Jason Kendall is likely one of the few modern artists who can not only look back on a storied career as a high school jock, but also draw insp…

An organization like the South Carolina Philharmonic will always find its natural home in an ample concert hall the size of the Koger Center, …

There’s a new piece of public art in Five Points — but there’s been none of the usual publicity about it yet, because people weren’t sure it w…

When Columbia artist SaBrina Jeffcoat had the idea for a multi-artist exhibition, she didn’t fool around.

Classical music is not a genre typically associated with improvisation. As beautiful and moving as pieces by Beethoven or Mozart or Tchaikovsk…

When the University of South Carolina received 180,000 comics and books from a collector in Ohio, the school brought in Chris Foss, a 40-year …

“I want to speak in all of my languages.”

There’s an old adage from her Russian homeland that Olga Yukhno would just as soon never hear again: One person in the battlefield cannot be a…

Ed Madden dislikes restricting poems to books. 

When ArtFields first launched in 2013, the idea that a quaint, small town in the Pee Dee could be an anchor of the regional or even statewide …

If you look at his resume, Raymond Smith doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would start such an event as this weekend’s first-ever Doko Fil…

For University of South Carolina senior Allie Anderson, directing the upcoming production of Wonder of the World represents the culmination of…

When Clark Ellefson first moved into the Vista in 1980, Columbia’s old warehouse and textile district was no one’s idea of upscale or artsy.

Is it possible that one of the most groundbreaking authors in the English language has been all but erased from literary history?

If there was a sign on the door of Greg Stuart’s Experimental Music Workshop at the University of South Carolina Honors College, perhaps it wo…

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel of romance, obsession and decadence among the wealthy on Roaring ’20s Long Island, has ofte…

Annual art events tend to evolve, some more dramatically than others. 

If you need proof that ace video game players are the new rock stars, look no further than this year’s South By Southwest event in Austin, Tex…

For a writer described by reviewers as “wacko-southern,” a “raconteur,” and “America’s funniest short story writer,” George Singleton’s new co…

In some sense, the Sympatico Percussion Group is what happens when the music matters more than anything else.

As a writer, Dorothy Allison deals in brutal honesty and complex emotions. The Greenville native is the author of the searing, viscerally emot…

South Arts would seem to have an unusual challenge among its sister organizations. One of seven regional arts organization in the country that…

This spring is a season of change for the Columbia Film Society, the organization that oversees both the Nickelodeon Theatre and Indie Grits Labs. 

After a search that lasted more than a year, the Columbia Film Society has a new leader. In an email newsletter sent last night to members of …

Maybe it’s all in the name.

Tom Hall was at his brother’s wedding the first time he experienced the writing of James Dickey. Hall, a Columbia attorney, is also musician a…

The painter Michael Cassidy lives with his family on a small spread of land with a house and studio in West Columbia, just off US 378 — not fa…

A beloved icon in multiple fields, Gerald Floyd is remembered by his friends and colleagues for his warmth, charm and gentle sense of mirth.

There’s a certain behemoth quality to the ethereal works of MOMIX Dance Company, both in their ability to inspire rapture in audiences and the…

In preparation for the University of South Carolina’s upcoming production of The Wolves, cast members haven’t been rehearsing solely as actors…

On the surface, the story that author Derrick Barnes and illustrator Gordon C. James tell in the 2017 children’s book Crown: An Ode to the Fre…

The latest paintings of Columbia artist Thomas the Younger (aka Thomas Washington, Jr.) tend to be very focused pieces of work.

As the artistic director of Columbia City Ballet, William Starrett is constantly looking for new sources of inspiration for the company’s orig…

Columbia Classical Ballet’s annual LifeChance International Ballet Gala of the Stars is more than just an opportunity for the company to incre…

Early in his theatrical career, David Britt winced as a colleague spoke dismissively of the works of Neil Simon, and silently resolved, “I’m g…

Trustus Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on the novel of the same name by Mark Haddon, transpo…

Randy (whose last name may or may not be Bobandy) already had a pretty sweet life at the Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, ser…

There’s something uncanny about music made by nothing but voices. It can be one of the most fragile and lithe sounds there is, but it’s also e…

North Carolina-based artist Janet Orselli values secondhand materials. She knows items she finds in trash piles or purchases at flea markets w…

Lee Snelgrove wants you to care about public art. It’s been a high priority for him since taking over in 2013 as executive director of One Col…

The South Carolina Arts Commission announced today the retirement of Executive Director Ken May. A 33-year veteran of the organization, May sp…

Michael Dwyer’s paintings aren’t really about anything. That’s the point.

Cotton — plant, textile, and symbol — is analyzed in all of its positive and negative aspects in a new exhibit opening next week at the Univer…

If it’s possible to blend ruggedness and softness, or realism and dreamlike blurriness, that’s what’s happening in the paintings that artist a…