A Land Shaded in Melancholy Hues
The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999" connects the blues aurally and visually, and reveals how the South, like the blues, is full of contradictions: dark and woeful yet beauteous and jubilant.
"...Jitterbugging in a Juke Joint, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939, and Jonathan Postal's Wedding Day, New Orleans, hanging side by side..."
March 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires