Art

East St. Louis musician David Dee, a longtime fixture on the Midwest blues scene, has died. His musical resume was long. He performed with his vocal group David and the Temptations in the 1960s and later played with Howlin’ Wolf and Albert King.

“Confluences,” an exhibition of Faye Heavyshield’s work at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, includes new pieces that reflect on Cahokia Mounds and the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis will present three short operas, all by artists of color who’ve worked largely outside the opera world. The works address the roots of Black, queer ballroom culture; three important inventors who were Black women, and the Supreme Court battle over a rock band’s attempt to reappropriate a racial slur.

Art exhibition “Neuro Blooms” paints a picture of how different brains work — specifically those of people living with specific mental health conditions.

Kalaija Mallery, the new artistic director of the Luminary in St. Louis, wants the Cherokee Street art gallery to be a social hub for the neighborhood.

The Hawthorn becomes newest St. Louis Concert venue with free grand opening.

“Strange Familiars” is an exhibition of fabric sculpture at Craft Alliance in St. Louis that expresses the joy and difficulty of “having a marginalized body in the world,” artist Frankie Toan explained.

The Kranzberg Arts Foundation commissioned 20 artists to create large-scale murals on a stretch of Washington Avenue near where Midtown borders Grand Center in St. Louis.

Larry Morris of iLLPHONiCS is at the helm of a new festival in St. Louis that recognizes rising hip-hop artists.

A new Missouri Botanical Garden exhibition examines the complex relationship between sound and plants.