Best Nashville-Themed Exhibition

The best Nashville-themed art exhibition this year didn’t include acoustic guitars, Johnny Cash or that building downtown — you know the one. Presence, which showed at the art gallery in the Hotel Preston for most of the spring, celebrated people like civil rights leader Diane Nash, Councilmember Sharon Hurt, and about a dozen black scientists and inventors. You might know Norf Art Collective for their stunning murals, but the artists — doughjoe, Woke3, ArJae and Keep3 — have individual practices as well, and Presence showed us what’s been happening in their studios while they’ve been making our city look so dope. ERICA CICCARONE

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