Like Rome, Jerusalem, and other old cities where historical majesty coexists with the everyday realities of paying bills and finding a parking place, it’s easy to lose perspective here.

Most works of art, from simple illustrations to abstract sculptures to massively detailed paintings, undergo revisions before they’re revealed to the world.

At first glance, it just looks like a field of wheat in miniature. Or maybe a bunch of tiny brooms.

Art openings in Savannah typically involve chatter, cheese, and wine (and perhaps some whine as well).

As a connoisseur of art cars, those odd vehicles whose owners have chosen to paint wild colors or say, affix myriad objects upon, I have great admiration for Melissa Turner’s vibrant minivan.

Maybe you saw the intriguing postcards that circled around town a few weeks ago. Something called “The Fog” was opening at the Savannah Ogeechee Canal historic site, but other than a date and time, there was a vexatious lack of information. No website, no address, no explanation. Let it be clear that people who work on deadlines have little patience for the cryptic. When an event unaccompanied by crucial details ends up on a newspaper ...

No doubt, making art takes courage. Decent, affordable materials and a supportive community go a long way, too. When you’re a person who provides all that to struggling artists, you can pretty much expect to be worshipped. Robyn Reeder probably didn’t intend to become a Savannah icon. But how could she help it? As the proprietor of Primary Art Supply and Civvies New & Recycled Clothing on Broughton Street, she’s styled out studios and closets ...

For years, the Telfair Museums has held its annual Art Fair under a huge tent in Telfair Square.

IN A TIME when African Americans could be killed for learning to read and write, he boldly signed his work: “Dave.”

After six months of searching, the Telfair Museums have found a new director. Lisa Grove, currently deputy director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, begins Jan. 1. She replaces former Telfair director Steven High, who departed in May for the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Fla. We spoke to Grove last week. “I had never been to Savannah before,” the Kansas City native says of her recent interview experience. “It’s quite a beautiful place. What’s ...

As part of the ongoing Savannah Ocean Exchange, the Tybee Post Theater will be transformed into a giant aquarium this weekend.

Mary Lum: “Shifting Perspective” — Paintings and collages. Through Sept. 30 at SCAD’s Alexander Hall Gallery on Indian St. Reception and artist talk Sept. 23, 5:30 p.m.

While “Fashion’s Night Out” on Sept. 8 is an international event involving dozens of cities from New York to Seoul, some Savannah artists are doing the best they can to put a local imprint on it.

Atlanta artist Christina Bray's paintings are still-lifes that tell stories - not in words, not in the emotion or pain in someone's eyes (there are no people on her canvases), but in an eerily invoked memory of place.

A hundred and twenty five years ago, the oldest art museum in the South was officially opened – Savannah’s Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, as it was known.