<strong>Dixon Gallery and Gardens preparator Jeff Goggans finishes the installation of the exhibition “El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y” on Wednesday, Oct. 10. The exhibit, which translates to "The People's Print Workshop: Life and Art," displays work from a Mexican printmaking workshop founded in 1937 with a mission of social and political printmaking.</strong> (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

The Dixon, Fogelman Galleries explore political printmaking in new exhibitions

Memphis art connoisseurs interested in the intersection of printmaking and social issues are in luck this fall. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is presenting three exhibitions examining political printmaking.

By Elle Perry October 12, 2018

Chris Herrington

Montgomery to Memphis

If you want to really know your country, Memphis is a good place to start. Artists such as Howlin’ Wolf and Elvis Presley brought American culture together and sent it around the world from a studio only steps from where a slave trader was celebrated in a city park. Martin Luther King Jr. marched for economic justice, climbed to the mountaintop, and was taken by an assassin’s bullet, all within a triangle separated by a couple of miles.

By Chris Herrington October 11, 2018

Geoff Calkins

Calkins: UCF obnoxious? Nah, just dumb.

You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers, about Memphis vs. UCF.

By Geoff Calkins October 11, 2018

Real Estate

Board approves 179-acre, mixed-use project at Colonial Country Club

A $300 million development plan that includes one of the city’s largest residential projects in the last 40 years received approval from a planning board on Thursday.

By Tom Bailey October 11, 2018

Public Safety

Lawsuit filed against city, police after man’s body was left in van for 49 days

Attorneys representing the family of the man whose body was left in a van for seven weeks at the Memphis Police Department impound lot have filed a wrongful-death and negligence lawsuit against the city of Memphis and police director Michael Rallings.

By Yolanda Jones October 11, 2018