You’ve probably seen Mike Germon at a local art opening or an indie rock show. He’s the tall, quiet guy wearing a baseball cap and sometimes snapping pictures. You might not know it, but Germon has his hands in plenty of Atlanta art happenings: curating shows at MINT Gallery, creating intricate collage work, designing t-shirts [...]
Archive Content from Jul 2011
07/29/11 Please Don’t Forget to Vote BURNAWAY for Best of Atlanta!
Creative Loafing‘s poll for Best of Atlanta 2011 closes at midnight this Saturday! Please vote for BURNAWAY for “Best Arts Blog” at the bottom of the second page of the survey, under “Poets, Artists & Madmen.” Although we consider our service to be more of an “online magazine” than a blog, the category is the [...]
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07/28/11 Trenton Doyle Hancock is Part Outsider Artist, Part Supergeek
With his massive chockablock canvases loaded with visual detritus and his jocular drawings that exhibit a tendency to dig into his own psyche, Texas artist Trenton Doyle Hancock’s exhibition at ACA Gallery of SCAD, We Done All We Could And None Of It’s Good, transports you to the id-factory of an artist’s studio, that physical [...]
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07/27/11 Flash Mobs: Artistic Movement or Marketing Ploy?
At the end of the spring semester, my friend Annie came over; we were working on final papers, but after a few minutes she called me over to look at something on the screen of her Macbook. Toby, her flaky German roommate, had sent her a video of the Black Eyed Peas performing I Gotta [...]
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07/27/11 Serial Killer Art: Censorship and John Wayne Gacy
Serial killer art is the ultimate outsider art. Traditional outsider art has an established place in the market, but what about more unconventional types? The infamous serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Richard Ramirez, for example, both made forays into art. Is there a moral imperative in place that prohibits displaying or selling their work? [...]
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07/26/11 ARTSpeak: Blake Beckham’s PLOT Shakes the Dirt at the Goat Farm
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 33: Jeremy Abernathy speaks with dancer Blake Beckham [...]
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07/25/11 To Do List: Through July 31
See below for visual arts events through Sunday, July 31, 2011.
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07/22/11 The Fate of History: The Old Archives Building Is Under Review
Without news of a preservation campaign, the old Georgia Archives Building was doomed for demolition as soon as the Georgia Building Authority could raise the funds. Since being abandoned for a new $30 million building in Morrow in 2003, the sleek megalith, seated just south of the State Capitol Building, has been awaiting its inevitable [...]
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07/21/11 How gloATL Killed Little Five Points with Liquid Culture
Last Friday the storefronts of Little Five Points became the site of Liquid Culture, a series of physical installations and movement-based interventions by the dance company, gloATL. Liquid Culture itself is a series that has included events at the intersection of North Highland and Glen Iris (the site of Sol LeWitt‘s often-forgotten 54 Columns) and [...]
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07/20/11 The Week I Became Kiki Smith’s Studio Assistant
The following first-person story was written just before Tuesday’s announcement: The High Museum of Art recently acquired 56 prints by Kiki Smith that will go on view in October of 2011. I didn’t know what I was walking into when Robert Brown, my professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta, asked me to [...]
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07/18/11 To Do List: Through July 24
See below for visual arts events through Sunday, July 24.
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07/14/11 National Black Arts Festival Fosters Reflection on Atlanta’s Future
When I moved to Atlanta from North Carolina in 2006, I was more excited about getting to know a city that gave birth to OutKast and Goodie Mob than studying for my MFA in photography, the reason I came here in the first place. At first I only paid half-ass attention to the professors because [...]
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07/13/11 The Fringe: On Art Workers and the Aesthetics of Labor
Currently on view for the first time at the Knoxville Museum of Art is Anne Wilson’s Local Industry Cloth, a collaboratively woven textile created during the Museum’s 2010 exhibition entitled Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave. The cloth, created entirely from donated fibers (often by mills facing closure), was produced over the course of three months, with the [...]
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07/13/11 Site Unseen at Spruill: Exploring Atlanta’s Unbuilt Architecture
Please welcome associate professor Dr. Benjamin Flowers of the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, today’s guest reviewer. The organizing premise behind Spruill Gallery’s Site Unseen is straightforward enough: a show of unbuilt work from the last decade by 10 Atlanta-based firms and designers. What is less obvious is whether, on the [...]
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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