“The work felt like a kind of memorial device, one both ancient and modern,” wrote Daniel Culpan in Artforum in 2022, “the artist tuning into the murmuring frequencies of abandoned objects.” An old telephone, a milk crate, wires, beads. Culpan was describing a sculpture by Lonnie Holley, who was born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, and uses discarded stuff and oddities found in nature to make art that addresses history and injustice. Also a musician, Holley is self-taught, a natural. As he said in 2022, “We have to unlock the rules. The holy rules. . . . Holley. Hole-y. Holy.” Showcasing 70 works by Holley, this major exhibition is the artist’s first in the South. —Laura Jacobs