The Memphis Scene

Dwayne Butcher has all the details you need to know before Friday's Broad Avenue Art Walk. As Paul Ryburn points out, it's similar to the South Main Art Trolley Tour, though in a much different setting. Broad still has a nice amount of urban grit, no fashion boutiques, and a great cocktail spot (The Cove) -- not to mention an experimental performance venue (Odessa).

Artist Suzy Hendrix opens an exhibit of kiln-fired enamel bugs on glass Friday at the Goner Records shop in Cooper-Young. The exhibit is called, naturally, "Buggery." A group called The Humper Show, featuring Hendrix on saxophone (she has played over the years with American Death Ray among other bands), provides the music. (6 to 9 p.m.; free admission.)

* Rootsy Memphis band Giant Bear plays on the terrace at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art on Thursday, May 22. Enjoy the nice view of Overton Park and enjoy some country-rock flavors -- with cello, of course. (8 p.m.; $8 for members, $10 for non-members.)

* An overview of the career of pop-art icon Andy Warhol opens June 14 at The Brooks. "The Prints of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)" is one of a number of worldwide events being held during the 2007-08 commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the artist's death. Here's more information fresh off the press release ...

Organized by Margery King, associate curator at The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this exhibition has continuously opened to rave reviews and has meant record-breaking attendance at the host museums and galleries all over the world. "Warhol's prints are fantastic," says King. "They aren't necessarily seen in the original as often as the paintings and they really need to be seen in person to appreciate their beauty."

Among the 63 prints and 5 paintings included in this exhibition are some of Warhol's most famous works – Jackie Kennedy, Campbell's Soup Cans, Mao, and Flowers – as well as some of his lesser-known works, such as the Hammer and Sickle series, and prints based on Italian Renaissance masters. The title for the exhibition is a play on Warhol's 1975 book, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).

Find out even more here at the ArtsMemphis site.

Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts will be the site of this year's installment of the annual Salon exhibition, brought to you by NIA Artist Collective. Salon3 is another multimedia meeting-of-the-minds of urban creative types, with music by DJ Manus, a participatory art piece, and work by a couple dozen local artists. The exhibit opens Saturday and runs through September, and an opening reception will be Friday, Sept. 7.

As with a lot of the events I post about on this blog, I found out about this exhibition from Live from Memphis. The arts-centered Web community is apparently in danger of shutting down due to a lack of funding. Read more about that here and here.

As you make your rounds of the South Main Art Trolley Tour on Friday night, check out this show. ... It's an exhibit of photographs by the lovely and talented Drue Diehl, capturing one of the Memphis music showcases at South by Southwest this past March (this showcase, actually). Some of the pictures doubtless will depict Memphians -- some of whom you may know -- behaving poorly. Some of the subjects in the pictures may no longer be welcome in the city of Austin, or in the entire state of Texas. There could be some really historic stuff in there ...

"Catastrophe" by Joshua P. Baymiller.

Check out an exhibit of Josh Baymiller's works on paper opening this Friday at Montyshane Gallery on Young Avenue behind dish. The show is called "Beautifully Disgusting," and the name seems to fit Baymiller's pieces, which reference everything from punk-rock show fliers to comic books to Modernist propaganda posters. (7-10 p.m., Montyshane Gallery, 2160 Young)

Read more about the Montyshane, formerly Vue, in this article from a couple of months ago.

Doing its part to break down harmful gender stereotypes, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art presents "Girls Night Out" on Thursday from 5:30 to 8:30. We're talkin' shoes, jewelry, yoga, frou-frou cocktails, trashy "chick lit," hair and makeup -- the whole shebang. Nancy Apple will perform, and curator Marina Pacini will lecture on contemporary female artists. Just $10 for members, $20 for nonmembers.

Exhibits on display: Maxfield Parrish's fantasy illustrations, African-American family photographs from the early 20th Century, "Edward Curtis and the American Indian," and digital images from emerging local female photographers.

An opening reception for "Pattern Recognition: A Ted Faiers Retrospective" runs from 1 till 3 p.m. Sunday at Power House, 45 G.E. Patterson. "Pattern Recognition" is the first of two shows this spring to remember the well-known Memphis artist who died in 1985. Fredric Koeppel has more.