Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero | A Force of Nature
Giancarlo Guerrero stared at his computer with growing alarm. It was 5:30 in the morning on December 1, and Guerrero, an early riser despite the nocturnal nature of his job as music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, was going …
Jeff Rymer | In Reflection
It was designed to be a classic modernist white box, the Rymer Gallery. The idea was to create a white-on-white-on-white space for showcasing contemporary art, but the results are anything but cold and sterile. An exposed brick wall, deep russet …
Art Around | Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio shook up the art world of his day (Counter-reformation italy) with his masterful use of chiaroscuro and dramatic staging of biblical scenes in settings familiar to his audience. Though he relied on the patronage of church …
ArtHouse | Robin Rains: The Beautiful Essence of High Style
The delightful blond girl from Byrdstown, Tennessee, dubbed “Most likely to Succeed” by her classmates at Pickett County high school, has lived up to that senior superlative. Robin Rains, now a Nashvillian, is a nationally known interior designer with clients …
ArtHouse | OSHi Flowers
“To master the placement of flora and enhance the integrity of horticulture.” An eloquent business motto, also a poetic mission statement, one that Perri Crutcher, owner of Oshi International Floral Décor Studio, believes in. He comes by his soulfulness naturally …
Looking at the Hot Pink Tree | The Art of Danielle Duer
Danielle Duer’s paintings surround and engulf her. Her world is changing, she says, her life refining itself. She is more focused, directed, tighter, stronger, the painted faces more numerous now than ever. She regards them, and they her. They are …
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