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Lost Knoxville: Harlan Hambright’s Photographs of the 1970s

In Cover Stories, Visual Arts by Coury TurczynJune 3, 2015leave a COMMENT

Harlan Hambright did not purposefully set out to document the stuff of Knoxville that was about to be vanquished—mostly, he was just attracted to the city’s weird scenes and odd …

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The Lost Art of Ali Akbar

In Cover Stories, Visual Arts by Jack NeelyMay 6, 2015leave a COMMENT

Ali Akbar, or Horace Pittman, as he was previously known, died suddenly in late 2009 at the age of 64. That’s too young to die, but even so he was …

For Sale: Knox First Friday Website (and Its Attendant Headaches)

In Program Notes, Visual Arts by Matthew EverettApril 29, 2015leave a COMMENT

Steven Lareau has maintained KnoxvilleFirstFriday.com, a guide to First Friday events in and around downtown Knoxville, since 2008. He’s the first to admit that it’s not a comprehensive guide—with dozens …

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Photographer Phil Savage Finds New Ways to See Knoxville

In Visual Arts by S. Heather DuncanApril 29, 2015leave a COMMENT

For a guy who has coached U.S. junior national gymnastics teams for a quarter-century, walking halfway across the Tennessee River on a railroad bridge was no big deal. It was …

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Painter Karla Wozniak Considers the Politics and Language of the Land Around Us

In Visual Arts by S. Heather DuncanApril 1, 2015leave a COMMENT

Gaze out your car window from the passenger seat and you will see the landscape that inspires Knoxville painter Karla Wozniak. You’ll see it. But you probably won’t notice it. …

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