Health Populi March 28, 2025
As Thomas Jefferson reminded us, travel makes us wiser…but less happy.
And so it is when you confront a piece of art that makes you stop in your tracks, swim in it, and know what it’s saying in terms of what you know you know.
Such was the case yesterday during a walking meeting through the Frist Art Museum in Nashville when I passed by this quilt, a multimedia work titled “Still Life in Need” by Lee Colvin, a local artist.
This work was part of a juried exhibition at FAM, “Enough to Go Around,” serving as a companion show to two other exhibits in the museum: Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism, and...