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Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors is a hypnotic and immersive multichannel video installation of musicians performing in a historic mansion in New York’s Hudson River Valley. Combining the Icelandic artist’s interests in music, endurance, and beauty, the hour-long, nine-screen video was called “a generational masterpiece” by The Boston Globe and on is view in Nashville from November 18, 2016, through February 12, 2017. Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors exhibition, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts (November 2016-February 2017). Photo credit: John Schweikert Ragnar Kjartans...

The Central Collective opened in 2015 as a mixed-use creative space for entrepreneurship, events and engagement with Knoxville’s creative community. As part of its mission to support art and artists, The Central Collective established a gallery for established and emerging artists in and beyond Knoxville. Halitide (12/2-7/16) was an immersive, time-based multimedia installation that interrogated perceptions of time, material, and the human intellect. Using sound, kinetic sculpture, and projection, the installation sought to expose flaws in th...

The Red Arrow Gallery first began in the high-desert community in Joshua Tree, CA and gained national and international recognition. The first art gallery to open in downtown Joshua Tree in 2007, the gallery set up shop in an old building marked with a 15-foot red arrow sign (the historic landmark that served as inspiration for the gallery’s name and logo). In 2010, with the mind for expansion, the gallery moved to the heart of Joshua Tree Village and continued monthly op...

TOPS is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2012 by Matt Ducklo located at 400 S. Front St. in Memphis, TN. An Attitude You Can Wear by Haynes Riley will be on view through Saturday, August 27. "Using both found and constructed forms Riley's individual art works create an environment that is both a response to the space and a product of its own internal logic. From the street, outside the gallery, the viewer can look down to the...