Summer is almost upon us, but there’s still time to savor the sights and sounds of Spring in Nashville. Enjoy the final weekend of May, but take time this Memorial Day to honor those who gave their lives in service of country and others.
Image Credit: Detail of Susan Bee’s My Blue Heaven, 2018. Oil, enamel, and sand on linen, original size 30″ x 24″
Nashville Symphony
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix In Concert
Ongoing through May 26, 2019
Schermerhorn Symphony Center
The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park
Musicians Corner
May 24–25, 2019
Centennial Park
Frist Art Museum
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Opening May 24, 2019
Frist Art Museum
Film: Frida
May 24, 2019
Frist Art Museum
Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing
Ongoing through May 27, 2019
Connect/Disconnect: Growth in the “It” City
Ongoing through August 4, 2019
Frist Art Museum
Belmont University’s Department of Art & the Tennessee Arts Academy
My Blue Heaven: Works by Brooklyn-based artist Susan Bee
Ongoing through September 6, 2019
Leu Art Gallery
Parnassus Books
Saturday Storytime
May 25, 2019
Parnassus Books
The Fairgrounds Nashville
Nashville Flea Market
May 24–26, 2019
The Fairgrounds Nashville
Belcourt Theater
“Peter and the Wolf” and “The Golden Goose”
May 25, 2019
Belcourt Theater
Scarritt Bennett Center
Vespers & All That Jazz
May 26, 2019
Scarritt Bennett Center
Nashville Shakespeare Festival
Pop-UpRight Shakespeare at Fontanel
May 26, 2019
Fontanel Nashville
Fort Houston
Fort Fest
May 24–26, 2019
Fort Houston
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
Diana Al-Hadid Public Lecture and Art Tour
May 25, 2019
Derived from the Decorative
Ongoing through June 9, 2019
In Bloom: Works from Cheekwood’s Permanent Collection
Ongoing through September 1, 2019
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
Embodied: Mosaic Arts International 2019 Invitational
Ongoing through May 25, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
Refuting “Noble Savages”: Reflections of Nature in Ancient Mesoamerican Artifacts
Ongoing through May 25, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
The Arts Company
The Altered Image | Giving Up The Ghost
Ongoing through May 25, 2019
The Arts Company
David Lusk Gallery
Christina Renfer Vogel & John Salvest
Ongoing through May 25, 2019
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
Ground Floor Gallery + Studios
Fruit Punch
Ongoing through May 25, 2019
Ground Floor Gallery
COOP Gallery
Terry Thacker: A Theory of /Cloud/
Ongoing through May 30, 2019
COOP Gallery
Tennessee Arts Commission
Denise Stewart-Sanabria
Ongoing through June 7, 2019
TN Arts Commission Gallery, 401 MLK Jr. Blvd.
Red Arrow Gallery
In Between
May 11–June 15, 2019
Red Arrow Gallery
LeQuire Gallery
Juliette Aristides: Interiors and Still Lifes
Ongoing through June 22, 2019
LeQuire Gallery
Tinney Contemporary
ASHES TO SNOW New Work by Jane Braddock
Ongoing through June 29, 2019
Tinney Contemporary
Locate Arts and Zeitgeist
TEXTUREXTRA: Zipporah Thompson + Richard Feaster
Ongoing through June 29, 2019
Zeitgeist
Tennessee State Museum
Between the Layers: Art and Story in Tennessee Quilts
Ongoing through July 7, 2019
Tennessee State Museum
Galerie Tangerine
Wendy Walker Silverman: An Opal Ring and the Stories that Scared Me
Ongoing through August 9, 2019
Galerie Tangerine
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Little Big Town: The Power of Four Exhibit
Ongoing through June 9, 2019
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Exhibit | The Judds: Dream Chasers
Ongoing through July 14, 2019
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Exhibit | Emmylou Harris: Songbird’s Flight
Ongoing through August 4, 2019
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
American Currents: The Music of 2018
Ongoing through February 9, 2020
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
21c Museum Hotel
The SuperNatural
Ongoing through October 2019
21c Museum Hotel, 221 2nd Ave. N.
Know something we missed? Let us know at [email protected]
Edit: We originally listed the Jefferson Street Art Crawl as an event happening this weekend. They’ve moved to a once-every-other-month schedule, so we deleted that item. The Jefferson Street Art Crawl will return in June.