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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...

KJ Schumacher is a multidisciplinary artist working in Nashville, TN. He received a B.A. in Fine Art from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and studied at Parsons School of Design in Paris as an undergraduate. He received an M.F.A. at the Transart Institute in New York and Berlin. KJ Schumacher, Studio Visit, January 2017 (most works pictured are in progress) KJ Schumacher, Studio Visit, January 2017 (most works pictured are in progress) His praxis consists of...

Locate Arts: What has compelled you to engage with contemporary art in your life and profession? Mark Scala: My parents were both trained as scientists, but had a broad appreciation for culture, especially literature. But they also kept a library with art books, and had a few reproductions of significant works, which I thought were magical. But I wasn’t sure I had what it takes to be an artist, so started school in pre-law, but soon decided to...