Memorial Drive is a collaborative series by BURNAWAY and ArtsCriticATL about the history of the arts in Atlanta. June 3, 2012, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the doomed Air France Flight 007 in which 106 of Atlanta’s leading arts patrons died at Orly Airport. Only two people out of 132 would walk away from [...]
Archive Content from Nov 2011
11/30/11 gloATL’s Float Creates an Urban Fantasy in a Place of Muck
If a group of artists can bring a sense of beauty and mystery to a combined sewer overflow facility, it’s fair to say that something extraordinary is happening. On November 19 and 20, 2011, at 2PM each day, the Atlanta-based dance company gloATL performed their new work Float on the Atlanta BeltLine, a weedy, gravelly, [...]
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11/29/11 Following the Publication of Noplaceness, What Happens Next?
This month Atlanta Art Now’s highly anticipated book Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape was published and made available for sale. Noplaceness is the first publication in what is to be a series discussing contemporary art with a focus on Atlanta visual artists.
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11/28/11 To Do List: Through December 4
See below for arts events through Sunday, December 4, 2011.
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11/28/11 One South to Another: Locating the Work of LaToya Ruby Frazier
In Ju Young Ban’s drawing Us (2009), two intricate and vibrant anthropomorphic forms made on separate sheets of paper are tethered together by a single delicate line. In Us Ban’s minute mark-making pulses with life, the forms charged with palpable energy and rich undulating color. Suggesting the connection between two people, or more abstractly two [...]
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11/25/11 Support BURNAWAY at Young Blood Gallery’s Black Friday Sale
Young Blood Gallery’s Black Friday Sale continues today, Friday, November 25, 2011, from 12noon to 9PM, featuring 25 percent off all sale items and sweet deals for the first 25 people through the door. It’s also a chance to pick up a limited-edition print from BURNAWAY’s Second Annual Fundraiser. These editions make excellent holiday gifts [...]
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11/25/11 MOCA Honors a Late Master of Pseudo-Objective Mysticism
“The sky is not empty,” states the caption next to a vitrine full of small pictures of communications towers and a notebook full of pencil scratchings. This is the laconic voice of Gretchen Hupfel. Of course, she was right. The sky is full of endless waves of invisible communications and chunks of flying metal. It’s [...]
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11/24/11 Dodge & Burn: The Goat Farm
From dance performances to secret restaurants, The Goat Farm has become a hidden-in-plain-sight hideaway for many local Atlantans. Built in 1889 as a cotton gin, the complex expanded over the years and has seen various uses, from munition manufacturing during World War I to artist studios and residences in the 1970s. Now the site is [...]
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11/23/11 Ben “Bean” Worley’s SYNTHESIZ Makes It Too Easy To Get This!
After seeing Ben Worley’s (a.k.a. Bean Summer) SYNTHESIZ at Get This! Gallery, I almost decided to simply copy and paste Jerry Saltz’s entire New York Magazine article, “Generation Blank,” as a review. Within the first few seconds of seeing Worley’s video work, I was reminded of one of the first lines of Saltz’s bashing of [...]
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11/23/11 Memorial Drive: The NAC and the 1970s Black Arts Movement
Memorial Drive is a collaborative series by BURNAWAY and ArtsCriticATL about the history of the arts in Atlanta. Ralph David Abernathy Memorial Park sits at the intersection of Formwalt Street and Abernathy Boulevard, near Turner Field. Artwork by Emma Amos that is titled We Will Not Forget (1996) graces that corner lot. Unfortunately, I think [...]
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11/23/11 No Ordinary Bull: Kate Javens at Marcia Wood Gallery
We coo and kiss and speak in baby voices to the domesticated animals in our care. So the one thing they may want the most for Christmas is not a tiny sweater, but a shred of dignity. Along comes New York painter Kate Javens, anxious to put a gleam of sentience in the eyes and [...]
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11/22/11 All Appropriation is Apropos
“We have a hunger for something like authenticity, but are easily satisfied by an ersatz facsimile.”—George Orwell Appropriation art began with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the turn of the century, got hot again in the 1950s with pop artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, then saw a kind of third-wave heyday in [...]
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11/22/11 Love Like a Devil’s Handshake Delivers Mesmerizing Performances
A devil’s handshake is a move in jiujitsu where an opponent is presented with an amicable gesture that turns deadly. On the night of Saturday, November 12, 2011, the Love Like collective gathered at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center to present Love Like a Devil’s Handshake, an evening of performances by Kirstin Pilar Mitchell, also [...]
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11/21/11 Artadia Winners Jason Kokfe and Rocio Rodriguez Chat With Us
Earlier this month, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue held the attention of the Atlanta art community captive as it announced the recipients of a total of $45,000 in grants to local artists. On November 2nd, Artadia, who supports local art scenes across the country with a collection of unrestricted award grants and a [...]
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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