Quiet Witness
bySmall works exhibition opens at Mark Bettis Gallery When David Sheldon left Brooklyn for Asheville in 2008, the outdoors quickly became central to both…
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Tradition, Unmasked
byFour new exhibitions open at Blue Spiral 1 A striped mask with orange-rimmed eyes and lips fixes its gaze in “Zebra Mask,” a painting…
Nature, Unscripted
byToe River Arts exhibition lets the landscape take the lead Mushroom spores, wasp nests, flower petals — in the hands of Burnsville artists George…
Shaping the Skyline
byAsheville Art Museum spotlights the city’s architects In the early 20th century, travel writers dubbed Asheville “the Paris of the South,” a nod to…
Holding the Fray
byArtists embrace damage, care, and repair at Penland What does it mean to mend? PERFECTION: a question of repair, opening at Penland Gallery this…
Living the Experiment
byTracing the history of performance at Black Mountain College Black Mountain College was never just a school — it was a laboratory for experimentation…
Beautiful Disasters
byIn her first solo exhibition with Tracey Morgan Gallery, interdisciplinary artist Elizabeth Alexander reimagines domestic décor as evidence of a slow unraveling. Opening August…
A Gallery of Her Own
byWhen Connie Bostic passed away in January 2024, Asheville lost a cultural firestarter. From opening one of the city’s first gay bars in the…
Back and Brilliant in Biltmore
byGrand Bohemian Gallery hosts reopening celebration After months of rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Helene, the Grand Bohemian Gallery is throwing open its…
Cut, Paste, Heal
byArt series helps community heal post-Helene When Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina, it reshaped both the land and our collective psyche. “I…