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Archive Content from Aug 2010
08/27/10 Art Crush: Robert Gill, son of SCAD-Atlanta, toned and ready
Robert Gill, a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta, just completed a grueling nine-month thesis project titled Before or After Yourself that tried his body, mind, and skill in photography and digital media. Many thought he was crazy for enduring physical pain for the project, but now, with his newly svelte body, [...]
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08/24/10 To Do List
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08/23/10 Linda Armstrong’s Beach doesn’t greenwash the environment
Nightmares of dolphins and sea turtles choking on oil loomed over our collective sleep this summer as the BP oil spill bled endlessly into the crystal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Most of us were dependent on the media for images instead of seeing it for ourselves. The experience was rather surreal. Linda Armstrong’s [...]
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08/20/10 Two writers debate Chakaia Booker’s Sustain
The reviews below represent two opposing views. The first praises Chakaia Booker’s Sustain at the ACA Gallery of SCAD while the second criticizes the exhibition. Santiago Junca Chakaia Booker slices, bends, and reshapes tires to form beautiful intricate sculptures. Her abstract formations vary from organic blob-like creatures with tendrils to mirror-like frames and spinal structures [...]
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08/19/10 Through a Window of Paint revisits the genre of realistic landscapes
The Southern landscape, renowned in literature as a backdrop for social relationships, comes to the fore in a new exhibition titled Through a Window of Paint: A Sampling of Southern Realistic Landscape Painters at Swan Coach House Gallery. The show concentrates on highly realistic paintings while including a variety of styles. With 28 works by [...]
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08/18/10 Living Walls: Natives and newcomers share their thoughts
Update: BURNAWAY revisited the Living Walls murals in October of 2010. Click here to read what Santiago Junca and Karen Tauches had to say! One remarkable detail of the symposium portion of Living Walls occurred to me as I stood outside the auditorium. As I skulked about the courtyard of Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture [...]
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08/18/10 To Do List
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08/13/10 SlowExposures to host eminent judges for portfolio review
SlowExposures, the photography celebration in Pike County that focuses on images of the rural South, will offer its first photography portfolio review next month with an impressive panel including two luminaries from The New Yorker. Elizabeth Biondi, visuals editor at The New Yorker and the former director of photography at Vanity Fair, and Sylvia Plachy, [...]
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08/13/10 Work of Art: The Big Show, season finale commentary
To the dismay of some and the euphoria of others, Bravo’s ten-week pop-cultural experiment of bringing fine arts to the masses has drawn to a close. Work of Art began receiving lashings from the art world before the series even began, and I can’t say I completely disagree with some of the criticism. But as [...]
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08/11/10 From Disney to Neuschwanstein: This is not a fairy tale
Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail—Aby Warburg It’s summer, and certainly time for a vacation. Perhaps you find yourself in that icon of Americana, Walt Disney World. Look up. There, the centerpiece of Magic Kingdom rises: Cinderella Castle. Disney officials cite the architecture of Versailles and Loire Valley chateaus as sources for the castle’s design. [...]
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08/10/10 To Do List
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08/10/10 First impressions of Salvador Dali: The Late Work?
Click below to view footage from Salvador Dali: The Late Work at the High Musuem of Art. The exhibition opened Saturday, August 8, and continues through January 9, 2011.
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08/05/10 Work of Art: Natural Talents
If you asked me yesterday evening around 9:50PM which artists I thought were heading to Work of Art’s finale, I would have put my money on Miles, Nicole, and Jaclyn. But this week’s episode contained some surprises to say the least.
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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