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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

Street Art

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By Joe Nolan
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Features It’s the middle of summer and the low ebb of the gallery-going season, but a handful of exhibitions closing out the dog days are worth braving the humidity. From a unique local perspective on development and demolition to displays by veterans and artists who’ve experienced homelessness, these shows all avoid the floral clichés of warm-weather commercial curation to ask tough questions and offer unique perspectives on our neighborhoods and our neighbors.
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Spider-Man saves the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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By Joe Nolan
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Features At the beginning of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the world has forgotten that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Peter asked Doctor Strange for a favor that cost him everyone he loved. I’m addressing viewers who might be playing catch-up with the webslinger because of superhero fatigue and the general falling off of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the golden age of Favreau and Downey Jr. gave way to the era of Mickey and Goofy.
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Critic's Pick — Benjy Russell: 'Dreamscapes'

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By Joe Nolan
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Benjy Russell is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist who blends photography, sculpture, set design and land art into images that document physical moments of constructed wonder. Russell eschews digital manipulation, preferring midcentury Hollywood lighting techniques, filters and mirrors to achieve in-camera effects. He handcrafts his interventions in the landscape over extended periods.
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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