The Golden Age of Couture | Paris and London 1947–1957
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Imagine a scene so foreign it seems out of a fairy tale. A woman is the center of all attentions in a fashion atelier. The room teams with life: the snip of scissors, …
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Polynesian Adze Handle
Cook Islands, Mangaia, third quarter 19th century, length 24 inches.
One of the aspects of dealing with “things” is the wonderment of how they get from point A to point B. Case in point, this Polynesian Island …
Spotlight | Temple Arts Festival
If you love spending a weekend afternoon viewing beautiful art that you can also take home, you won’t want to miss the wonderful variety of art and handcrafted works on display during the Temple Arts Festival (TAF) in Nashville the …
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by Linda Dyer | photography by Jerry Atnip
Native American Woman’s Belt with Pouch.
Northern Plains, Santee Sioux, Reservation Period circa 1920s.
Composed of glass beads, trade cloth, and native tanned hide.
This panel belt with matching pouch is one …
Cheekwood | American Impressionists
For centuries in Europe patronage of the arts and appreciation for the artfully arranged garden were inextricably intertwined. Wealthy dilettantes enjoyed a stroll in a perfectly trimmed maze of geometric hedges or a seemingly wild tangle of delicate blooms just …
Sharaku Who?
The city of Edo, modern day Tokyo, Japan, experienced the rise of a new form of pop art in the period between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries. Ukiyo-e, or woodblock prints, became all the rage because their mass production …
John Reed | A Road Through the South
Franklin Art Scene | Celebrating Color & Community
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