Arts

Chill out this July with Southern-inflected series, movies, and podcasts

G&G staff and contributors pick their favorite new novels, bold memoirs, and beach reads, plus a few books to put on preorder

Odes to the late legendary author from James Lee Burke, S.A. Cosby, and more

“We’re not just a sweet little Mozart chamber orchestra”

Spine-tingling page-turners from a longtimer and a rising writer

The author’s vivid childhood makes for a captivating look back in her new book

Alabama baker Tori Johnston gathered art, fabric, and wallpaper throughout Montgomery to fashion a tiny dreamhouse

Standout series, movies, and podcasts to tune into in June

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

How a downtown loft became the ideal launchpad for a young artist with old-world style

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

An auction co-curated by tennis star Venus Williams helps the High Priestess of Soul live on

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

G&G readers share their treasured book repositories and reading nooks around the South

An auction shares the fantastical retro artwork of Suzie Zuzek

The author of Big Fish reaches hard-wrung reconciliation in a new memoir

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