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Joe Nolan is an intermedia artist based in Nashville, TN. His diverse practice includes photography, multimedia paintings, public radio poetry broadcasts, live performances, musical releases, public projects, and his critical writing about art and film. His writing has appeared in Art in America, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Flaunt, Nashville Scene and more.

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Fragile Figures: Beings in Time at 21c Museum Hotel in Nashville, TN

Fragile Figures: Beings in Time at 21c Museum Hotel in Nashville, TN

21c Museum Hotel (Nashville) September 2019 through January 2021 The smartphone selfie is the most ubiquitous…

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Kevin Guthrie's Work Is as American as Beer, Baseball, and Watergate

Kevin Guthrie's Work Is as American as Beer, Baseball, and Watergate

artist who draws portraits of pop-culture heroes and villains with pencil and crayon on the inner side of fla…

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Orrall History: Artist Robert Ellis Orrall's Collaborative Farewell

Orrall History: Artist Robert Ellis Orrall's Collaborative Farewell

Music Row's long history of commercial country hits is synonymous with many icons recognizable by just their …

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Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and his Art

Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and his Art

ADVERTISEMENT I heard the word aesthetics defined as, "the philosophy of beauty" for the first time sitting a…

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Critic/Ally: Remembering Nick Tosches

Critic/Ally: Remembering Nick Tosches

Joe Nolan is a 21st-century Renaissance man. He's a poet, singer-songwriter and intermedia artist - as well a…

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The Frist's New Lange Exhibit Illuminates the Work of a Social-Art Pioneer

The Frist's New Lange Exhibit Illuminates the Work of a Social-Art Pioneer

©The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, gift of Paul S. Taylor The name Dorothea La…

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Articles

Critic's Pick — Paz Suay: 'Anew: Elementary and Secondary Practice'

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By Joe Nolan
| Nashville Scene Verified
Valencia-born, Nashville-based artist Paz Suay brings a quietly rigorous sensibility to her first Nashville solo show at Coop Gallery. Anew is rooted in Suay’s background in architecture, art education and the sun-blasted Mediterranean landscape of her homeland. The exhibition reflects Suay’s interest in the visual alphabet and her background as a graphic designer.
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Critic's Pick — Wayne Brezinka: 'A Sound Energy'

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By Joe Nolan
| Nashville Scene Verified
Nashville artist Wayne Brezinka’s playful, textured collage art melds multimedia combinations of objects and materials into an aesthetic that nods to Red Grooms while also celebrating the visual kitsch of tourist caricatures. It’s a style that might come only from Nashville, and it’s earned Brezinka a national reputation as an illustrator in publications from The New York Times and The Washington Post to Politico Europe and the Los Angeles Times.
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‘Afterlife’ Is an Ambitious Indie Art Production We Can’t Wait to See

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By Joe Nolan
| Nashville Scene Verified
The MadNest is a speakeasy-style event space in a former home in Madison. If you've never heard of it, that’s because the first rule of MadNest is not to talk about MadNest. This month, the mysterious venue will host an ambitious immersive indie art production that's part haunted house, part bereavement ritual and part amusement park built out of memories and bones. Afterlife June 11-13, 18-20 and 26-27at The MadNest. More information at afterlifenashville.com.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Profiling an amateur boxing coach

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Spider Jerusalem

What does it mean to be a journalist?

A particular and articulate point of view
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