By Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga for KCUR

Discover Columbia, Missouri: A tapestry of culture, cuisine, and nature beyond the campus.

By Kathie White for Artnet.com

My Thomas Hart Benton painting. What is something small that means the world to you? Handmade gifts from friends.

For The Joplin Globe

Now is summer. The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which features galleries of historical and contemporary art, architecture, nature, cuisine and drink, and more, should be taken into account as you prepare for your summer vacation.

There is no charge for general entry to the museum, which is open Wednesday through Monday but closed on Tuesdays. The Momentary, a branch campus for contemporary arts, is also open to visitors without charge.

By Bill Eddleman For KRCU Public Radio

Prior to 1932, artists in the Midwest had to travel a great distance to attend an art colony. These get-togethers were seasonal affairs that typically gave artists time at a location of natural beauty or interest where they could learn from and connect with other artists. Provincetown, Massachusetts and Taos, New Mexico were two locations that once had artist colonies.

By Mark Sebastian Jordan For Knoxpages

June has arrived in the area with some much-needed rain after a dry May with little to no exciting weather.

When violent storms with a strong branch that stormed across Knox County's eastern portion passed into north central Ohio on Thursday evening, it went up a notch or two.

These storms brought to mind a storm from the distant past that I came discovered when perusing old newspaper archives: the storm of June 5, 1858.

At the time, Ohio had only been a state for 55 years; most of Knox County's inhabitants arrived later. Any of those people could recall no storm being worse than it was.

By CJ Coombs For Newsbreak

The 155 S. Main Street location houses the historic Fredericktown United States Post Office. In the years 1936–1937, Main Street in Fredericktown, Missouri (Madison County). Despite being an old structure, it is still standing and hasn't been destroyed.

Southeast Missouri, in the Ozark Mountain foothills, is where Fredericktown is situated. 4,274 people are anticipated to live in Fredericktown by 2021. Additionally, Madison County's county seat is there.

By Abby Remer For The Martha's Vineyard Times

"Martha's Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties: Radicals and Rascals," a new book by Thomas Dresser, is firmly placed within the broader framework of global history. It provides us with a broad, micro/macro perspective on the ten years that occurred between the end of World War I and the start of the Great Depression. The chapters, which cover subjects like the consequences of Prohibition, women's voting rights, the Red Scare, the Harlem Renaissance, immigration, airplanes, and the Spanish flu on the Island, are neither sequential nor mutually exclusive.

For Art Daily

In June 2023, Seattle will mark the tenth anniversary of the opening of Frederick Holmes And Company, a gallery of modern and contemporary art, which is located on Occidental Mall in the city's famed Pioneer Square.

Before relocating to Seattle in 2012 and launching his gallery a year later, owner Frederick Holmes, a forty-year veteran of the art world, worked as the director of galleries in California, Hawaii, and Hong Kong, as well as a national artist representative for several fine art publishers, a public speaker on the visual arts, and an art consultant with San Francisco's prestigious Weinstein Gallery.

By Ted Bojorquez For Newstalk KZRG

The annual Carver Day ceremony at DIAMOND - George Washington Carver National Monument will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 8, 2023. to 3 p.m., honoring George Washington Carver's life and the creation of a national monument in his memory.

This year, we are remembering the 80th anniversary of Carver's passing and the creation of the first national park to honor an African American, which took place on July 14, 1943. The occasion is without cost.

By Betsie Freeman For The Tennessean

According to Jack Becker, executive director and CEO of the Joslyn Art Museum, construction workers are finishing up modifications to the original building and completing a $100 million expansion that features a huge, glass-sided pavilion.

The memorial building, as Becker calls it, has undergone renovations that include new lighting, offices, and other changes that many visitors might not see, he added.

By Melinda Baker For The Tennessean

More American than baseball or apple pie, what else? It seems like the guitar, and debatably by a huge margin.

The chief curator at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Mark Scala, claimed that "Americans have a particular predilection for guitars." Most of us have really vivid memories of musical performances with the guitar, whether we play it ourselves or know someone who does.

By Chadd Scott For Forbes

Inviting.

That is the best way to describe the newly renamed and restored Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, which reopened in late April 2023 after a four-year, more than $150 million restoration.

The renovated museum has a new, airy feel. The large, cheery, and vibrant pieces of art are inspiring.

By Ian Wesselhoff For Sotheby’s

For many years, Thomas Hart Benton was regarded as one of the most well-known artists in the nation.

On his property in Kansas City's Roanoke district, he turned a carriage house into a home studio that is open to the public today. The workplace is littered with his brushes, frames, and canvases just as they were when he was alive.

For Sotheby’s

Property from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk
Thomas Hart Benton
1889 - 1975
The Station
signed Benton (lower left)
oil on canvas tacked over panel
18 by 22 in.
45.7 by 55.9 cm.
Executed circa 1929.

The Thomas Hart Benton Catalogue Raisonné Foundation will feature this piece in their upcoming catalogue raisonné. Dr. Henry Adams, Jessie Benton, Anthony Benton Gude, Andrew Thompson, and Michael Owen are the committee's members.

By Frist Art Museum For PR Newswire

NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Frist Art Museum will host the first exhibition to examine the guitar's symbolism in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present, titled Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art. Storied Strings, an exhibition comprising 125 works of art and 35 extraordinary instruments, will be on display in the Ingram Gallery from May 26 through August 13, 2023.

For London Paint Club

We visited the JC Gallery in Mayfair to see a fascinating new exhibition of lithographic prints by Thomas Hart Benton, which is on display there through May 26.

Over the course of his 60-year career, American painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton made a lasting impression on the art world by highlighting working-class neighborhoods in rural America.

For Oprah.com

Oprah's journey to Hawaii started a few years ago when her former personal trainer and property manager Bob Greene suggested that she consider purchasing property on one of the islands. Bob had been traveling to a specific area of Hawaii for 15 years in search of "the perfect spot," where he could enjoy the climate, mountains, and ocean.

He discovered it in a far-off upland area where the homes scattered across the moss-covered rock mountainside face the sea. Bob persuaded Oprah to visit a nearby property that was for sale after that. According to Oprah, "He was concerned that a developer might swoop in and buy the land and build condos."

By DAVID ALLEN For The Sun

Visitors to the Los Angeles area. Visitors to the exhibition at the Millard Sheets Art Center are almost always in for one or two surprises, which are almost always pleasant. The surprises this year begin on the outside.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere, is organizing the fair's yearly art show for the first time. The exterior of the building is decorated with a banner bearing the distinctive white-on-red logo of LACMA.

By Tanya Mohn For The New York Times

The guitar has a distinguished history on its own, but guitarists and their music—from folk singers to rock 'n' roll stars and protest songs—figure heavily in American history and culture.

"Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art," which will be on display at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville from May 26 to August 13, will examine the guitar's symbolism in American art, from late 18th-century parlor rooms to contemporary concert halls. "The guitar itself can have meaning, other than simply being beautiful or making music," said Mark Scala, chief curator.