Picasso Comes to Hendersonville
🖼️ Picasso in the suburbs · Casada/Cothren pardoned · New police precinct opens · Much more!
Good afternoon, everyone. This is your last weekend to catch a hidden-gem Picasso exhibit out in Hendersonville... Trump pardons the embattled duo Glen Casada and Cade Cothren... And much more!
Veteran's Day Screening November 11th, we're hosting a screening at NuMynd Studios of Call Sign Courage, a documentary about the current Under Secretary of the Air Force, Lt. Col. Matt Lohmeier, blowing the whistle on Marxism in the military. RSVP here.
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Hendersonville’s Monthaven brings the modernist master Picasso to Tennessee
From Jerod Hollyfield
The antebellum mansion on a hill sprawls into a neighboring apartment complex where Hendersonville ends and Madison begins. Like a miniature Cheekwood, it seems like the last place one of the state’s most dynamic arts organizations would call home. But since early September, Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center has been home to “Unknown Picasso: Selections from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection.” Thankfully, Middle Tennesseans have one more weekend to see the best art exhibition in the region in the last few years.
Known as much for his tumultuous lovelife as the cubist art he pioneered, Picasso’s career spanned the better part of the 20th century. However, the lithographs on display at Monthaven demonstrate the artist's versatility–one that goes far beyond the asymmetrical faces that entered the pop-culture lexicon to such an extent they have become borderline stereotypical. As the exhibit proves, Picasso was as much traditionalist as trailblazer, creating realist portraits, sketches that could pass for New Yorker cartoons, and the heavy-hitting cubism of his Blue period and beyond.
The decades-long battle to control Picasso’s estate and his horrendous record as a romantic partner have nearly overshadowed his artistic legacy, but the works on display paint an intimate portrait of a father and husband who fomented the counterculture while enamored with the family around him.
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HEADLINES
- 🚔 MNPD opens new Southeast Precinct in Antioch. Eighty new officers will oversee about 73 square miles of South Nashville, including parts of the Percy Priest Lake region, reducing response times and relieving the strain on the South and Hermitage precincts.
- ⚖️ Trump pardons Casada and Cothren. The former Tennessee house speaker and his one-time chief of staff will receive full, unconditional pardons after being convicted of several counts, including conspiracy, bribery, fraud, and money laundering. You may recall that country star John Rich made an appeal to President Trump on Cothren’s behalf over social media in May.
- 🔎 Early Friday, a man was fatally shot by MNPD while officers were responding to a call about a suicidal individual at the Greyhound Lines bus station in Nashville. No weapon was found on the victim. TBI is investigating MNPD officers after the use‐of‐force incident.
- 👮♂️ Nashville is getting a new Homeland Security Task Force. Yesterday, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee Robert McGuire introduced the task force alongside federal and state leaders who announced the indictments of 38 individuals, including eight violent MS-13 gang members.
- ☎️ ICE to open a 24-hour call center in Nashville. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s facility will operate 24 hours a day and will handle up to 6,000–7,000 daily calls to assist law-enforcement agencies in locating unaccompanied migrant children.
- 🏚 Nonprofit helps Nashville homeowners facing code violations. Rebuilding Together Nashville is partnering with city leaders to assist elderly and economically disadvantaged residents by fixing up their properties so they don't face fines and court cases.
DEVELOPMENT
- Plaza Mariachi to Sell for $13.45 Million (Banner)
- Long-planned Midtown hotel project sees movement (Post)
- Trump might be eyeing Nashville for development (Post)
- West End Avenue residential building listed for sale (Post)
THINGS TO DO
View our calendar for the week here.
📅 Visit our On The Radar list to find upcoming events around Nashville.
🎧 On Spotify: Pamphleteer's Picks, a playlist of our favorite bands in town this week.
👨🏻🌾 Check out our Nashville farmer's market guide.
TONIGHT
🎸 Bryan Adams w/ Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo @ Bridgestone Arena, 7p,
$90+, Info
🎸 Luke Bell - The King is Back Record Release Celebration & Tribute Performance @ Grimey's, 5p, Info
🎸 Viagra Boys @ Marathon Music Works, 8p, $91.80, Info
🎻 Verdi’s Requiem with the Nashville Symphony Chorus @ Schermerhorn Symphony Center, 7:30p, $29+, Info
🎸 Briston Maroney Presents: Paradise! (Night 3) @ The Blue Room, 6:30p, $45.50, Info
🪕 The Cowpokes @ Acme Feed & Seed, 12p, Free, Info
🍀 Live Irish Music @ McNamara’s Irish Pub, 6p, Free, Info
🎸 Kelley’s Heroes @ Robert’s Western World, 6:30p, Free, Info
SATURDAY
🎸 Shakey Graves / Solo Show @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, 8p, $46, Info
🎸 John Mailander's Forecast and Lindsay Lou @ Eastside Bowl, 8p, $20, Info
🎻 Verdi’s Requiem with the Nashville Symphony Chorus @ Schermerhorn Symphony Center, 7:30p, $29+, Info
🎸 So Long and Thanks For All the Bands (Cover Set) @ The Cobra, $8p, $5, Info
🪕 All-Star Bluegrass Night @ Station Inn, 7p, $25, Info
🍀 Live Irish Music @ McNamara’s Irish Pub, 6p, Free, Info
🎸 Kelley’s Heroes @ Robert’s Western World, 6:30p, Free, Info
SUNDAY
🎸 Sun Room @ The Blue Room, 7p, $26, Info
🪕 Bluegrass Jam @ Station Inn, 7p, Free, Info
+ a night for musicians and singers from all over the world to gather and enjoy making music together
🪕 Sundays Between with Easy Green @ Tennessee Brew Works, 1p, Info
+ a bluegrass celebration of the music of the Grateful Dead
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