Art

Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola

Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

After All, It's Only a Game

After the Machine: Visual Arts and the Erasing of Cultural Boundaries

An Alphabet

American Icons: From Madison to Manhattan, the Art of Benny Andrews, 1948-1997

American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé

Approaching the Magic Hour: Memories of Walter Anderson

Art for the Middle Classes: America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s

Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980

The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History

The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History

The Art of William Edmondson

Assembling Art: The Machine and the American Avant-Garde

The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks

Barthé: A Life in Sculpture

Between God and Man: Angels in Italian Art

Black Cloud, White Cloud

Black Velvet Art

Cajun Mardi Gras Masks

Carl Gutherz: Poetic Vision and Academic Ideals

Clarence John Laughlin: Prophet without Honor

Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South

Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana

Conversations with Clarence Major

Cool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustom Kulture

Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters

d'Ohrs of Ohr: A Commemoration of the Opening of the Doors of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art

Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater

Dunlap

Dunlap (Limited)

Ed McGowin, Name Change: One Artist, Twelve Personas, Thirty-five Years

Fabergé: The Hodges Family Collection

Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon

Form and Fantasy: The Block Prints of Walter Anderson

Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain

Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson

The Four Dog Blues Band,: Or How Chester, Boy, Dog in the Fog, and Diva Took the Big City by Storm

French Art of Four Centuries

G. Ruger Donoho: A Painter's Path

Haitian Vodou Flags

Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection

The Holiday Yards of Florencio Morales

The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson

I Am a Craftsman: 40 at 40: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi with 40 of its Exhibiting Members

Illustrations of Epic and Voyage

Imari: Japanese Porcelain for European Palaces: The Freda and Ralph Lupin Collection

The Intelligent Eye, Reality Re-Seen: Recent Paintings by William Baggett

Jean Seidenberg: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art

The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections

Let It Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection

Lewis Hine as Social Critic

Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists

The Magic Carpet and Other Tales

Magnificent, Marvelous Martelé: American Art Nouveau Silver

Masterpieces of Fabergé: The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection.

Mildred Nungester Wolfe

Mirrors of Clay: Reflections of Ancient Andean Life in Ceramics from the Sam Olden Collection

Missing New Orleans

Mississippi Artist: A Self-Portrait

The Mississippi Story

Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole

On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton

On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City

On William Hollingsworth, Jr.

One World, Two Artists: John Alexander and Walter Anderson

Passage on the Underground Railroad

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty among Artists of the Thirties

Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen

Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: The Paintings of John Baeder

Reflections of Elegance: Cartier Jewels from the Lindemann Collection

Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art

A Spiritual Journey: The Art of Eddie Lee Kendrick

Stackhouse

To Paint and Pray: The Art and Life of William R. Hollingsworth, Jr.

Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakum

The Treasure of Ulysses Davis: Sculpture from a Savannah Barbershop

A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana

Vietnam Remembered: The Folk Art of Marine Combat Veteran Michael D. Cousino, Sr.

Walls of Light: The Murals of Walter Anderson

William Woodward: American Impressionist

Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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