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Museum Cancels Drag Show After Armed Protesters Show Up

Avatar photo by Billie Anania September 27, 2022October 1, 2022

Members of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys joined a group of religious parents gathered outside Memphis’s Museum of Science & History.

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Memphis Airport Reinstalls Asian Elvis Artwork After Accusations of Censorship

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie March 24, 2022March 25, 2022

The airport took the work down after it “received a lot of negative feedback from Elvis fans,” including “a small number of comments” that referred to artist Tommy Kha’s race.

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Hold Your Noses! The World’s Most Ancient Cheese Found in Egyptian Tomb

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 17, 2018

A chemical scientist discovered the most ancient solid cheese ever found inside the tomb of Ptahmes, mayor of Memphis in Egypt during the 13th century BCE.

Posted inOpinion

As Confederate Monuments Fall, Do They Epitomize America’s Illness?

by Kirk Savage December 26, 2017December 26, 2017

The recent removal of statues of Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest illuminates the many problems with the memorial landscape in Memphis and throughout the United States.

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Memphis Takes Down Two Confederate Monuments, Including Statue of KKK Leader

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton December 21, 2017December 21, 2017

The city sold two parks to a nonprofit, allowing it to remove the statues of Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest.

The main building of the Memphis College of Art (all photos courtesy Memphis College of Art)
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After 81 Years, Memphis College of Art Will Shutter Due to Debt and Falling Enrollment

by Shelby Black November 15, 2017December 22, 2017

While many remain optimistic that the school could remain open, it would take a miraculous $30 million endowment donation to make this possible.

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Tennessee Commission Rejects City’s Request to Remove Monument to First Grand Wizard of KKK

by Claire Voon October 24, 2016October 24, 2016

Erected in 1905, the towering statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest pays tribute to the Ku Klux Klan’s first Grand Wizard.

Posted inArt

New Horizons in Road Trip Photography

by J.M. Martin September 16, 2016

MEMPHIS — The American tradition of road photography has typically captured a certain spirit of adventure, a search for unexpected beauty, oddity, maybe even enlightenment out there in the far corners of the country.

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The 19th-Century Affordable Artworks That Were the Original Carnival Game Prizes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 7, 2015December 10, 2015

MEMPHIS — Chalkware was one of the earliest affordable arts available to a large population in the United States.

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Dreamlike Drawings in a Cavernous Coal Chamber

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 2, 2015December 2, 2015

MEMPHIS — Down in a former coal chamber, accessed through a stained glass restoration studio, is Tops Gallery.

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Unwrapping the Ancient Egyptian Practice of Animal Mummification

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 6, 2015January 9, 2015

Millions of animal mummies — some elaborately dressed, others plainly wrapped — were buried by ancient Egyptians and the exact reason for the death ritual is an ongoing archaeological mystery.

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A Visit to an Overlooked Folk Art Cave of Crystals

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 23, 2013October 23, 2013

MEMPHIS — Secreted in a cemetery in Memphis is a meditative work of 1930s folk art, a man-made cave created from five tons of quartz crystal and a unique process of turning concrete to wood.

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