Since moving to Atlanta from LaGrange, Georgia, in 1962, Annette Cone-Skelton has been an industrious member of Atlanta’s art community with a CV to shame the best of them. An accomplished visual artist who recently exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Cone-Skelton’s reach has touched the lives of [...]
Archive Content from Apr 2011
04/29/11 Toulouse-Lautrec’s fin-de-siècle inspirations reach the 21st century
The High Museum of Art’s exhibition, Toulouse-Lautrec & Friends: The Irene and Howard Stein Collection (currently on view through this Sunday, May 1, 2011), shows that Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries exploded the safety valve on the light-drenched paintings of Claude Monet and the previous generation. There is something for everyone in this rousing [...]
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04/29/11 Jessica Jackson Hutchins stacks up ugliness against the beautiful
Jessica Jackson Hutchins doesn’t so much erase Rauschenberg, as Rauschenberg erased de Kooning in the 1960s, but through her work she does unravel his visual logic. The Portland-based artist combines prehistoric-looking sculptural forms with pieces of modern utilitarian furniture, tossing aside the expressionist necessity to make life into art. Hutchins makes art back into life, [...]
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04/28/11 Chester 5000 XYV: Pornography and feminism in the graphic novel
The following book review examines a title that will be released May 25, 2011, and provides context to an ongoing dialogue surrounding pornography and art. Pornography and comics exist amid some mutual, widespread presumptions. One holds that neither can be art: Porn’s only purpose is to excite the libido, and comics are superheroes cover to [...]
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04/27/11 PULSE draws big circles, but falls short of vague ambitions
Currently on display at the Abernathy Arts Center in Sandy Springs is an exhibition that brings together nine relatively disparate artists under the loose theme announced by its title: PULSE: Artists Respond to Sound, Music, Rhythm, and Movement. While the premise could easily lend itself to multi-sensory installations, all but a single work is two-dimensional [...]
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04/26/11 ARTSpeak: gloATL’s new dance, Chapter III: This Is a World
Click the player above to listen now, or click here to download the audio file. Special thanks to AM 1690, The Voice of the Arts, our partners in producing ARTSpeak with BURNAWAY. The radio program broadcasts over the airwaves every Tuesday between 8-8:30AM and between 6-6:30PM. Episode 23: Paul Boshears speaks with Lauri Stallings and [...]
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04/22/11 Machinery and mystery at ATHICA’s The Way Things Work
On any given day, an average person interacts with dozens of machines, objects, structures, and systems whose inner details they understand little to nothing about. Keys open locks, blenders turn solids to liquids, and ceilings position themselves anywhere from eight to 15 feet above our heads and, stubbornly, stay there. Human beings are complex creatures [...]
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04/22/11 Introducing Esoteric Lore, a new collective for art and empowerment
Esoteric Lore is a collective of female African American artists from across Atlanta who are focusing on rebuilding the image of black women in the United States. Members such as Taryn Lee Crenshaw, Corinne Stevie Francilus, Nikita Gale, Michelyah, Crystal E. Monds, Iman Person, Faatimah Stevens, and Elizah Turner are seeking ways to, as worded [...]
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04/21/11 Artadia: 5 Cities 41 Artists leaps beyond clichés of second-city angst
Just what is it that makes Atlanta’s art so different, so appealing? Or, for that matter, what about Houston’s or Boston’s? Various incarnations of this question are posed in the essays that introduce each chapter of 5 Cities 41 Artists: Artadia 08/09. The book is the first in what will be a biannual publication produced [...]
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04/20/11 Passione Italiana, a striking showcase for MODA’s new space
Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) has thrown open their doors at 1315 Peachtree Street to debut a sleek new space and attitude. After national design firm Perkins + Will offered the new location to MODA in early 2010, the museum quickly snapped up the opportunity and opened soon after in February of this year. An [...]
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04/19/11 Interview: David Hale and Kris Davidson’s Medicina will travel
If Young Blood Gallery’s current exhibition, Medicina, brings to mind any one word, it is “organic.” With its images of woodland creatures overlaid with kaleidoscopic geometric patterns, bees’ nests, and an overall apothecary-like aesthetic, Medicina definitely feels like a return to nature.
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04/19/11 ARTSpeak: Danielle Roney’s magical realism at Kiang Gallery
Click the player above to listen now, or click here to download the audio file. Special thanks to AM 1690, The Voice of the Arts, our partners in producing ARTSpeak with BURNAWAY. The radio program broadcasts over the airwaves every Tuesday between 8-8:30AM and between 6-6:30PM. Episode 22: Alana Wolf speaks with artist Danielle Roney [...]
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04/18/11 To Do List: Through April 24
See below for arts events through Sunday, April 24, 2011.
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