Various & Sundry

everything that doesn’t fit. Festivals, markets, restaurants, bingo games, comicons


A Guest Author Contribution:

Ambitious, Controversial, and Avant-Garde: The New TPAC Design

Earlier this spring, the Nashville Planning Department received an approval application for a parcel addressed 20 Victory Avenue, directly north of the eastern approach of the pedestrian bridge. The application, submitted by Hastings Architecture on behalf of a team of contractors, gives the public its first glimpse into the ambitious, controversial, and avant-garde plans for the new home of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Setting the Stage: The East Bank Over the last few years, a collection of government entities and private developers have been collaborating on plans for what will become the East Bank neighborhood. The area, identified asRead More

Welcoming Spring in Color: Holi Festival Returns to Cheekwood

The annual Holi celebration returns to Cheekwood Estate and Gardens on March 28, inviting the Nashville community to welcome spring through the Indian holiday. The fifth annual festival runs fromRead More

Sculpting Absence and Hearing Silence

Karen LaMonte’s Interventions at Cheekwood

In her latest exhibition, Interventions, at the historic Cheekwood Estate, Karen LaMonte engages in a profound ontological inquiry into the nature of the human figure. By rendering the body throughRead More

Vanderbilt presents Seeds from Svalbard: a collaborative project

In summer 2025, Vanderbilt faculty Jana Harper, Lutz Koepnick, and Jonathan Rattner journeyed to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic that often appears in headlines as either a climateRead More

Jodi Hays: The Giant Amongst Us

Jodi Hays is a giant living amongst us—not because she’s big or loud like me, but because her work is smart, expansive, and somehow keeps getting better every time youRead More

Jazz Beat — February

This Month’s Highlights Here are the performances this month that I have picked out as really special, ones you won’t be able to catch any day of the week. TheyRead More

18th Annual Middle Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition Returns to the Parthenon

The Parthenon will once again host the Middle Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition this winter, presenting selected works by middle and high school students from across the region. Now inRead More

The Invited Editorial:

Rebuilding Trust, Reimagining Access: Metro Arts in Transition

(The following invited editorial was written by Darius Barati, the Public Information Officer at Metro Arts: Nashville Office of Arts and Culture at the request of the editors at MusicRead More

The Artist's Mental Rolodex

Amber Lelli on Memory, Material, and Making

In Amber Lelli’s world it seems that sculpture is a conversation—between idea and material, intention and accident, solitude and community. Her works, whether monumental, public commissions or smaller studio pieces,Read More

at David Lusk Gallery through November

Red Grooms and the Creation of the Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel

In most of the country, when people think of Red Grooms, they think of New York—his sprawling cityscapes, bustling figures, witty cartoon-like environments, and his “sculpto-pictoramas” that hum with ManhattanRead More

in the day...

William Edmondson: Faith, Form, and the Poetry of Stone Celebrated at WEFEST

William Edmondson
On Saturday, October 25th, Nashville celebrated its annual William Edmonsdson Arts & Culture Festival at the artist’s Homesite Park & Gardens. The festival honors the enduring legacy of its namesake,Read More