In Emily Dickinson’s 1129th poem, she admonishes would-be bearers of the truth to do so, but to “tell it slant.“ Honesty, rendered raw, is “Too bright for our infirm Delight” and thus is better conveyed with both circumspection and compassion, as “The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind—.” Honesty, filtered through [...]
Archive Content from Jun 2011
06/29/11 Photos and Quotes from Ten Hours of Sonic Generator’s SONICPalooza
Sonic Generator, an ensemble sponsored by Georgia Tech, performed a free ten-hour marathon of contemporary music called SONICPalooza at the Woodruff Arts Center on Saturday, June 25, 2011. Having no idea of what to expect, I was blown away by their musicianship. All members of Sonic Generator are professionals, and three of them (Tom Sherwood, [...]
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06/28/11 ARTSpeak: Atlanta Printmakers Make the Most of Partnerships
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 32: Jeremy Abernathy speaks with Terri Dilling of [...]
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06/27/11 To Do List: Through July 3
See below for arts events through Sunday, July 3, 2011.
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06/24/11 Art Crush: Helen Hale Dances Her Way Into Atlanta’s Heart
[Updated] Helen Hale has an aura. She sculpts and molds it with her hands, gesturing in swirls around her. You feel privileged to be on the edge of her bubble. Constantly moving yet quietly composed, contained and aware of her body and surroundings, it’s instantly apparent that Hale is a dancer. A native Atlantan, Hale [...]
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06/23/11 Four Coats Murals: An Alternative to Smiling Faces Holding Hands
Not too long from now, Atlantans will have four new murals to appreciate as they trek through various corners of Atlanta’s urban landscape. Four Coats Neighborhood Mural Project, the brainchild of Beep Beep gallery’s James McConnell, has pulled together four Atlanta galleries to curate a collection of public murals. As quoted on Four Coat’s website, [...]
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06/22/11 Camera Phone Anxiety: Reflecting on Photographic Technologies
Hipstographs: Experiments in Hi-Fi Lo-Fi, an exhibition currently on display at Gallery M in Castleberry Hill, showcases a collection of nearly 450 small, square photographs by 39 international artists. The images, densely packed into the small gallery space, were all taken exclusively by camera phones, mostly via the iPhone. Before walking into the gallery, I [...]
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06/21/11 Tragédie: Myths and American Dreams Gone Wrong at Beep Beep
Life is made of more tragedies than comedies due to circumstance, point of view, or environment. Children are often fed stories to help them learn lessons that parents hope they never have to use when they grow up. Some of these are fairy tales and fables, but they also include true stories of friends that [...]
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06/21/11 Hortus Occultus: A Magical Yet Familiar Architectural Setting
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel, The Secret Garden, created a secluded, magical landscape that explored the rejuvenating and enlivening powers of living things. With an equally uplifting and engaging collection of organic installations and mixed media sculptures, Sloane Robinson Cheatham, Susan A. Cipcic, and Shana Wood have created their own secret garden in the current [...]
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06/21/11 ARTSpeak: WaterDream opens at MODA this Sunday
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 31: Jeremy Abernathy speaks with Laura Flusche of [...]
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06/20/11 To Do List: Through June 26
See below for arts events through Sunday, June 26, 2011.
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06/16/11 Ciné 1.0: Mike Mills’s New Film Beginnings is Artful and Revelatory
When conceptual and graphic artist Mike Mills’s father was 75, he came out of the closet. After 45 years of a seemingly happy marriage, a successful career as a curator, and jobs as director of the Oakland Museum and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Paul Mills told his son he wanted to explore the [...]
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06/15/11 Questioning the Mayor’s Gift and the Mythology of Economic Crisis
Following on the heels of a proposed cut to the arts and subsequent responses from Atlanta artists, Mayor Kasim Reed appeared at last month’s Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund luncheon with a seemingly grand and heroic announcement. Gathered that afternoon with the knowledge that 50 percent of the Office of Cultural Affairs’ Contracts for Arts Services [...]
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06/15/11 MEGABLOCKS! Five Films about Fantastic Architecture at the High
Sometimes it seems that designer architecture is so far removed from the real struggles of people’s lives that it loses its humanity. One way in which it does this is by scaling things up to mega size. At the Rich Theatre, Modern Atlanta screened four short films from BIG Architecture and a single film about [...]
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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