Best Historical Exhibition

"Express," Arkady Shaikhet

Historical art exhibitions can often be stuffy affairs filled with works that claim important provenances but don’t always excite contemporary eyes. But the Frist’s The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography and Film wasn’t that kind of show. The exhibition demonstrated how new technologies and artistic imaginations can inspire each other when artists first get their hands on a new medium. It also offered fascinating examples about the role that image-making plays in cultural identity and sense of place. The exhibition even spilled outside the Frist’s walls with a finely curated mini-festival of early Soviet cinema that popped up on screens all over Nashville. Even just the vintage movie posters made this one well worth gallery admission. JOE NOLAN

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