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BILLY HOUGH, live-streamed "Scream along with Billy," at https://www.facebook.com/billy.hough1 JON RICHARDSON WITH PETER DONNELLY, live-streamed virtual performances at https://www.facebook.com/donnellyrichardson ERIC MAUL, live-streamed flute musical performances at https://www.facebook.com/ericmaulflute TIN PAN ALLEY: Virtual music events at https://www.facebook.com/tinpanalleyptown/ PATTY LARKIN, see live-streamed music and announcements by the Wellfleet-based singer, songwriter and guitarist. Visit https://www.facebook.com/PattyLarkinMusic/ VANCE GILBERT: Drive-in concert at 4 p.m. a...

Wandering Eye: Self-Taught Geniuses and a Coke from Norman Rockwell Editorial Staff  © Winfred Rembert / ARS. Eye, the remarkable life of the great self-taught artist  Bill Traylor is being celebrated with a feature-length documentary produced by Sam Pollard and directed by Jeffrey Wolf.  Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts is showing in select theatres and virtual cinemas (use code MAGTRAYLOR21 to claim your discount). This week  Curious Objects host Benjamin Miller sits down with Pollard and Wolf to discuss the artist and their film. Don’t miss the airing tomorrow . . . and brush up o...

Curious Objects: Bill Traylor on the Silver Screen, with filmmakers Sam Pollard and Jeffrey Wolf Editorial Staff Photograph by Horace Perry, courtesy of the Alabama State Council on the Arts. In April of 1853 a child was born into slavery on an Alabama cotton plantation owned by George Traylor. His first name was Bill and he would take the plantation owner’s last name for himself. A sharecropper and laborer for most of his life, in the decades since his death in 1949 Bill Traylor has become known to the world as an artist. Now, a new documentary tells Bill Traylor’s story on film for the...

(The following review is brought to you by longtime Athens Banner-Herald film writer Andrew Shearer. To support his work and continue seeing coverage of the local film industry like this, please consider an OnlineAthens.com digital subscription: www.onlineathens.com/subscribenow.)  Discovering a previously hidden talent, or finally having the time to develop a long-dormant one, are among the common occurrences that go along with retirement. Bill Traylor never had such a luxury in his life, but his decision to begin drawing at age 80 lead to a place of historic significance in the world of ...

Print Welcome to the Ooops I Forgot to Write the Newsletter edition of Essential Arts. I’m L.A. Times arts editor Craig Nakano filling in for columnist Carolina A. Miranda, who as you’ll see has been immersing herself in architectural solutions for people who are unhoused. This week has been bizzz-eee as California kicked its reopening into a higher gear, so there’s much to share. I’m sitting down to write at an hour when I’m usually in a seismic snore. My 2-year-old is asleep, the coffee is hot, the contact lenses are out and the glasses are on. Let’s do this.