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e show also covers shrinking rural
communities, traffic-jammed urban
communities, humans' relationships
with nature, Native American heritage,
undocumented immigration and LGBTQ
issues. "We wanted to talk about decay,"
Lash says. In a series of photographs by
William Christenberry taken over three
decades, kudzu swallows a small house
over time. "You touch on that hot, fertile,
humid landscape, but you also touch
on the fact that the South is full of rural
communities that are getting increasingly
smaller," Lash says.
e contemporary gallery's second floor
displays the music section of the exhibit,
with works depicting Elvis, jukebox joints
and jazz bands. You can see Andy War-
hol's take on Dolly Parton. A few iPads set
up with headphones allow museumgoers
to sit and listen to the 225-song, 13-hour
playlist the team curated to go with the
show. is month, as part of the Speed
Concert Series, the museum will host six
female singer-songwriters from the South,
in partnership with WFPK and the Cen-
ter for Women and Families.