The Met’s new exhibition, ‘Past Continuous,’ pairs abstract expressionist Lee Krasner with her more celebrated husband, Jackson Pollock. Thankfully, the museum succeeded in not subordinating her to Pollock’s lasting fame.

Coulter Fussell, a diner waitress turned artist, makes her kids’ Snapchat messages into art. In a storefront studio on the main street of her small town of Water Valley, Mississippi, Fussell turns donated fabric, photographs from her father, and her kids’ videos of fireworks, lake jumps and pick-up truck hijinks into complex textile works of…

Amy Sherald, the Columbus-born artist who painted former first lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait, is on the inaugural TIME100 Art list and is the first living painter to appear solo on the magazine’s cover in 50 years. Sherald remembers being one of only several Black students attending a private school in Columbus. According to the National Museum of Women in…

Paul Pierce, retired producing artistic director of the Springer Opera House, grew up in Rome, Georgia, but his family ties to southern Georgia stretch back seven generations. Pierce’s ancestors moved to Georgia after purchasing land through the 1827 Land Lottery, an act which redistributed native people’s land to settlers. When Pierce moved to Columbus to…

A exhibition of Columbus native Coulter Fussell’s art, “The Proving Ground,” her first museum-organized retrospective, is now open at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia and will run until Jan. 3, 2027.

Coulter Fussell turned a Tupelo, Mississippi, mall T-shirt, beaver tails and a clogger’s petticoat into an entire exhibition, and now it will be displayed at the Columbus Museum. “The Proving Ground,” her first museum-organized retrospective, opens this weekend and will run until Jan. 3.