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Painting students at the University School of Nashville spent last month working directly with an artist in New York. WPLN’s Susan Knowles reports.

In the midst of New York’s Harlem Renaissance, Fisk University invited a young African American artist to paint a mural for the library. Aaron Douglas squeezed trips to Nashville in between other big commissions in New York and Chicago. Because his best works were painted on walls, the starmaking machinery of galleries and museums ultimately bypassed him. Now a major traveling exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts promises Douglas some welcome visibility. WPLN’s Susan Knowles reports.

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Across the river from lower Broadway, next to the Shelby Street Bridge and in front of LP Field is a new kind of Nashville star – a giant red super nova. A public sculpture that looks like parts of a whirling spiral galaxy come to earth. Fabricated of industrial steel like the barges that used to launch from this part of the riverbank, Its the creation of Alice Aycock, known worldwide for her industrial sculptures. WPLN’s Susan Knowles reports.

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"Press one for English"- that command is becoming become almost second nature. Nashville’s Spanish-speaking community is booming and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts is working hard to attract them.  Opening tomorrow, "Mexico and Modern Printmaking" comes with dual language labels and a parallel exhibition created by Nashville high school students. WPLN’s Susan Knowles reports.

British Land Artist Chris Drury spent the month of October building a limestone chamber atop one of Nashville’s highest hills. Not only will this site-specific piece of public art last for generations, it also demonstrates patterns in nature common to the sky above and the earth below. WPLN’s Susan Knowles reports on the birth of The Star Chamber, a collaboration of astronomy and art.