Dear ATL, To continue the tradition we started with last year’s Best of 2008 feature story, BURNAWAY has recruited the talents of ten highly qualified, arts-savvy Atlantans to help ring the bells, bring in the fire, and shout the praises of the most inspiring arts events of 2009. Below you’ll find top picks by guest [...]
Archive Content from Dec 2009
12/21/09 Sarah Hobbs' Emotional Management at Solomon Projects
Tightly drawn shutters and obsessive arrangements are common to the subject of Sarah Hobb’s recent show titled Emotional Management, on view at Solomon Projects until January 9, 2010. Through seven photographs, Hobbs guides us from the public space of the gallery to view bizarre behaviors that have taken place within a private residence. Although the [...]
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12/18/09 To Do List
I’m sad to report that this will be the final events listing until January, 2010. Where did all that time go? As we bid farewell to the Year of Our Lord, 2009, please keep checking previous To Do Lists for recent shows that will reopen after the holidays, and feel free to add more visual [...]
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12/16/09 2D Tweet at Eyedrum
There’s no need to ever take another picture of a house, a dog, or a sunset. If you open up a magazine or an old newspaper, or if you do an image search online, you will find plenty of what you need. This is a symptom of our age: We hastily cut and paste things [...]
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12/15/09 Alan Moore plunders Weill and Brecht’s Threepenny Opera
Please welcome today’s guest writer, Edward Hall, who submits the following holiday book review. Authors have been “borrowing” from one another for centuries. For example, Cervantes wrote the second part of Don Quixote to challenge a literary pirate and assert primacy as the man of La Mancha’s originator. A far nobler form of literary piracy [...]
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12/14/09 Fahamu Pecou's Whirl Trade: Hip-hop vanity or vanitas?
With all the buzz I heard about the show, I really wanted to like Fahamu Pecou’s Whirl Trade at Get This! Gallery. His persona is fun and energetic, and he even sells t-shirts in bright colors that proclaim, “Fahamu Pecou is the Shit,” which makes me chuckle. As much as I wanted to like it, [...]
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12/11/09 To Do List
Breaking news from Stuart Keeler: On December 16, 18, and 21, the artist will perform An Aerge to Walk, a Situationist-inspired street performance designed to reclaim the city in the name of pedestrians everywhere. Keeler will superimpose a “drawing” on the urban landscape beginning at the intersection of Peachtree and Ponce by using a GPS [...]
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12/10/09 Marcel Breuer at Central Library and Museum of Design Atlanta
Modernist buildings in Atlanta have a proclivity towards neglect and disappearance. At a moment of political unrest over a famous Brutalist building, the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) hosts a beautifully designed traveling show about renowned architect Marcel Breuer, whose last great building happens to be our Atlanta Central Library. The museum reaches out to [...]
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12/09/09 Jabari Anderson's Ten Panthers: Extended edition
I’ve become a fan of DVD extras over the years. For that reason, I’ve provided a list of goodies loosely themed after Saltworks Gallery’s current exhibit. My review appears in today’s print edition of Creative Loafing. An excerpt: “But what does kung fu have to do with being black? Although Anderson’s mythology calls to mind [...]
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12/08/09 Photo Tour: Forever Green glimmers and fades away
If you missed the yuletide festivities at Forever Green this weekend, you can still catch Whitespace Gallery’s annual December Show, opening this Friday, December 11, from 7-10PM. Forever Green included Christmas trees composed of “every material imaginable, except live trees,” craft collectibles fashioned from recycled parts, and even a live fashion show. Too bad the [...]
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12/08/09 The art of exorcism
If you haven’t had the opportunity to see the classic horror film The Exorcist on the big screen, consider getting yourself to the Plaza Theatre tonight at 9:30PM. “Okay,” you may be thinking, “but why am I learning about this on BURNAWAY.org?”
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12/04/09 To Do List
It’s December and holiday fever reigns supreme. The art shows this weekend more than justify taking a break from your hectic last-minute-gift-giving routine. (Not to mention the gloATL performance and the latest Mergers and Acquisitions on Thursday.) Feel free to add your events for December 4 through December 10 in the comments below!
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12/03/09 Alex Kvares' Oh So Fail
There is something charmingly old-fashioned about the best drawings in Alex Kvares’ Oh So Fail, now on display at Beep Beep Gallery. Of course, that’s not intended as a backhanded compliment. I was surprised to find myself so enchanted by these quiet, neatly framed little works. I had seen images of the work online, but, [...]
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karley: nice!
Jared: Excited for the Bowman collection. She is someone to keep an eye on
ruth: What do you do with difficult lines of memory? Fold them into a san
Beth Lilly: I know! That's exactly the type of work I had in mind with the call f
Jason Francisco: Davis' bulletin boards seem to me actually to be photographs themselve