The bricks and mortar of rock and roll’s foundation are in no danger. Neither time nor weather can wear away the security of Memphis’ music history. It is carefully guarded by an army of conservators under various banners including Stax, Sun, Elvis Presley Enterprises. These curators hold not only the keys to Memphis’ past, but are an [...]
There are two pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. which quietly speak to the price he paid to push against the status quo. The first depicts a 27 year-old King sitting for a mugshot after his arrest in 1956. He’d been participating in the Montgomery bus boycotts as an emerging thinker, protester, and leader in [...]
More often than not, if one describes an artist’s work as “social” or “political” the end result is simple propaganda. There’s nothing left for the viewer to explore or discover – the work is simply a biased view of life, posing all of the questions as well as the (supposed) answers to them. The show [...]
The Winter Olympics contained sports unfamiliar to many people. So the idea of coming up with a back story for the athletes was remarkable. These stories draw the viewer in and establish a human connection to athletes from all over the world. As I prepare to leave the house for a visit to the Greenlaw [...]
