Visual Arts

From Michael Jackson’s origin story to Katrina shelters to ‘One Tree Hill,’ excavating America from the bottom up

Orlando Shakes’ God of Carnage uncovers the raucous savagery beneath the veneer of civility

Mad Cow’s Drowsy Chaperone takes you to a Jazz Age Narnia

Memoirist Nick Flynn (“Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”) reads Oct. 18, Oct. 25 and Oct. 28

In 2001, Nickel and Dimed got rapturous reviews for its exposure of the invisible poor; 10 years later, the groundbreaking investigation feels like business as usual

A trickle of snapshots from the day the towers fell accumulates into a relentless flood of memory

Nathalie Chikhi’s childlike constructions awaken glee

Retrospective show brings warmth to a calculated motif

Eatonville’s Zora Neale Hurston Festival prepares for major changes

Douglas Witmer’s meditative works on wood and paper

Postmodern jargon muddies the waters of this visually pleasing photo exhibit

Urban Rethink plans Skype discussion with Dawn Weleski of Pittsburgh’s Conflict Kitchen, “a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with.”

Ten ways to stay busy until Mad Men returns

Mad Cow’s latest may not be the best of all possible worlds

Stephen Shore exposes the dark roots of an icon

Janet Macoska shot the golden gods of the golden age of rock

Winter Park Playhouse mashes up the movies