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Arts & Culture
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

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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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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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A Chickasaw Painter’s Layers of Heritage
Native American history meets Japanese techniques in the soul-shaking work of Brenda Kingery

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Kirk Henriques Scratches Beneath the Surface
Through paint, power tools, and even a mop, the multidisciplinary Georgia artist carves his own identity

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Celebrating An Eccentric Artist and His Bourbon-Loving Goat
See recent auction-winning Henry Faulkner paintings, including a portrait of his beloved goat companion, Alice

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A Georgia Artist Reframes History
Cedric Smith paints himself into the nation’s canvas

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A Visual Diary of the American South
For the master watercolorist Wyatt Waters, a trip across the region was all about the journey, not the destination

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Mississippi’s Modernist Painter Who Thought New York Had Nothing on Biloxi
The new show Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons celebrates an art friendship that extended across the country

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Pedro Diego Alvarado’s Feast for the Eyes
The grandson of Diego Rivera paints his own path to renown

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Steve Keene’s Art for All
How one of most prolific American painters got his start in Charlottesville, Virginia

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Painting in Praise of the Natural World
An interview with the New Orleans artist Ida Floreak, who finds creative inspiration on the ground beneath her feet

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Picasso Paintings Make Their First-Ever American Appearance
In St. Petersburg, Florida, the Dalí Museum debuts Picasso and the Allure of the South

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Works by William Dunlap
An extremely brief retrospective, with comments by the artist

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Wild by Nature
A child of the Lowcountry, West Fraser has risen to the top of American landscape painting by charting his own course through the untamed South

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Damian Stamer: Painting the Past
A North Carolina painter finds that you can go home again—maybe

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Ed Smith: Out on a Limb
Beauty and turmoil collide in the work of this Louisiana artist

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The Art Ambassador
William Dunlap is bold, outspoken, and not afraid to have a good time