why everyone’s raving about the Tony-nominated musical sensation

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A Can’t-Miss Show from Lonnie Holley, One of the South’s Most Powerful Artistic Voices
A North Miami museum presents If You Really Knew, the South’s first comprehensive exhibition of works by the Alabama visionary

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Saving Nina Simone’s Childhood Home in North Carolina
An auction co-curated by tennis star Venus Williams helps the High Priestess of Soul live on

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Fine-Feathered Etchings
Florida birds fly to life in John Costin’s prints

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Step Into Nigel Parry’s Sensory-Rich Southern Landscapes
Mysterious, hazy, awash with color—Parry’s latest show, Portraits of Landscape, captures the momentary magic of South Carolina waterways on film

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Sharing the Brilliance of Black Southern Art
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

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Readers’ Choice: The South’s Best Independent Bookstores
G&G readers share their treasured book repositories and reading nooks around the South

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A Lilly Pulitzer Artist Finally Gets Her Due
An auction shares the fantastical retro artwork of Suzie Zuzek

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Daniel Wallace Reckons with His Real-Life Idol
The author of Big Fish reaches hard-wrung reconciliation in a new memoir

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A New Look at William Eggleston’s Southern Landscapes
A huge new coffee table book, The Outlands, dips into the photographer’s unseen archive

Travel
Atlanta’s Surge of New and Revamped Art-Inspired Hotels
Eight hotels where creativity comes to stay

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The Confidence of a Southern Auctioneer
Christie’s ambassador and author Lydia Fenet on her favorite dress, swimming with alligators, and the Southern treat that keeps her New York friends up at night

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Southern Streaming: A Jason Isbell Doc, a Louisiana Pilot Hero, a Texas Thriller, and More
Ten great series, films, documentaries, and podcasts to tune into this April

Land & Conservation
Louisiana’s Paragliding Photographer
From his perch in the sky, Ben Depp snapped these hauntingly beautiful images of the disappearing Gulf Coast

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Vessels of Hope: Youths Embrace the Ancient Art of Wooden Boatbuilding
In Virginia, the Alexandria Seaport Foundation offers a safe haven and supportive community to teens

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Why Foxfire Still Resonates
A new book—and a new oral history project—highlight the rural women whose stories continue to shape Appalachia