Art
Joy and Terror Coexist in Vian Sora's Unsettling Paintings
The capacity to reside in joy and terror in equal measure gives Sora's paintings their unsettling power, a brutal acknowledgment that creation coexists with destruction.
Kentucky
Art
An Artist Goes Home to Her Appalachia
The paintings that form the heart of Ceirra Evans: It’s Okay to Go Home offer a more complex and generous response to the stale and sneering stereotypes of Appalachia.
Art
The Graceful Instability of Kiah Celeste’s Art
Celeste’s sculptures all rely on natural forces to achieve balance, and thus are perpetually on the precipice of collapse.
Art
Together in Peace and Protest
Not all of the scenes Dianna Settles paints are pleasant, but that seems to be the point: for better or worse, we are undeniably yoked in our collective experience of being human.
Art
Bearing Witness to Breonna Taylor’s Life and Death
There are many in Kentucky who wish to get beyond the Breonna Taylor tragedy, but Amy Sherald’s magnetic portrait of Taylor insists otherwise.
News
Kentucky Will Raise Its First Statue Honoring a Woman, Nettie Depp
In 1913, Depp became the first woman to be elected as Superintendent of Barren County School. Her complicated legacy will be honored with a monument next August.
Art
Painting’s Divided Legacy
There are artists who paint, and those who use paint.
Art
There Is Nothing United About the United States or the Art World
Peter Williams doesn’t make things easy for the viewer, and why should he?
Books
When Will Ralph Eugene Meatyard Get the Retrospective He Deserves?
Meatyard’s use of masks, shadows, abandoned houses, and figures in motion open up a deep and multi-layered place of feeling that we have yet to fully address.
Art
Aboard a "Life-Size" Replica of Noah's Ark in Rural Kentucky
WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. — What’s 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, 51 feet high, and made of 3.3 million linear feet of wood?
Art
Reverend, Collector, and Unlikely Tastemaker: The Story of Al Shands
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Long before Reverend Al Shands bought his first contemporary artwork, he founded an Episcopal church that met weekly at a Washington, D.C. seafood restaurant. “I find the wholesome, institutional nature of the church rather boring. But I do not find religion boring. To pray, I