Revolve hosts visual arts exhibitions, performance art installations and esoteric music performances—a programming mix unseen anywhere else in this region—but revenue has always been a challenge.

Mindi Meltz has just published the final part of her “After Ever After” trilogy. The inspiration and larger question behind the series is right there in the title. Meltz wanted to explore what happens after the happily ever after.

Zines are the shortened name for fan magazines. The format came of age in the 1930s and hasn’t changed much since. Writing or drawing on paper, hand-stapling or twine-binding and short-run copies are still at the heart of the practice. Some here blur the lines with art books, which can take on a boundless variety of content and physical form.

Sound artist Laura Steenberge is performing Thursday night as part of a program at Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center.

The couple spent much of the pandemic collaborating on a new guidebook titled “Discovering the Appalachian Trail.”

While Kenn Kotara's work lives in abstraction, the artist said social-political exploration is always at play. It’s right there in the title of his new show—”Order in an Unruly Zoo.” It’s on view through June 10 at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts.

The invitation to perform at the (Re)Happening is a testament and homage to Susan Collard that her company, more than four decades after she founded it, still produces experimental work.

As COVID numbers drop and protocols loosen, theater and concert venue policies are all over the map. Some require vaccinations and masks. Others require neither. Some are strict enforcers of whatever policies they put in place, others not so much.

In the recording studio with Lena Machina of the Asheville goth rock band Secret Shame